On May 11, the theoretical section of The People's Daily published an article entitled Strengthening the Strategic Science and Technology Powers in the Public Health Field by Ren Xiaogang and Fang Li, from the Beijing Research Center of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and BJAST Base.

The article points out that strengthening the strategic science and technology powers in the public health field is very important to the improvement of our country's reacting capacity and level of major public health events. In addition, strengthening the strategic science and technology powers in public health field is also a significant way and an inevitable choice to improve the capacity and level of our country's response to major public health emergencies.

The article underlines several focal points regarding the improvement of the strategic science and technology powers in public health field; To gain profound understanding of the core ideas leading the development of strategic science and technology powers in public health field; To innovate the system and mechanism of carriers relating to strategic science and technology powers in public health field; To establish the talent-system of strategic science and technology powers in public health field; To promote the collaboration of strategic science and technology powers in public health field.