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1. Various of Zhang Wei, patient of COVID-19 having physical theaphy treatment after off ECMO
2. Various of doctors, nurses treating to patients
3. Various of doctors, nurses looking at CT scan, CT scan
4. Doctors, nurses treating patient
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Wei, patient of COVID-19:
"I want to thank so many people, including the medical workers who saved me, my wife and my country. Really, without their help, I couldn't have made it."

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6. Wuhan Tongji Hospital
7. Board of oaths of medical workers to save lives
8. Various of medical workers treating patients
9. Infusion tube
10. Medical workers working in front of screen
11. Cardiac monitor

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12. Various of Zhang Wei, patient of COVID-19 having physical theaphy treatment after off ECMO

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13. Aerial shot of Huoshenshan Hospital
14. Board reading Huoshenshan Hospital
15. Various of President Xi Jinping greeting medical workers at Huoshenshan Hospital
16. Various of screens showing medical workers treating patients
17. Various of President Xi Jinping greeting medical workers at Huoshenshan Hospital
18. Screen showing medical workers, patient greeting back

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19. Aerial shot of city view
20. Aerial shot of highway interchange

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21. Various of construction site of hospital
22. Aerial shot of hospital
23. Aerial shot of Jianghan temporary hospital

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24. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Yan Yilong, deputy director, Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University (partially overlaid with shots 25-26):
"We pooled so many social resources. This kind of strength, speed and scale of China shows our utmost efforts to save every patient. Just as Xi put it, the safety and health of the people always come first. It embodies a people-centered concept, that is, the original aspiration of the Communist Party of China is to bring benefits to the people."
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25. Photo of ECMO donated by Xiangya Hospital

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26. Various of medical workers treating patient in ICU
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27. Aerial shots of skyscrapers

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28. Workers disinfecting street
29. Files
30. Social workers
31. Various of community building
32. Social workers inquiring residents' information
33. Screen showing forms of people with fever

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34. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zheng Gongcheng, professor, Renmin University of China (partially overlaid with shots 35-36):
"We have done our best to save patients ranging from newborns to centenarians at all costs, exempting their expense of diagnosis and treatment. We have proceeded from
the principle that people's lives and health come above everything else. This is the advantage of our system and it also shows the strength of our social security."
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35. Aerial shot of hospital
36. Various of meeting of China's Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Diagnosis and Treatment Plan in process
37. Medical workers treating patient
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38. Aerial shot of Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital
39. Monitor screen
40. Various of medical workers treating patients

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41. Facade of Wuhan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
42. Various of cured 90-year-old patient of COVID-19 walking out of hospital

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43. Various of ambulances on road

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44. Various of medical workers transferring cured 100-year-old patient in stretcher

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45. Various phone showing doctors treating infant infected by COVID-19 after delivered

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46. Infusion tube
47. Elder patient of COVID-19 having meal

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48. Aerial shot of Wuhan City
49. Tower
50. Flag of China

The fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in China shows that the country has put the lives, safety and health of the people in the first place, according to experts and patients.

Zhang Wei, one of the critically ill patients in Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University in central China's Hubei Province, sustained life with the help of ECMO for 25 days.

For more than 70 days medical workers had spared no efforts and managed to save him.

Zhang said he is grateful to so many people.

"I want to thank so many people, including the medical workers who saved me, my wife and my country. Really, without their help, I couldn't have made it," said Zhang.

It is just enormous resources put by the country and the hard work of the medical workers that have saved many patients like Zhang.

After the outbreak of the epidemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed repeatedly that the people's interests, lives and health should always come first and utmost efforts should be made to save as many patients as possible, charting a clear course of action for the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic.

The country organized more than 42,000 medical workers nationwide to aid Hubei, hardest-hit city by the epidemic in China, pooled various supplies and medical equipment including ventilators and ECMO to Hubei, built two special hospitals for the disease in just more than 10 days and set up 16 temporary hospitals in the province.

ECMO is a key equipment for critically ill patients and there are only about 1,000 sets worldwide.

The country managed to deploy more than 100 sets of ECMO, about a quarter of the total in China, to Hubei by purchasing and gathering the equipment across the country so that the equipment will help critically ill patients in Hubei as much as possible.

"We pooled so many social resources. This kind of strength, speed and scale of China shows our utmost efforts to save every patient. Just as Xi put it, the safety and health of the people always come first. It embodies a people-centered concept, that is, the original aspiration of the Communist Party of China is to bring benefits to the people," said Yan Yilong, deputy director of Institute for Contemporary China Studies of Tsinghua University.

To that end, efforts were made in various aspects--an efficient anti-epidemic plan was rolled out to reduce mortality, seven versions of diagnosis and treatment schemes were released rapidly to guide treatment, medical experts were deployed to regions hit hardest by the epidemic, more than 4.2 million households were screened to ensure that every patient gets treatment. Meanwhile, traditional Chinese and western medicine were combined to prevent mild cases from getting worse. Efforts have been made to boost multiple-disciplinary cooperation to work out a personalized treatment plan for each patient.

"We have done our best to save patients ranging from newborns to centenarians at all costs, exempting their expense of diagnosis and treatment. We have proceeded from
the principle that people's lives and health come above everything else. This is the advantage of our system and it also shows the strength of our social security," said Zheng Gongcheng, a professor with Renmin University of China.

The average expense of every critically ill patients exceeds 150,000 yuan and that of a few patients even reached more than a million yuan.

All the expenses were reimbursed by the medical insurance.

Overall, more than 94 percent of the patients were cured and nearly 70 percent of the patients aged over 80 in Wuhan were saved, honoring China's solemn commitment to put the people's lives and health in the first place.