Women CPC Members on Front Line of Anti-COVID-19 Battle in Beijing

Song Yajing, head of a community health service station, directs people to receive nucleic acid test at a testing site in Tongzhou District of Beijing, on June 22, 2020. [Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin]

Women members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing have been working hard on the front line of the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) since a cluster of confirmed patients were found on June 11.

Under the leadership of CPC committees at all levels, women CPC members in Beijing have 
played exemplary roles on the front line of the anti-epidemic battle, including communities, nucleic acid sampling sites, and designated hospital wards.

One of the CPC members, Song Yajing, a 43-year-old woman who joined the CPC five years ago, is head of a community health service station of Beijing's Tongzhou District. The station offers medical treatment and consultation services to home-based quarantined people. It also provides nucleic acid tests, and publicizes anti-epidemic knowledge to the community residents.

Ma Hongxia, 32, joined the CPC eight years ago. She had been responsible for conducting nucleic acid testing in Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province, since the epidemic outbreak. Now, she is working in an advanced nucleic acid testing lab in Beijing. She and her team receive and deal with tens of thousands of samples every day.

Like Song and Ma, many women CPC members have stuck to their posts to contribute to the battle against COVID-19 epidemic. Many of them work in 7000-plus communities in Beijing to guarantee residents' security by taking temperatures, registering information and guiding them to do nucleic acid test.

Song Yajing collects a throat swab from a resident at a nucleic acid testing site in Tongzhou District of Beijing on June 22, 2020. [Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin]

Song Yajing gives a nucleic acid test to a local resident in Beijing's Tongzhou District on June 22, 2020. [Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin]

Ma Hongxia checks out a sample in an advanced nucleic acid testing lab in Beijing's Daxing District on June 23, 2020. [Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao]

Ma Hongxia communicates with her colleague via walkie-talkie at a nucleic acid testing lab in Beijing's Daxing District on June 23, 2020. [Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao]

Ma Hongxia dons a protective suit before entering the lab in Beijing's Daxing District on June 23, 2020. [Xinhua/Chen Zhonghao]

Wang Yue (R), a probationary Party member and postgraduate student at a university, takes the temperature of a resident at a community of Zhongguancun Sub-district in Beijing's Haidian District on June 16, 2020. [Xinhua/Ren Chao]

Wang Yue (L) works with her mother who is also a volunteer at a community of Zhongguancun Sub-district in Beijing's Haidian District on June 16, 2020. [Xinhua/Ren Chao]

Li Meihong (2nd, L), secretary of the Party committee of a community in Beijing's Shijingshan District, is on duty at a community entrance on June 25, 2020. [Xinhua/Zhang Chenlin]

Sun Xiangting (Front), a retiree, helps community workers guide people to undergo nucleic acid test in Donggaodi Street of Beijing's Fengtai District on June 28, 2020. Sun has volunteered to participate in the epidemic prevention and control work in the community since the COVID-19 outbreak. [Xinhua/Li Xin]

(Source: Xinhua/Translated and edited by Women of China)