As the pneumonia epidemic caused by novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues, Hubei, the hardest-hit area, is facing the mounting task of preventing and controlling the spread of the epidemic.

The spread of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has drawn wide public concern. To win the battle against the epidemic, infection prevention and control is fundamental while tracing down the source is the key.

In face of the Wuhan virus outbreak, Xiangtan Water Company affiliated to CECEP focuses on prevention and control efforts while securing water supply to pull its weight as a central state-owned enterprise and demonstrate its sentiment to the people when crisis comes.

On January 30, CECEP held a Party committee meeting, a chief executives’ meeting and an interim meeting of the board of directors. The meetings decided to, with support from its subsidiaries CECEP Ecotech Co., Ltd. and China National Environmental Protection Group, donate 30 million yuan (RMB4.3 million) to Hubei Province, including 24 million yuan (RMB3.5 million) to Wuhan and 6 million yuan (RMB861,000) to Xianning and other cities, to help the province’s efforts in preventing and controlling the pneumonia epidemic caused by a novel coronavirus. Additionally, the group company also planned to donate protective clothing, masks and other protective materials in batches to Wuhan, Xianning and other cities.

After the outbreak of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus, the Party committee of New Era Health Industry (Group) Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of CECEP, immediately held an enlarged meeting to convey General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on epidemic prevention and control work as well as the spirit of the meeting of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau on the issue, and arranged work of epidemic prevention and control. The group’s leadership required its frontline production enterprises to immediately allocate urgently needed materials and quickly join the battle against the epidemic.

In the face of the fast-spreading epidemic of pneumonia infected by novel coronavirus throughout the country, and following the unified deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and the requirement of the Party committee of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the Party committee of CECEP has taken the epidemic prevention and control as the paramount task at present, and mobilized, deployed and strengthened related work in an all-round way. Seven medical waste disposal enterprises of CECEP Ecotech Co., Ltd. launched emergency plans as more than 500 staff members worked through the holidays to fulfill their duty. As the “angel” behind the “angel in white,” the medical waste disposal enterprises are firmly taking on the heavy task of safeguarding public health.