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1. Working Together to Defeat the COVID-19 Outbreak Xi Jinping Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the G20 Extraordinary Virtual Leaders * Summit on COVID- 19 via video link in Beijing, capital of China, March 26, 2020 and delivered a speech titled Working Together to Defeat the COVID- 19 Outbreak, via video link in Beijing. Here is the speech. Your Majesty King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Dear Colleagues, It is good to join you. 1)Let me begin by expressing my sincere aDDreciation to His Majesty King Salman and Saudi Arabia fbr having done tremendous work of communication and coordination to make this summit possible. Facing the COVID- 19 outbreak that caught us all by surprise, the Chinese government and Chinese people have been undaunted as we took on this formidable task. From day one of our fight against the outbreak, we have put peoples life and health first. 2) We have acted according to the overall Drinciplc of shoring UD confidence, strengthening unity, ensuring science-based control and treatment and imposing targeted measures. We have mobilized the whole nation, set up collective control and treatment mechanisms and acted with openness and transparency. What we fought was a peoples war against the outbreak. We have put up a strenuous struggle and made tremendous sacrifices. Now the situation in China is moving steadily in a positive direction. Life and work are quickly returning to normal. Yet, there is no way we will lower our guard or relax control. At the most difficult moment in our fight against the outbreak, China received assistance and help from a lot of members of the global community. Such expressions of friendship will always be remembered and cherished by the Chinese people. Major infectious disease is the enemy of all. 3)As we SDeak,th 。COVID ·19 outbreak is spreading worldwide, posing enormous threat to li能and health and bringing fbrmidable challenge to global public health secuiity. The situation is disturbing and unsettling. At