On January 26, CAAC held the sixth meeting of the leading group on epidemic prevention and control. Feng Zhenglin, Administrator of CAAC, attended the meeting to convey the spirit of the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and put forward clear requirements for the next stage of work. Li Jian, Deputy Administrator of CAAC and leader of the leading group on epidemic prevention and control of CAAC, conveyed the spirit of the first meeting of the central leading group on battling the coronavirus and put forward requirements accordingly. The meeting required all civil aviation entities to act in accordance with the CPC Central Committee’s overall deployment and carry out prevention and control work in an accurate, effective and scientific way.

Feng Zhenglin stressed that we should carefully study and deeply understand the spirit of the meeting of Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and act in accordance with the CPC Central Committee’s overall deployment, fully understand the importance, severity and urgency of work on epidemic prevention and control, unswervingly implement requirements of the CPC Central Committee, give full play to institutional strengths, delay the return travel peak, and reinforce confidence in the successful completion of the epidemic prevention and control work.

Feng Zhenglin required that all entities should, by strengthening organizational leadership, improving organizational mechanism, perfecting prevention and control measures, conscientiously implement the three-stage prevention and control objectives and tasks of CAAC, highlight key work, support airlines in adjusting or reducing flights, and continue to reduce flow of people; increase support for urgently needed materials, and give priority to the transport of prevention and control materials and personnel; perform intensive protection for key areas and key flights to prevent the spread of the virus through air channels. At the same time, protection of personnel and disclosure of information in the civil aviation system should be reinforced.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, CAAC has attached great importance to the issue and quickly set up a leading organization for epidemic prevention and control, improved its working mechanism, scientifically formulated effective measures, and strengthened joint prevention and control with relevant national ministries and commissions and Beijing Municipality. Up to now, the civil aviation system has not received any report on the spread of the epidemic through aircraft and employees becoming infected. And work on the prevention and control of the epidemic in the civil aviation system is being conducted in a tense and orderly manner.