The official news came out on May 8 that Shanghai lowered the emergency response again after two-month first-level response and one-and-a-half-month second-level response.

With the downgrade, Shanghai issues two guidelines on how to wear masks or when to turn on air conditioners, which seems to be side issues but is closely related to the people's life. The details in the guidelines present rich experience, as reported on Shanghai Branch of Xinhua News Agency.

Third-level response brings a new scene to Shanghai. The people staying at home for months can take off masks on empty roads; foodies offer themselves a treat at food stores in shopping malls and metros.

The downgrade results from careful consideration and accurate judgment of the current situation Upon painstaking efforts, we have achieved great results in the defense of Wuhan and even Hubei, and have achieved strategic results in nationwide COVID-19 control. There have been no new confirmed cases in Shanghai for more than 2 months since March 3.

Shanghai that was once forced to be suspended is now fully recovered, and becomes safer, more active and more confident. Looking back in the more-than-100-day period after implementing the first-level response, Shanghai has handed over an excellent answer. Previously, some people think that tens of thousands of cases might emerge in such a super-large city with tens of millions of people, but it is clear that Shanghai, with meticulous management, maintains COVID-19 control well and has 339 local confirmed cases.

With the downgrade, Shanghai issues two guidelines on how to wear masks or when to turn on air conditioners, which seems to be side issues but is closely related to the people's life. Besides, the details in the guidelines present rich experience.

Meticulous management helps implement the plan. When the Shanghai-version treatment plan is introduced, Professor Zhang Wenhong is asked about the issuance of the professional plan; and Zhang answers that the plan is written for the confirmed cases in Shanghai. Furthermore, the communities takes a tailor-made and refined control as well, thus applying drones, loudspeakers, mini programs, QR code, online management and closed-loop management at the same time.

The allocation of masks is the best example, which is changed from offline queue to online booking and to intelligent innovation in various communities. Moreover, it is an important test to distribute masks.

Meticulous management requires information transparency. With important contents, two press conferences are held a day, through which a lot of information is relayed to citizens of Shanghai, in order to form mutual trust. The issues concerned by the citizens will be straightened out the next day, thus removing a lot of doubts for them.

Fine management needs quick decisions. Foreign countries are epidemic-stricken, but Shanghai does not seal itself off and carries a high pressure. We should know that the number of people entering and leaving Shanghai Port ranks the top in our country, and the responsibility for controlling imported cases and preventing the re-outbreak of domestic cases is very grave. However, Shanghai implements the requirements of the CPC Central Committee at the first time. As the first entry point, Shanghai undertakes a large number of returnees, and makes every effort on centralized isolation.

It is not easy to get all returnees quarantined in a centralized manner, because it needs many qualified hotels and urgent transformation ahead of time, and it needs seamless connection from the airport to isolation sites. Therefore, Shanghai forms a closed-loop management and fulfills its duties to guard our country, which prevents risks for the people and keeps security for the country.

In terms of production resumption, Shanghai guidelines have four versions in more than a month, and provide various answers to remove firms' doubts, so that the firms can solve their problems based on their own situation. The municipal officials led a team to visit hundreds of thousands of firms in online and offline forms, in a bid to solve practical difficulties and support firms in epidemic control and production resumption. According to foreign heads, Shanghai is safe and dependable.

The foreign capital data in the first quarter offers a prime example. In the first quarter of this year, foreign investment in Shanghai reached USD4.669 billion, with an increase of 4.5% from the same period last year and an increase of 20.8% in March. The surprising growth of foreign capital shows that some domestic areas like Shanghai are turning into an important option for industry chain of multinational corporations and one of the safe havens for international capital. The greater the risk is, the more dangerous will be to seek opportunities, so Shanghai's first May 5th Shopping Festival and online new economy are carried out to save momentum for the future and to boost confidence in the world. These testings are knitting the attraction of Shanghai.

The deployment depends on the epidemic development. Now, the normal epidemic control should be carried out continuously. On the first day when the emergency response is officially reduced to the third level, Li Qiang, Chief of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee, presides over an expert forum on COVID-19 control, and listens in depth to their analysis and suggestions on the development of global epidemic situation, measures for regular COVID-19 control, and scientific research.

According to the actual situation in Shanghai, we should further improve the ability of combining peacetime and wartime under the condition of regular COVID-19 control, speed up and improve the public health emergency management system, and strive to maintain public health and safety management in mega-city. Under normal response, Shanghai will continue to fix attention to the city entrances, lodgings, people flow, job posts, school gates and monitoring posts, so as to achieve more discovery, faster tracking, more efficient treatment and more conscious protection.

Shanghai’s efforts on control COVID-19 will be enhanced, which is the base of safe and orderly urban operation.