CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Thursday, August 20, 2020 | 3 TOP NEWS Premier hails role of China’s health workers Medical staff at front line of anti-COVID fight receive profession’s highest honor By WANG XIAOYU The association said that a num- and MO JINGXI ber of courageous and selfless medi- cal workers have braved danger and Premier Li Keqiang underlined committed themselves to battling on Wednesday the importance of the virus amid the outbreak, includ- further pushing forward the reform ing renowned clinical experts and and development of the country’s grassroots doctors. medical and healthcare sectors. According to the list, over 30 win- Governments at all levels and ners battled the pandemic in Wuhan, related departments should put Hubei province — the city hit hard- people first, build a strong team of est by the virus in China, and more medical workers and improve the than 20 of them were sent from oth- environment of respecting medical er regions to assist the city’s fight. workers in the whole of society, he One of the them is Zhang Dingyu, said in an instruction given on Chi- president of Wuhan Jinyintan Hos- na’s Medical Workers’ Day. pital and deputy director of Hubei Li said that he hoped medical Provincial Health Commission. As The traditional “sunning of the Buddha” ceremony with thangka paintings is held during Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery in Lha- workers will consistently improve an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis sa, Tibet autonomous region, on Wednesday. Shoton Festival, which literally means the “Yogurt Banquet Festival”, is one of the most their skills and the quality of servi- patient himself, Zhang has earned important festivals for the Tibetan ethnic group. TANG BIN / FOR CHINA DAILY ces to make a new contribution to widespread respect for steadfastly the building of a healthy China and remaining at his post, although his guaranteeing people’s health. disease has rendered both his legs Also on Wednesday, a symposium increasingly powerless and will celebrating this year’s Medical eventually paralyze him. Huawei’s PC business gains momentum Typhoon: Workers’ Day was held at the Great Zhang Wenhong, head of the Hall of the People in Beijing. infectious disease department at Delivering a speech at the sympo- Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, also By CHENG YU MateBook laptops, as well as smart ance, a telecom industry association. Floods, fallen sium, Vice-Premier Sun Chunlan received the honor. As the leader of [email protected] electronic goods including eye- The newly unveiled MateBook X said that since the start of the novel the Shanghai expert team for the wear and earphones. is also embedded with a multi- coronavirus pandemic, large num- treatment of COVID-19 cases, Zhang Huawei Technologies Co has Industry experts said the move screen collaboration function, in trees, signs bers of China’s medical workers is beloved by the public for his frank achieved “high­speed growth” in the is part of Huawei’s “smart” growth which users can directly operate have put themselves forward and and accessible style of speaking and personal computer business despite strategy to develop a full range of smartphone applications on their made outstanding contributions to has been praised for his role in economic uncertainties globally, a products amid the changing global computer. block roads achieving progress in epidemic pre- spreading scientific knowledge top executive said on Wednesday, as economic situation. “The most valuable move by vention and control. about the virus. the Chinese tech giant strives to With a starting price of 7,999 Huawei is not regarding its various From page 1 So far, nearly 80,000 COVID-19 Guo Yanhong, an official with the boost its portfolio of products. yuan ($1,158), MateBook X, the products, but is in its ability to get patients, with more than 10,000 of National Health Commission’s medi- Richard Yu Chengdong, CEO of company’s new flagship personal these products to support each Thousands of passengers were them in severe or critical condition, cal administration and supervision Huawei’s consumer business group, computer, adopts what the compa- other. In this regard, few compa- affected when Guangzhou-based have recovered in China. bureau, said that various disease pre- said on Wednesday that Huawei’s ny claimed to be the industry’s first nies in the world have truly formed China Southern Airlines canceled This has fully shown the dedica- vention and control measures must personal computer business has floating full screen. Featuring a such a strong ecosystem,” he said. 75 flights to or from Guangzhou, tion and superb skills of the coun- be resolutely implemented to solidi- been growing rapidly and accounts high screen-to-body ratio of 90 per- A report by third-party database