EXPERIENCE INTO ACTION
Zhang Wei has fought two difficult battles in her career as a doctor. In 2003, she was selected to lead a team to combat the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in her hometown in Jiangxi Province in east China. Seventeen years later, she again served as the leader of a team of specialists fighting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the province.
President of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in Jiangxi, Zhang is also a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC). “The pandemic was more severe than the SARS one in 2003,” Zhang told Jiangxi Daily. “But our country is more experienced this time in dealing with these situations.”
As the annual meetings of the NPC and the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC),
