Yuan Zhiming: Strengthen the research on prevention and control technology and drug reserves of emerging infectious diseases

Beijing BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua): CPPCC National Committee member Yuan Zhiming: to strengthen technical reserves and drug prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases research

China News Service reporter Ma Furong

"Good knowledge, technology, drugs and personnel reserve, is an effective way to deal with infectious diseases.

"We should realize that the struggle between humans and infectious diseases is a long-term process.

Yuan Zhiming believes that humans cannot control when infectious diseases will come, but they can turn "passive" into "active".

Quick response is inseparable from the accumulation of basic research and reserves of knowledge, talents, and technology.

Yuan Zhiming introduced, the new crown pneumonia outbreak, thanks to pre-coronavirus research in the field of accumulation and high-level biosafety laboratory platform and technical support, Zhong Keyuan Wuhan receive pneumonia of unknown causes where the virus in clinical samples, the rapid completion of The virus identification, isolation, and sequence determination, and timely sharing of the virus sequence with the world, laid the foundation for the later development of detection technology and vaccine design and development, and bought time for the world to fight the epidemic.

Based on this, facing a more complex and ever-changing biosafety situation and huge pressure on the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, Yuan Zhiming called for the launch of the national basic research and key core technology research plan for the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases, and the formation of national knowledge, technology and drugs Reserve system.

He suggested establishing a number of national and regional laboratories for emerging infectious diseases, and relying on the high-level biosafety laboratories that have been built and will be deployed to establish infectious disease research in North China, East China, Central China, South China, Northeast China, and Northwest China.

"With a plan and a platform, someone needs to do it.

On the other hand, it is necessary to develop rapid, efficient and accurate detection and screening technologies for pathogens, and to screen some effective drugs to contain the virus, so as to prepare for the development of vaccines.

When it comes to technology research and development, he recommends that researchers closely cooperate with companies in accordance with the requirements for testing, drug and vaccine product research and development.