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From left: Cao Bin, deputy director of the National Center for Respiratory Medicine, and vice­president of the China­Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing; Han Qide, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pathophysiologist and honorary president of the China Association for Science and Technology; Cheng Jing, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and medical biophysicist; Wu Yiling, CAE academician, doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and founder of Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical. PHOTOS BY ZHU XINGXIN / CHINA DAILY

Zhong Nanshan (left), a prominent respiratory disease expert and CAE academician, chats with Wang Chen, CAE vice­ president and president of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences , at the opening ceremony of the 2020 Annual Con­ gress of the Chinese Thoracic Society in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Oct 23.

Focus on scientists who tamed virus In this year’s battle to contain COVID­19, Chinese medical scientists have always been on the front line and made important contributions. China Daily photographer Zhu Xingxin zooms in on some of the scientists at the forefront of the struggle.

Clockwise from left: Huang Jiefu (center), hepatobiliary surgery specialist and director of the China National Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, at a public event promoting organ donation in Beijing in June. Zeng Yixin, CAS academician, oncologist and deputy director of the National Health Commission; Yang Weizhong, vice­president of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and executive president of the School of Population Medicine and Public Health at Peking Union Medical College.