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
生命安全和身体健康，是人民群众的基本需求和普遍愿望。中共十八大以来，习近平始终高度重视人民健康安全，在不同场合多次发表关于保障人民健康安全的重要论述。新冠肺炎疫情发生后，以习近平同志为核心的党中央高度重视，迅速做出部署，全面加强对疫情防控的集中统一领导。2020年1月25日，农历正月初一，中共中央政治局常委会召开会议，专门听取新冠肺炎疫情防控工作汇报，习近平主持会议并发表重要讲话，强调“生命重于泰山”。实际上，自疫情发生以来，他已经多次作出重要指示批示，要求各级党委和政府及有关部门把人民群众生命安全和身体健康放在第一位，把疫情防控作为当前最重要的工作来抓，采取切实有效措施，坚决遏制疫情蔓延势头。
生命重于泰山，即人民生命高于一切。具体而言，就是要坚持以人为本、生命至上，不惜一切代价抢救生命、救治患者；就是要不遗余力做好各项防控措施，“宁可十防九空，不可失防万一”；就是要坚持其他工作安排都要为人民群众生命安全和身体健康让路，按照党中央决策部署全面动员、全面部署、全面加强防控工作。“生命重于泰山”彰显了人民利益高于一切的重要原则，体现了中国共产党全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨。
