On March 20, Yin Li, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee, Governor of the People's Government of Sichuan Province and head of the emergency response headquarters, presided over the Twenty-first Meeting to Respond to COVID-19 Outbreak. He guided the attendees to study and implement the key points of the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, listened to the work reports of the foreign affairs working group, Chengdu, Mianyang, Leshan and Yibin, and made deployments on preventing imported cases from overseas and accelerating the restoration of production and life order.

　　The meeting stressed that departments at all levels throughout Sichuan Province should resolutely integrate their minds and actions into the deployments and requirements of the central government, summarize and deepen the prevention and control work in the previous stage, study and judge the epidemic situation, timely adjust the work focus and counter-measures, prevent imported cases from overseas, promote the resumption of work and production, and bring the production and life order back on track. First, Sichuan should further improve the prevention and control measures and strictly prevent imported cases from overseas. Chengdu should continue to implement port territorial responsibility, airport, customs, border defense and other departments should coordinate with each other, and all cities (autonomous prefectures) should actively cooperate to refine the implementation of on-site, on-way and off-site prevention and control responsibilities. Sichuan should strengthen screening and information sharing for inbound personnel who have traveled or lived overseas in the past 14 days, implement respective control measures for individuals, and properly provide service guarantee. On this basis, all regions in Sichuan should resume the normal management of residents' communities as soon as possible, resume and regulate the normal operation of medical institutions, and give full play to the prevention and control role of all professional aspects. Second, Sichuan should speed up the resumption of service industry and organize students to return to school in an orderly manner. Based on the actual situation, Sichuan should cancel the approval and filing procedures, promote the resumption of the catering industry, and vigorously advocate healthy dining methods; Sichuan should open public cultural facilities and scenic spots in an orderly manner, and scientifically manage the flow of visitors; Sichuan should promptly study, refine and formulate the plan to resume school education, and make full preparations for the resumption work. Third, Sichuan should strengthen the implementation of policies and increase support, and strive to improve the resumption efficiency of enterprises. Sichuan should timely implement supporting policies, remove the obstacles blocking production, supply and sales of products, as well as people flow and logistics, help enterprises boost confidence, resume operation, and reach design capacity as soon as possible; Sichuan accelerate the construction of key projects, help solve problems threatening labor force and raw material supply in time, and strive to form more physical workload; Sichuan should make every effort to increase employment, and timely adjust or remove the restrictions imposed on work resumption, so as to meet the employment needs of enterprises to the greatest extent. Fourth, Sichuan should seize the development opportunities to stabilize economic growth. To realize this goal, Sichuan should implement the deployments made by the First Session of Sichuan-Chongqing Party and Government Joint Meeting for Promoting Construction of Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle, and promote the construction of major projects under the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle framework. Sichuan should foster and develop emerging industries and emerging consumption formats, take multiple measures to stabilize foreign trade and foreign investment, and promote the upgrading of the economy. Regions shouldered with the responsibility of poverty alleviation should spare no effort to fulfill their responsibilities, so as to win an all-out victory in the final battle.

　　The meeting pointed out that while promoting the resumption of work and production of enterprises, relevant departments should strictly implement the work safety responsibility, strengthen the screening and rectification of potential safety hazards, and resolutely prevent accidents threatening work safety. Departments concerned should  respond to the appeals and concerns of the groups heavily affected by the epidemic in a timely manner, strengthen the assistance to people living in dire poverty, and guarantee their basic life, so as to ensure the overall social stability.

　　Deputy heads of the emergency response headquarters and the heads of the working groups attended the meeting.