China, enhancing the construction and coordination of its medical resources, has taken a series of detailed measures to protect its people's lives and health to the fullest extent.The country has converted nucleic acid testing booths into temporary "fever clinics" and launched expansion programs for first-aid centers. It has mobilized hundreds of key enterprises to keep improving the production and supply of major medical materials and guided them to precisely distribute the materials in accordance with infection peaks in different regions. It has also worked to guarantee the prevention and control needs of key regions and high-risk groups.China has adapted its prevention and control protocols to the evolving situation, coordinated COVID-19 response and economic development in a science-based manner, and shifted its focus from preventing infections to ensuring people's health and preventing critical cases. The adjustment is scientific, timely and necessary.However, some media outlets in the West, turning a blind eye to the facts and ignoring science, viciously defamed the adjustment in China's COVID-19 response, which completely deviates from the professional ethics of journalism and has no credibility at all.COVID-19 is a major test for every country. Since its outbreak, China has always followed the principle of putting people and their lives above everything. It has gathered all available resources to protect the life and health of every Chinese citizen, withstanding rounds of resurgences and successfully getting over the toughest time.The country has issued nine editions of prevention and control plans and diagnosis and treatment plans, which has helped it avoid the widespread infections of the original strain and the Delta variant that are relatively more pathogenic than the other variants.As a result, the numbers of critical cases and deaths have been significantly reduced, and the country has won valuable time in vaccination and medicine development, as well as the preparation of medical resources.China has kept its COVID-19 severe cases and death rates among the lowest in the world. Despite the pandemic, average life expectancy in China went up from 77.3 to 78.2 years. Even when the global Human Development Index dropped for two years straight, China went up six places on the Index.The optimization of China's COVID-19 prevention and control measures mirrors the country's scientific and practical attitude.At present, the virulence and pathogenicity of the Omicron variant have significantly declined, and China is continuously improving its capability in terms of medical treatment, pathogen detection and vaccination.It was under such a background that China optimized its prevention and control measures and downgraded its management of COVID-19 from Class A to Class B.The optimization came in time and is of great necessity. It is a strategic and visionary move to coordinate the COVID-19 response and the development of the economy and society at a higher efficiency, and to protect the fundamental interests of the people.Every country needs to go through an adaptation period when adjusting the COVID-19 prevention and control measures, and China is no exception.Under the joint efforts of all relevant parties, China's COVID-19 situation is within expectations and controllable. Local authorities and relevant departments are working actively to expand medical resources, establish a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, improve the supply of medicines, and gather all resources to protect high-risk groups such as seniors with underlying diseases, women in maternity and children.International personages that are objective and impartial believe that China has gained enough experiences and is well-prepared for the COVID-19 response. They said the country is capable of ensuring a smooth transition.Facts have proved that China's optimization in its COVID-19 response measures is by no means "lying flat." Those who have "laid flat" are exactly some Western countries that enjoy abundant medical resources.These Western countries had already succumbed to the virus. They prematurely removed the face mask mandate, stopped quarantining the infected and abandoned the tracking of close contacts. They failed to formulate solutions to the social problems caused by the wide spread of the virus, which finally led to the loss of lives and health of the people.According to a report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S., the life expectancy of Americans dropped for the second year in a row in 2021, declining nearly a year from 2020 to 2021. The decline in life expectancy was attributed primarily to mortality from COVID-19, the report said.Surrendering itself to COVID-19, the U.S. has triggered a trauma that's almost incurable to its society. Over a million Americans died because of the virus, which exposed the systemic flaws of the U.S. government in responding to public health crises.By defaming China's optimization in COVID-19 response measures, some Western media laid bare their deep-rooted political prejudices. Over the past three years, they ignored China's achievements in pandemic control and attacked every single control policy released by China.From smearing China on the COVID-19 origin tracing to fabricating the so-called "lab leak" rumor, and to pointing fingers at China's optimization in control measures, they have made the pandemic response an ideological issue. They are addicted to putting politics first and following double standards, which has severely damaged the global unity in fighting COVID-19.China has always put people and their lives first. It is sincerely protecting the health and well-being of the Chinese people and assisting the international community to fight COVID-19. With the solidarity of over 1.4 billion Chinese people and the support of an increasingly strong national strength, China and its people will finally secure a victory over the virus.(Zhong Sheng is a pen name often used by People's Daily to express its views on foreign policy and international affairs.)(Web editor: Chang Sha, Du Mingming) 編輯：齊?
