by Jamil Bhatti
ISLAMABAD, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China's quick measures and efforts backed by its expertise in the medical field have led to controlling the outbreak of the novel virus COVID-19 successfully, said a Pakistani media guru, adding that the world can win against the epidemic by following the Chinese way.
Sarmad Ali, managing director of Jang Media Group, Pakistan's largest media house, told Xinhua recently that it has become an open truth in the world that measures and untiring efforts taken by China's central government and its local governments are unprecedented in the world's history.
"Initially, it looked like that it would spread in China as well as in the world at an extra large scale very quickly, but the way China controlled it and contained it is an example in the world. China was much composed and more than ready to handle the situation than any other country," said the media expert, who has been observing the epidemic situation all over the world.
Ali also highlighted the responsible role of Chinese people and nationwide communities against COVID-19 and said the overall well-coordinated efforts finally brought pleasant success and now China's daily new confirmed and suspected cases of the disease are on decreasing trend for around three weeks.
The media expert added that the COVID-19 appeared in the world like a natural disaster but, in spite of fighting against it at home, China actively and timely provided coronavirus-related information to the World Health Organization and other countries, which have really helped the world to counter the fast spread.
"China acted as a responsible citizen of the global village by sharing the updates, experiences and other information. Chinese information sharing is very encouraging and it has benefited the whole world," said the expert, hoping that the world would continuously seek Chinese cooperation, experiences and measures against the disease.
Ali urged the world to hail China not only for its efforts and expertise that successfully and superbly handled a novel virus but also for its parallel measures to minimize the damage to its own, regional and world economies.
"The virus has affected the world economy. However, we see that China has taken measures on the economic front and issued guidance for the companies. Now, we see the Chinese industrial and trade sectors are already on the resumption... which would be a very good sign for regional as well as the world economies," said the expert.
The analyst expressed full confidence that China will bounce back and forecasted that the Chinese economy would perform according to its original plans during the rest of the year.
