Saving Lives Is of Paramount Importance.

Safety and health are the basic needs of the people. Xi Jinping attaches great importance to these two issues, and has given instructions on ensuring people's health and safety on different occasions. 

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19), the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core has made thorough arrangements and strengthened centralized and unified leadership over the prevention and control of the epidemic. On January 25, 2020, the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting and listened to a report on epidemic prevention and control. Xi Jinping presided over the meeting and emphasized that "saving lives is of paramount importance."

He demanded Party committees and governments at all levels to give top priority to people's safety and health, and take epidemic control a most important work in the immediate future. He required effective measures to be taken to contain the outbreak.

"Saving lives is of paramount importance." – This echoes the CPC's mission of serving the people whole-heartedly and its principle of taking the interests of the people above everything else. It is the CPC's pledge to save lives and cure patients at all costs. It will spare no effort and adopt all measures necessary to combat the epidemic. For the current time, other work should make way for the efforts to protect the safety and health of the people. Implementing the decisions by the CPC Central Committee, the whole country will take comprehensive actions in social mobilization, deployment, and prevention and control of the epidemic.

生命重于泰山

生命安全和身體健康，是人民群眾的基本需求和普遍愿望。中共十八大以來，習近平始終高度重視人民健康安全，在不同場合多次發表關于保障人民健康安全的重要論述。新冠肺炎疫情發生后，以習近平同志為核心的黨中央高度重視，迅速做出部署，全面加強對疫情防控的集中統一領導。2020年1月25日，農歷正月初一，中共中央政治局常委會召開會議，專門聽取新冠肺炎疫情防控工作匯報，習近平主持會議并發表重要講話，強調“生命重于泰山”。實際上，自疫情發生以來，他已經多次作出重要指示批示，要求各級黨委和政府及有關部門把人民群眾生命安全和身體健康放在第一位，把疫情防控作為當前最重要的工作來抓，采取切實有效措施，堅決遏制疫情蔓延勢頭。

生命重于泰山，即人民生命高于一切。具體而言，就是要堅持以人為本、生命至上，不惜一切代價搶救生命、救治患者；就是要不遺余力做好各項防控措施，“寧可十防九空，不可失防萬一”；就是要堅持其他工作安排都要為人民群眾生命安全和身體健康讓路，按照黨中央決策部署全面動員、全面部署、全面加強防控工作。“生命重于泰山”彰顯了人民利益高于一切的重要原則，體現了中國共產黨全心全意為人民服務的根本宗旨。