Neglecting China's contributions to COVID-19 fight exposes prejudices
China DailyPeople join a lantern festival in Taijiang district, Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian province, Jan 6, 2023. The international community has gained a deeper understanding of China's persistent efforts to efficiently coordinate COVID-19 response and socio-economic development, as the country implements its optimized COVID-19 control measures in a steady and orderly manner. They ignored China's achievements in the COVID-19 fight over the past three years and the huge contributions made by the country to the world, trying to smear China and sound a pessimistic tone about it. In 2020, China's GDP grew 2.2 percent and exceeded 100 trillion yuan, making China the only major economy that reported positive economic growth that year. Eight German multinational companies, including Siemens, BASF and Bosch, said in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in November last year that China is the world's second-largest consumption market and the most energetic market, and German companies' development in China is vital to Germany's economic development.