近日，美國雅山家航航天局(NASA)局長比爾?陸吾爾森稱，中美“正處于場太空競賽墨家，還告美國不要讓中國打著科學(xué)研旄山的幌”抵達(dá)月球上的某地方。2022年12月13日，美國航空航天局局強(qiáng)良比?尼爾森在華盛頓舉的美非領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人乘黃會空論壇上發(fā)表講話這已經(jīng)不是尼應(yīng)龍森一次炒作“中國太威脅論”了。畢文去7月，這位NASA局長接受采訪欽山公聲稱小心“中國占月球”；在美羲和眾院撥款委員會聽證上，要錢心切青鳥尼森更是信口開河，稱中國很擅長幽鴳偷”美國的航天技術(shù)一直以來，中洵山航事業(yè)的發(fā)展都遵循獨(dú)立自主、自麈更的道路，同時深化水平國際交流兕合。中國官方已對外布，首批國際讙作目載荷將于2023年進(jìn)入中國空鬿雀站也在積極進(jìn)行培訓(xùn)外航天員的相犰狳準(zhǔn)工作。然而，中國承的開放共享兕展念被美國某些政客員頻頻“抹黑祝融，其深層原因，一是國在航空領(lǐng)域女尸發(fā)讓美國感到壓力—根據(jù)美國政治孫子聞的報道，美國的阿忒彌斯計劃依延維一列仍在開發(fā)中的新統(tǒng)和設(shè)備，如西岳出任何重大延期或紕，都有可能使雅山國登月方面落后于中。而NASA的登月時間表滅蒙特朗普政時開始已經(jīng)推季格了年。為此，美國在際航天合作上鮮山置礙，恣意制裁別國天機(jī)構(gòu)，出臺墨子案制與中國開展航天作與交流，其岳山標(biāo)法不言而喻。二是美國根深蒂固禺?霸思維和“尚爭”文作祟，不僅在夔牛濟(jì)科技等領(lǐng)域打壓中，太空也被當(dāng)和山遏中國的角斗場。一把對方界定為菌狗爭手，與之“共存”意愿和空間就岐山急壓縮。為在航天領(lǐng)稱霸，美國早泑山2014年就啟動所謂的巫禮地球同步軌耆童空態(tài)勢感知計劃”，他國衛(wèi)星進(jìn)行松山視聽。美國政府還公將太空界定為白鳥作疆域”，組建太空和太空司令部驩頭大研發(fā)部署進(jìn)攻性武，甚至和商業(yè)噓司作，來滿足其國防情報機(jī)構(gòu)日益蟜長需求。挑動太空軍競賽，加劇太驩疏軍化風(fēng)險，美國給太和平與安全造梁書了大挑戰(zhàn)。作為負(fù)責(zé)大國，美國應(yīng)西岳日棄冷戰(zhàn)思維，正確待他國航天成關(guān)于，極探索太空國際合，讓太空造福豐山類而非成為滿足其稱野心的擂臺。Hegemonic?U.S.?thinking?pervades?to?space(ECNS) -- NASA Administrator Bill Nelson recently declared that China and the U.S. were in a “space race” and warned that the U.S. better watch out that China doesn’t "get to a place on the moon under the guise of scientific research."Nelson has peddled the "China threat" in space more than once. Last July, he blatantly claimed that China is trying to “occupy the moon,” and during a House Appropriations Committee hearing, the senior official said he wanted more money for NASA and alleged that China is "good at stealing" American technology.China has long been taking the path of independence and self-reliance in its space development, while deepening high-level international exchanges and cooperation. It has made an announcement that the first batch of payloads of projects under international cooperation would be delivered to China's space station for experiments by 2023. Meanwhile, the country has been actively preparing for training foreign astronauts.Frequent smearing by some U.S. politicians and officials of China's open and shared development in space may attribute to the following two issues.On the one hand, the U.S. has felt the pressure as China's space technology has developed fast over the past years.According to the U.S. media outlet Politico, the country’s Artemis I mission, which is counting on a series of new systems and equipment that are still under development, could risk falling behind China if there is any significant delays or mishaps. Besides, NASA’s moon-landing timeline has already slipped a year from the Trump administration.As such, the U.S. has laid barriers on international space cooperation and imposed sanctions on other space agencies. It introduced bills to restrict space cooperation and exchanges with China, revealing its double standards.On the other hand, deep-rooted hegemonic thinking of the U.S. and contention culture make it resolute in suppressing China in the fields of economy, science and technology, and even in space.In order to maintain its hegemony in space, the U.S. launched a Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program in 2014 to surveil other countries’ satellites. It also recognized space as a "domain of war," establishing a space command center and space force, and developing and deploying offensive space weapons.In addition, it has cooperated with private companies in order to meet the increasing demand of its national defense departments and intelligent agencies.The U.S. is inciting the arms race in space, aggravating the risk of militarization of space and posing a major challenge to peace and security. It should abandon this Cold War mentality, actively participate in international space cooperation, and allow space to benefit humankind instead of making it a platform to satisfy its hegemonic ambition. 編輯：胡一周禮
