The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Leading Group for Epidemic Prevention and Control convened a meeting Monday to study the important speeches made by General Secretary Xi Jinping at recent important meetings. Wu Zhenglong, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, presided over the meeting.

Studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and important instructions is a long-term political task and a process of continuous advancement and deepening, according to a statement released after the meeting.

We must learn and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on Jiangsu’s work, practice the work arrangements of the Provincial Party Congress, and strive to promote the modernization of the new Jiangsu by safeguarding the fact that the Party has established Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and defined the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
We must work hard to study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on comprehensively deepening reforms, promote scientific and technological self-reliance and scientific and technological system reform, electricity market system reform, adhere to and strengthen the party’s overall leadership of primary and secondary schools, strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics, and the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage so as to empower high-quality development, the statement said.
At present, the global spread of the COVID-19 is still in the stage of continuous development, the mutation of the virus has increased the uncertainty of epidemic prevention and control with increasing risk of imported cases, said the statement.
Factors such as the large number of population movements during the New Year's Day and Spring Festival holidays and the easy recurrence of the epidemic in winter will increase the pressure on epidemic prevention and control, according to the statement.
Local governments and government departments at all levels must enhance their political stance, implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions, implement the spirit of the Party Central Committee, the State Council’s decision and deployment and the national teleconference on epidemic prevention and control, strengthen the prevention and control of the epidemic, protect the lives and health of the people, provide strong support for the overall development of the whole province, and create a good environment for the successful convening of the 20th Party Congress, said the statement.
More efforts are needed to strictly prevent the import of infected cases from foreign countries and the sporadic resurgence of domestic cases, strengthen the requirements for prevention measures such as checking health code, temperature measurement, and wearing masks for key areas and key populations, strengthen the management and control of personnel from high-risk areas, continue to go ahead with vaccination, and build a strong prevention and control network for grassroots communities and rural areas, the statement said.