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Xi stresses President affirms support for WHO resolve to Emphasis placed on world health in his addressing the opening of the Chinese people now are also con The president also said that he World Health Assembly, the WHO’s cerned about the situation in the hopes the two sides will work togeth talks with Myanmar, Bangladesh leaders governing body. neighboring country. er closely to implement the fruits of eliminate When speaking with his Myan China has donated antiepidemic his state visit to Myanmar in January. By MO JINGXI public health security, President mar counterpart, Xi said China will materials to Myanmar and sent two While making ongoing efforts to [email protected] Xi Jinping said. continue to provide firm support groups of medical experts to fight contain the virus, Xi called on the poverty Xi made the remark in phone and assistance within its capacity the virus shouldertoshoulder with two sides to steadily promote China will continue to support conversations with Myanmar Pres to Myanmar in accordance with its Myanmar’s medical workers. exchanges and cooperation in all the World Health Organization ident U Win Myint and Banglade needs. This fully shows the paukphaw areas and push for positive By MO JINGXI in Beijing playing a leading role and join shi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina The Myanmar government and (fraternal) friendship between the progress from the ChinaMyanmar and ZHANG LI in Nanning hands with other countries to on Wednesday night, two days aft all sectors of society offered a two peoples and explains the spirit Economic Corridor project. win the battle against the novel er he called for building a global hand to China after the COVID19 of a community with a shared future President Xi Jinping has urged coronavirus and defend global community of health for all when outbreak, Xi said, adding that the between the two countries, Xi said. See Ties, page 3 efforts to ensure that the targets and tasks of poverty elimination are completed with high quality amid the COVID19 pandemic. Not a single ethnic group will be left behind in China’s efforts to build a moderately prosperous soci ety in all respects this year, he said. Xi made the remarks in a recent instruction on the elimination of poverty of the entire Maonan ethnic group. The Maonan are one of the coun try’s 28 ethnic groups with a small population. About 70 percent of the Maonan, or 64,500 people, live in Huanjiang county, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Huanjiang officially withdrew from the national list of impover ished counties this month. Based on the Maonan people’s poverty alleviation situation across the country, the ethnic group as a whole has risen above poverty. Xi said he was glad to know that the Maonan ethnic group has elimi nated its poverty, as the living condi tions of villagers have significantly improved. He called the poverty elimination of many ethnic groups in recent years an important achievement in China’s antipoverty work. The Maonan people should consider poverty elimination a new starting point for a better life and continue with efforts to make their lives more prosperous, Xi A news conference of the third session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference is held in Beijing on Wednesday, one day before said. the session’s opening. It was the first time a news conference was held via video link at the two sessions, in this case as part of antipandemic efforts. ZOU HONG / CHINA DAILY Given that China has come to a crucial period of securing a decisive and complete victory in poverty elimination, it is especially impor Spokesman rebuts slander over COVID19 response, aid to others tant to proceed with firm confi dence and concrete action, he said. By WANG QINGYUN or accusing China of trying to step as soon as possible and save more of which only “a tiny minority” had [email protected] up its geopolitical clout by helping people’s lives, and that the interna defects. Agenda See Resolve, page 3 other countries fight the pandemic, tional community would restore Guo also dismissed the accusation China dismissed accusations on Guo said. order as soon as possible, he said. that China covered up outbreak Inside Wednesday from some foreign politi The Chinese government has Guo said China’s efforts reflect its information, leading to the pandemic 3 pm The third session of the cians who smeared and slandered its rebutted such accusations, Guo said, sense of responsibility as a major spreading in other countries, saying 13th National Committee of Comment, page 11 efforts to fight COVID19, saying such adding that authoritative experts and country and that “it makes no sense China has briefed the international the Chinese People’s Political attempts will fail. international organizations, such as and is very narrowminded to community in an open, transparent Consultative Conference Guo Weimin, spokesman for the the World Health Organization, have accuse China of propagandizing