3月25日，在亚洲青年领袖论坛开幕式上，国家传染病医学中心主任、复旦大学附属华山医院感染科主任张文宏发表主旨演讲。

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各位领导、来宾们、先生们、女士们、朋友们：

大家好！我是复旦大学附属华山医院感染科主任张文宏。

过去三年我一直在参与抗疫，我非常高兴今天能够有机会参与到亚洲青年领袖论坛，这将是作为我抗疫三年以来的一个标志性的时间节点。因为在这里，我看到了来自于亚洲的青年朋友们。在这里，我们彼此之间没有隔阂地开展交流。我看到在整个会场上，尽管大家来自于不同的国家，我们在这里都不需要再戴口罩。我认为，今天这个时间节点是我整个旅途当中的一个重要时间点，因为下一站我将到大湾区的珠海、澳门参加学术会议。我极少参加这样的非学术会议，纯粹是出于文化的交流，但是我认为这个会议非常重要，是我过去三年抗疫工作的一个很重要的标志，所有的抗疫都是为了今天大家可以在一起自由的交流，没有障碍。

回想起过去的三年，我其实不是第一次参加这个论坛，但是又是第一次线下参加这个论坛。

在2021年，我曾经答应参加这个论坛和在座各位青年领袖有充分的交流，但是当我马上要开始登机进入机舱的时候，我接到电话，说我们的城市有疫情。作为上海临床救治专家组组长，我马上终止了来广州参加这样的重要盛会，回去抗疫了。在整个2021年，我们正处于全球疫情死亡率最高的时候，整个的2021年和2022年，我们都看到，全球的药物储备、疫苗储备都不够充分，我们通过一次又一次的公共卫生非药物的干预避免更多人员的死亡。

随着时间进入2022年，世界各个国家逐渐实施开放，但是即便是2022年，我们也不像今天这样如此自由地在一起交流，我们的开放、交流还是不够充分。一直到2022年年底我们实施了完全的开放，但是开放以后我们的医疗体系也遭受了比较大的压力。当时我在上海，每天都到基层去，到乡村去，跟乡村的青年医生在一起，原因是我们的医院作为中国的红十字总会医院，我所在的城市是上海，和广州一样是全国最富裕的城市之一。当面临这么大的医疗冲击的时候我们仍然觉得捉襟见肘，我们仍然觉得我们的医疗体系韧性有待考验。经过几个星期，我们不仅仅将上海的社区发动起来，我们的郊区包括全国乡村的无数乡村卫生院也被发动起来。政府在这个时间节点日以继夜地给各个基层卫生院输送药物，我们基层卫生院的青年医生全面动员起来，经过几个星期的努力，我们度过了这次疫情的挑战，展现了整个医疗体系的韧性。

在这个过程当中，我们作为非常大型的医院，我仍然觉得有巨大的压力。最终，我们是因为全社会的团结，全社会医疗力量的动员，特别是分布在全国各个区域的年轻的乡村医生都动员起来了，最终我们度过了这一次非常严峻的挑战。所以，这场疫情给我非常大的一个印象触动，在未来我们仍然会面临非常大的不确定事件的挑战，包括气侯，包括疫情。只有我们社会各界充分地的团结，我们才可以构建一个韧性的社会。这一次，我们的卫生体系最终接受了这样的一个巨大的挑战，最终走了出来，这使我们非常高兴。我们整个社会的体系建设是可以通过我们的团结来打造一个不脆弱的体系，一个非常庞大的、应对气侯、瘟疫等挑战的有韧性的社会。所以，今天我们相聚在这里，亚洲青年精英相聚在这里，我们恰逢人类已经全面建立了对新冠疫情的免疫屏障。在未来相当长的一段时间内，我们可以说我们已经走出了疫情，世界卫生组织也宣称，今天，每天死于新冠的病人数都是进入到历史的低点，我们离走出公共卫生突发事件的时间节点应该为时不远。

On 25 March, Zhang Wenhong, director of National Center for Infectious Diseases of China and director of Department of Infectious Diseases of Fudan-Huashan Hospital, delivereda keynote speech at the Opening Ceremony of the Asia Youth Leaders Forum. Following is the full text of the speech.

