Pang Xinghuo, Deputy Head of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Beijing CDC), introduced Beijing’s strategy of “preventing the coronavirus from re-entering the country to cause a new epidemic” at an online seminar the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group had convened to share among member cities China’s experience in the fight against COVID-19. Pang focused on the issues of concern to participants. Citing a wealth of data and cases, she detailed what Beijing had done from six aspects: strict control over imported infection, reducing human mobility and gatherings, community management, case detection and treatment, preparation of resources, and promotion and instructions.

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About 170 leaders and head officials from more than 40 cities around the world, including New York, London, Paris and Berlin, joined the seminar. C40 Executive Director Mark Watts, Mayor of Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski, Mayor of Heidelberg Eckart Würzner and others spoke highly of Beijing’s achievements in combating COVID-19. They expressed their willingness to learn from and draw on the city’s practices in coordinating epidemic containment with work and production resumption and in supporting small and medium-sized enterprises to get through this tough period. Officials from Guangzhou and Nanjing also introduced their experience in battling the coronavirus and answered questions from foreign attendees.

After the seminar, the Foreign Affairs Office of Beijing organized experts from the Municipal Health Commission and Beijing CDC to answer the questions C40 had collected online. The virus respects no borders and the whole world shall join hands to overcome difficulties. Guided by the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind, Beijing will further step up information sharing and cooperation with foreign cities on multilateral platforms.

The C40 is an international organization of global cities initiated by London in 2005 to promote low-carbon development, emission reduction and climate change response. Its members include metropolises such as New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. In 2017, the organization, as an overseas NGO, set up its representative office in Beijing, and the city has since worked effectively with it as an observer.

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