As the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the world, China has recently been facing mounting pressure of imported cases from abroad. In the meantime, outbreaks in clusters at home have shown the characteristics of multi-point and frequent occurrence in&\\;nbsp\\;fairly&\\;nbsp\\;wide&\\;nbsp\\;areas. The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting last week and once again stressed the need to constantly put people and their lives first, adhere to scientific, accurate and dynamic COVID clearance, and curb the spread of the pandemic as soon as possible.However, as Delta, Omicron and other coronavirus mutants broke out and fast spread around the world, especially since mid-2021, some Western countries have criticized China for continuously implementing a dynamic zero-Covid policy when they themselves actually fail to effectively cope with the pandemic. The distorted attacks on China by Western countries mainly focus on the so-called aspects of fighting the pandemic at any cost, disrupting the global supply chain, and hindering international business exchanges. In essence, these attacks represent the incomprehension, distortion and misreading by these Western countries about the values of putting people and their lives first upheld by China, as well as about the national governance system and basic national conditions of China.&\\;nbsp\\;China insists on putting people's life safety and health first.Some Western media outlets have published articles claiming that the cost for China to maintain dynamic zero-COVID&\\;nbsp\\;is too high.In fact, China's dynamic zero-COVID policy does not pursue zero infection, but to bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control as soon as possible. According to Wang Hesheng, the first director of China's National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention, the goal of the dynamic zero-COVID policy is precisely to pursue the desired effect at the lowest social cost, which is in line with China's national conditions and the law of science. Since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, China has long put people's life safety and health first. In doing so, the country has indeed paid a high price. "\\;However, life is always supreme. This is a price that is worth paying and which we must bear, because economic losses can be made up later but human life will not come back once it is lost,"\\; said Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. While continuously deepening the understanding of the new coronavirus and thoroughly mastering the pattern of epidemic prevention and control, China has already adopted categorical treatment measures for COVID-infected persons in its new COVID diagnosis and treatment scheme. One of these measures is to implement centralized isolation management for minor cases. In addition, antigen testing is added as a supplementary test, and residents do not need to file for antigen self-testing. In the latest guidelines for the implementation of nucleic acid tests, the scope of testing has changed from "\\;all citizens"\\; to "\\;areas"\\;, with more emphasis on scientific and accurate targeting. Chinese leaders have called for efforts to achieve the maximum effect of epidemic prevention and control effect at the least cost.&\\;nbsp\\;China coordinates the relationship between epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development to maintain the stability of the global industrial chain and chains.In an article it published in February this year, the Wall Street Journal&\\;nbsp\\;claimed that China's dynamic zero-COVID policy&\\;nbsp\\;would bring supply chain risks and pose a threat to the global economy.China was in fact the only major economy that achieved positive growth in the world in 2020. Its GDP grew by 8.1% in 2021. In the government work report delivered in March this year, China set a national GDP growth target of about 5.5% for 2022, while maintaining that the long-term fundamentals of its national economy would not change. The country will implement a chain safeguard and stabilization program for leading enterprises in a bid to maintain the safety and stability of the industrial and supply chains.China is also the largest trading partner of more than 120 countries and economies in the world. In 2021, China's goods import and export trade volume exceeded US$6 trillion for the first time, setting a historical high. Over the past 10 years, China’s contribution to global economic growth has stabilized at about 30%.In the view of Zhang Yansheng, Chief Researcher at China Center for International Economic Exchanges, China is closely connected with the rest of the world, and every development in China has an important impact on the rest of the world. The dynamic zero-COVID policy shows the adaptive adjustment mechanism of China's approach to epidemic prevention and control. Tian Yulong, Chief Engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, remarked that the current economic, especially industrial growth figures show that China's epidemic prevention and control policy is beneficial to the industrial and supply chains. Only by adhering to this correct epidemic prevention and control strategy can China take the lead in resuming work and production in the world and safeguard the stability and safety of the industrial and supply chains.&\\;nbsp\\;Governments at all levels in China consolidate responsibilities for ensuring public safety. Last week, the VOA website alleged that the zero-COVID policy has affected people's work and life in all aspects.The core of the dynamic zero-CPVID policy lies in quick response and accurate prevention and control. Taking Tianjin, a municipality directly under the central government, as an example: the speed of the four all-citizen nucleic acid tests conducted in January this year got faster and faster, with the fourth test of more than 10 million people taking only 4.5 hours. Moreover, the lockdown areas were accurate to merchants and apartments. &\\;nbsp\\;By upholding the dynamic zero-COVID policy, China has consolidated the responsibilities of local regions, departments, organizations and individuals, implemented the requirements of early detection, early reporting, early isolation, and early treatment, carried out epidemic prevention and control work in a strict and practical way, strengthened epidemic prevention and control guidance for key areas, and quickly controlled outbreaks in clusters."\\;I am very pleased to see that in the most difficult stage of epidemic prevention and control in Shanghai, the whole city has been operating normally, except that the lives and work of personnel in the control areas are only partly affected,"\\; noted Zhang Wenhong, Director of the National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases.Zhang Wenhong said that as the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic deepens, the dynamic zero-COVID policy&\\;nbsp\\;has been more clearly implemented, and the connotations of the so-called "\\;dynamic"\\; actually showcase greater governance wisdom and diversity. &\\;nbsp\\;China safeguards normal operations for foreign-funded enterprises according to specific epidemic prevention and control needs Financial Times&\\;nbsp\\;claimed that many foreign-funded companies in China complain about the dynamic zero-COVID policy because many of their production activities rely on foreign experts coming to China to adjust and upgrade their machines.Zong Changqing, Director of the Foreign Investment Department of the Ministry of Commerce, said that China has taken necessary entry-exit restriction measures according to the actual epidemic prevention and control needs in the country. However, this is not only an embodiment of the philosophy pursued by China to put people and their lives first, but also the need to safeguard the normal production and business activities of various market entities, including foreign-funded enterprises. "\\;China will do its best to meet the necessary personnel mobility needs of foreign-funded enterprises by opening up fast channels and chartered direct flights,"\\; said Zong Changqing. China will dynamically adjust its entry-exit policy for foreign personnel according to changes in the epidemic prevention and control situation, so that normal personnel exchanges can resume as early as possible. Since epidemic prevention and control became the normal, China has adhered to the policy of “guarding against imported cases and preventing a resurgence of the outbreak at home”, and continuously raised the level of zoned, graded and differentiated accurate prevention and control. This has enabled the country to quickly and effectively respond to outbreaks in clusters in some regions, highlighting the prominent advantages of the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.In 2021, China's actually used foreign direct investment topped RMB1 trillion for the first time. In the first two months of this year, the amount increased by 37.9% year on year. At the same time, China has provided a cumulative total of more than 2.1 billion Covid-19 vaccines to other countries. "\\;China's aid is also helping the international community to overcome the pandemic and restore the normal order as soon as possible. This is the only way to better promote exchanges between China and the international community,"\\; said Guo Weimin, spokesman for the Fifth Session of the 13th&\\;nbsp\\;National Committee of the CPPCC.&\\;nbsp\\;Author: Xinhua Daily Telegraph