Excellencies,

Distinguished guests,

Ladies and gentlemen,

Dear friends,

Greetingsto you all. I am Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Fudan-Huashan Hospital.

I have been fighting the coronavirus for the past three years. I am very happy to have the opportunity to participate in the Asia Youth Leaders Forum today, because this will be a milestone marking the end of my three-year battle. I see young Asiansare gathered here, and we communicate with each other without hindrance. I see that across the venue, even though we come from different countries, we don’t need to wear a mask anymore. 

I think this moment in time isa midpoint during my whole journey. My next stop will be the Greater Bay Area, specifically, Zhuhai and Macao, for academic conferences. I rarely participate in such non-academic conferences. I am here purely for cultural exchanges, but I think this forum is very important, a very important symbol of my anti-coronavirus efforts in the past three years, all of which are for the purpose that we can communicate face to face freely today, without any barriers.

Looking back on the past three years, it was in fact not the first time I had participated in this forum, but it is the first time I have participated in this forum in person. In 2021, I promised to attend the forum and engage with the participating youth leaders. When I was boarding the plane and about to enter the cabin, I received a call saying that there was an outbreak. 

As the leader of Shanghai’s expert group on clinical treatment, I immediately canceled my plan of coming to Guangzhou for such an important event and went back to fight the coronavirus. In 2021, we were at a time when the global coronavirus mortality rate was at a high point. Throughout 2021 and into 2022, we witnessed a global insufficiency of drug and vaccine stockpile. But through one after another non-drug public health interventions, we have avoided more deaths.

As we approached 2022, countries around the worldwere gradually easing restrictions. But even in 2022, we were not able to communicate so freely as we do today. Easing and exchanges were still lacking. This lasted until the end of 2022, when our borders were completely opened. However, after the opening, our medical system suffered a lot of pressure. I was in Shanghai at that time. I went to the grassroots every day, and I went to the countryside to be with the young doctors there. That was because our hospital used to be the Chinese Red Cross General Hospital. 

I was inShanghai. like Guangzhou, it is one of the richest cities in the country, but when facing such big medical pressure, we still felt stretched. We still felt that the resilience of our medical system was heavily tested. After a few weeks, we mobilized not only the communities in shanghai, but also our suburbs, including countless village health centers across the country. At this point int time, the government delivered medicines day and night to grassroot health centers, and the young doctors of these local health centers were fully mobilized. After several weeks of hard work, we survived this outbreak and demonstrated the resilience of the entire medical system.

During this process,even in a large hospital like ours, I still felt tremendous pressure. In the end, it was because of the unity of the whole society – the mobilization of the medical forces of the whole society, especially the rural young doctors throughout the country that we were able to overcome this very serious challenge. In summary, this experience has left a strong impression on me. In the future we will still face the challenge of great uncertain events, such as climate disasters and pandemics. Only when all sectors of our society are fully united can we build a resilient society. 

Our health system has eventually risen up to such a huge challenge and emerged from it. It is such a delight to me. Speaking of system building of our entire society, through our unity we can build a system that is not fragile, and a sophisticated, resilient society that can tackle big social, climate, and pandemic challenges. 

This is why we are gathered here today – countless young Asian elites are gathered here, at a time when humanity has established an immunity fence against the coronavirus. For a long time to come, we can say that we have come out of the pandemic. The World Health Organization has also declared that the number of patients dying from the coronavirus is hitting the lowest every day. We should not be far from the time when we get out of this public health emergency.

We also see that flights between countries have been slowly resuming, but there is also a feeling that we are not completely back to what we were before the pandemic. The ties between countries seem to be more delicate than it was pre-pandemic. This is an issue of concern that we need to gather here and discuss today. I believe thispandemic has taught us a lesson: whether it’s economy, international relationships, or global security, people-to-people exchanges and the flow of goods are clearly the guarantee of our prosperity – and so are our communication and economic circulation the guarantee of resilience of our entire society.