Shenzhen and Zhuhai because of try’s medical workers, Sun said. fy the hard-won achievements in for 16.9 percent of the country’s cent, the new laptop is smaller firm Sigmaintell showed that in the typhoon. The majority of the 80 recipients curbing the virus, and to win a deci- total personal computer market. than a sheet of A4 paper and the first quarter of this year, com- But ferry services across the of this year’s Chinese Physician sive victory against the epidemic. “We aim to bring Huawei’s inno- weighs just one kilogram. puter giant Lenovo Group and US Qiongzhou Strait restarted on Prize — the highest honor for the vative technologies and designs “The future giant in electronic tech firm Dell Technologies Inc Wednesday afternoon. The ferry, country’s medical workers — have Contact the writers at from smart terminals and smart goods cannot just be a smartphone took the lead in online sales of per- linking Guangdong and Hainan participated in fighting the COVID- [email protected] hardware to the personal comput- manufacturer. It should establish a sonal computers in China. provinces, had been suspended 19 epidemic on the front line, er field,” he added. complete ecosystem to provide Meanwhile, Huawei’s sales of starting at 7 pm Tuesday. according to the Chinese Medical Inside Huawei entered the personal com- users with a variety of products and personal computers in China grew Some sections of highway were Doctor Association, which released puter business only four years ago. services and allow cross-terminal rapidly over the same period, temporarily closed by flooding or the list on Wednesday. Editorial, page 10 Yu made the remarks as the multi-screen collaboration,” said reaching around 550,000 units and fallen tree branches. Heavy down- smartphone maker launched on Xiang Ligang, director-general of notching up year-on-year growth pours flooded some sections of Wednesday its latest series of the Information Consumption Alli- of 96 percent, the report said. roads and streets in the urban areas in Zhuhai. High winds uprooted trees and blew down billboards, damaging parked vehicles. Ministry seeks improved Sino-US ties Zhang Hongwei, a civil servant who lives in Zhuhai’s Xiangzhou district, said he was awakened by By MO JINGXI issues, while confrontation goes The spokesman also the storms at about 6:30 am. [email protected] against the common interests of announced that Indonesian For- “I saw many umbrellas that had the international community,” eign Affairs Minister Retno Mar- been blown away, as well as many Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao said at a regular news brief- sudi started a three-day official tree branches broken by the strong Zhao Lijian on Wednesday urged ing in Beijing. visit to China on Wednesday. gales. A neighbor was drenched by a small number of US politicians He noted that the current Chi- Retno is the first foreign minister the rain when she got home from to listen to the international com- na-US relationship is suffering to visit China “as virus control is shopping,” he said. munity, abandon their Cold War serious difficulties due to the US being conducted on an ongoing Zhang said he was told to stay mentality and put bilateral ties government’s unilateral provoca- basis”, said Zhao, adding that this home as the city government shut back on the right track. He said tions and a series of statements shows the “high importance” that down its departments as well as that a steady and sound relation- and actions that interfered in Chi- both countries attach to bilateral companies and schools on ship between China and the Unit- na’s internal affairs, undermined relations. Wednesday. A man surnamed Tang (second left), who has recovered from COVID-19, ed States serves the immediate China’s interests and gravely According to Zhao, State Coun- Zeng Fanwei, owner of a small greets doctors at Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, on and future interests of both coun- harmed bilateral relations. cilor and Foreign Minister Wang restaurant, said electronic equip- Wednesday, which was Medical Workers’ Day. ZHAO JUN / FOR CHINA DAILY tries and the world. Some US politicians have been Yi will hold talks with Retno dur- ment was damaged by flooding, Zhao made the remarks after fanning anti-China sentiments ing her visit. The two sides will causing him losses of more than United Nations Secretary-Gener- and provoking a rivalry to serve exchange in-depth views on bilat- 10,000 yuan ($1,450). al Antonio Guterres said on Tues- their own interests, Zhao said, but eral relations, anti-epidemic coop- “It will take me more than a doz- PLA: Washington’s moves in day that the China-US such regressive actions have been eration and joint construction of en days to repair and restore the relationship “has never been as and will continue to be criticized the Belt and Road.