Led by Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, the Central Guiding Team arrived in Wuhan on January 27. Empowered to comprehensively strengthen frontline epidemic prevention and control, the Central Guiding Team mainly carries out work in five aspects: (1) to strengthen prevention and control at the source, make arrangements such as traffic restraint and extension of Spring Festival break, in order to interrupt epidemic transmission; (2) to do everything possible to deploy resources to satisfy the need for medical workers and medical supplies, increase hospital beds, and ensure the supply of daily necessities for the local residents; (3) to coordinate the efforts in treating and curing patients, building temporary treatment centers, thorough infection screening, classified and multi-level treatment for patients, and management of the four groups of people who are confirmed patients, suspected cases, febrile and close contacts, and promote the use of traditional Chinese medicine in disease treatment; (4) to organize the conducting of epidemiological investigations, tracking and studying of the source of infection and the route and mechanism of transmission, and timely analysis of the epidemic trend; and (5) to clarify the duties for administrative divisions, industry sectors, units, and individuals and ensure their full performance.
The Central Guiding Team has worked alongside with the people in Wuhan and other places of Hubei province, and focused their work on epidemic prevention and control, treating and curing patients, and ensuring medical supplies, thus playing a key role on the front line of the battle.
向湖北等疫情嚴重地區派出指導組
武漢和湖北是新冠肺炎疫情防控的重中之重，也是打贏疫情防控阻擊戰的主戰場。2020年1月25日，中共中央政治局常委會召開專題會議，決定向湖北等疫情嚴重地區派出指導組，推動有關地方全面加強防控一線工作。
中央赴湖北指導組主要有三項職責：一是指導督導湖北、武漢落實中央決策部署；二是指導湖北、武漢抗擊疫情，增強防控力量；三是督查一些不作為、亂作為、不擔當的問題，依法依紀要求有關方面做出整改，做出調查處理。
1月27日，中共中央政治局委員、國務院副總理孫春蘭率中央指導組抵達湖北省武漢市，全面加強一線疫情防控，重點開展五方面工作：一是加強源頭防控，作出交通隔離、延長假期等工作部署，切斷疫情的傳播途徑和傳播渠道；二是千方百計調配資源，保障醫護力量和醫用物資，增加收治床位供給，確保居民生活必需品供應；三是全力救治患者，部署建立方艙醫院、開展拉網式排查，分類分級分層開展救治，抓好確診、疑似、發熱和密切接觸者四類人群管理，推進中醫藥參與疫情防控；四是組織開展流行病學調查，對傳染源、傳播途徑和傳播機理等進行追蹤研究，及時研判疫情走勢；五是明確和落實好轄區、行業部門、單位和個人“四方”責任。
中央指導組同湖北人民和武漢人民并肩作戰，自始至終抓住疫情防控、救治患者、保障醫用物資三條主線，扭住武漢和湖北其他市州兩個重點，在疫情防控斗爭的第一線發揮了關鍵作用。
The Central Guiding Team Dispatched to Hubei Province and Other Severely-Hit Regions
Wuhan city and Hubei province are the top priorities of epidemic prevention and control, and the main battlefields of the war against the virus. On January 25, 2020, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided to dispatch a Central Guiding Team to Hubei province and other regions severely hit by the epidemic, aiming to comprehensively strengthen epidemic prevention and control on the front line.
The Central Guiding Team has three major duties: (1) to guide and supervise Hubei province and Wuhan city to implement the arrangements made by the central leadership; (2) to guide Hubei and Wuhan in the battle against the epidemic and increase prevention and control forces; and (3) to investigate negative, wrong and irresponsible actions, supervise local rectification, and deal with those problems in accordance with laws and discipline.