or and responsible manner. opens. third session of the 13th National also voiced their disagreement. China trying to take global leadership”. China took the initiative to inform US urged to Committee of the Chinese People’s has lent assistance to other countries Regarding the quality of China’s the WHO and other countries and 9:40 pm First news conference Political Consultative Conference, with sincerity, Guo emphasized. medical supply exports, Guo said the regions of the outbreak as early as of the third session of the 13th made the comment at a livestreamed China cherishes the support it Chinese government has “zero toler Jan 3, and shared the virus’ full National People’s Congress sever official news conference in Beijing. received from many countries when it ance” for defective products, and the genome sequencing with the inter starts. The spokesperson for The accusations result from their was at the height of the outbreak and government departments have adopt national community on Jan 12, soon the session will take questions domestic political needs, trying to is supporting other countries hit by ed strict measures to ensure quality after it was isolated, he said. on the session’s agenda and exchanges shift responsibilities or ideological the pandemic to the best of its ability, exports. Doubts over quality had Since suspending departures work of the NPC. prejudice, Guo said. such as by providing materials, shar many causes, such as different quality from Wuhan on Jan 23, China has Those politicians have been polit ing disease control experience and standards in China and other coun been sharing COVID19 information with island icizing the pandemic, hyping claims dispatching medical teams, Guo said. tries and incorrect use of the products, daily in various ways, including Inside By ZHANG YANGFEI that the novel coronavirus comes China did all this hoping that those he said, adding that China has export news conferences, to help in the and CAO DESHENG from China and the city of Wuhan countries would contain the outbreak ed a large amount of medical supplies, pandemic fight, he said. Editorial, page 10 The Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it would take counter Ready to get to work measures against the United States NATION VIEWED AS KEY PLAYER for its gross violation of the one China principle and the stipula tions of the three joint IN REFORMED GLOBAL STRUCTURE communiques, adding that Wash ◆ ington must accept responsibility Observers say China wellplaced to fill void in financial system for the consequences. The ministry’s reaction, pub Editor’s note: The world faces ing to the Organization for Economic lished in a statement on its web huge challenges during the COVID Cooperation and Development. site, came in response to US 19 outbreak and maybe even great One of the primary focuses of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s er ones when it is over. Here, in the Bretton Woods was to restart the statement congratulating Taiwan 11th part of a series titled “One global economy after the crippling leader Tsai Ingwen on her inaugu World, One Fight”, we look at how effects of World War II. ration to a second term as “presi countries can work together to International Monetary Fund, cre When the pandemic is over, the dent” of the island, which is an fight the virus and meet challenges ated following the Bretton Woods world will again face significant integral part of China. when the pandemic ends. Agreement reached 76 years ago in macroeconomic challenges, par Beijing has expressed strong New Hampshire, the United States. ticularly unprecedented and esca indignation toward and con By ANDREW MOODY The agreement came at a time lating debt levels. demns the US officials’ related [email protected] when the US economy accounted Benn Steil, author of The Battle of acts, which have grossly interfered for about 50 percent of global GDP Bretton Woods: John Maynard National People’s Congress deputies from Hubei province disembark with China’s internal affairs, the any observers are ask and the US dollar had absolute Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the after their arrival in Beijing on Wednesday. The third session of the statement said. ing whether the global primacy over the international Making of a New World Order, one of 13th NPC opens on Friday. CHEN JI / FOR CHINA DAILY institutional infrastruc financial system. the most comprehensive accounts See Island, page 8 ture needs major However, within the next 10 years, of the 1944 conference, said any Mreform to cope with challenges posed developing and emerging econo reform of institutions would © 2020 China Daily All Rights Reserved Vol. 24 — No. 7189 Inside by the novel coronavirus pandemic. mies, including China’s, will account require exhaustive negotiations. The world continues to be for 60 percent of global GDP on a pur A member of the • Editorial, page 10 shaped by the World Bank and the chasing power parity basis, accord See Reform, page 2 Asia News Network • Comment, page 11