CCTV News:The 10th China Conference on Chronic Diseases Management closed yesterday (15th). The reporter learned from the conference that the threat of chronic non-communicable diseases to human beings is becoming more and more serious. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization in 2018, the number of deaths caused by chronic diseases in the world is about 41 million every year, and the situation of prevention and control of chronic diseases in China is not optimistic, and chronic diseases have become the number one killer endangering national health.

　　　　　　 Wang Chen, dean of Peking Union Medical College, China Academy of Medical Sciences, said: "Chronic diseases are short for chronic non-communicable diseases, and the World Health Organization calls them four chronic diseases, namely cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, tumors, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and metabolic diseases. Internationally, chronic diseases account for 87% of human deaths, and China accounts for 86%, which means that 86% of Chinese’s deaths are caused by chronic diseases. "

　　　　　　 According to experts, chronic non-communicable diseases are related to overweight, obesity, long-term overeating, insufficient exercise, nutritional imbalance, smoking and drinking, viral infection, autoimmune and other factors. Mental stress and emotional depression are often easy to cause a variety of chronic diseases, which are often ignored by people because of their own characteristics, which is also the main cloud cause of high incidence of chronic diseases in recent years.

　　　　　　 Wang Chen: "It doesn’t happen immediately after infection, like infectious diseases, so it makes patients suffer invisibly and unconsciously, which is an important feature of chronic disease." The more so, the more it deserves our attention in our daily life, and it is extremely prominent and important for China people to correct their bad habits. "

　　　　　　 Experts say that chronic diseases are treated in hospitals and prevented in individuals. At present, it is the focus of chronic disease prevention and treatment in China to guide people to seek medical treatment scientifically, use drugs rationally and change their lifestyle. Experts say that the treatment of chronic diseases is a systematic project, and scientific medical treatment and rational drug use are an important link in the treatment of chronic diseases.

　　　　　　 Weng Jianping, Executive Dean of School of Clinical Medicine, China University of Science and Technology: "It may be a combination of many diseases. For example, a person may have hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes and other mental health diseases at the same time, so it is very necessary for doctors to identify the characteristics and problems of this patient, including the causes."

　　　　　　 Experts suggest that chronic diseases, as a kind of diseases coexisting with living habits, and their related risk factors are common in the population. Therefore, developing a healthy lifestyle is the focus of prevention and control of chronic diseases.

　　　　　　 Weng Jianping, Executive Dean of School of Clinical Medicine, China University of Science and Technology, said: "For ordinary people or most people, if they have no genetic background, I believe that a healthy lifestyle, including proper exercise and light diet, with less salt and less oil, is the most basic thing to do. In particular, the education and improvement of young people’s lifestyles and working methods is one of the most important, effective and direct factors to prevent chronic diseases. "

　　　　　　 Research shows that mental health problems will increase the risk of chronic diseases, and effective psychological intervention is not only an effective means to prevent and control chronic diseases, but also plays a positive role in the rehabilitation of patients.

　　　　　　 Studies have shown that serious mental health problems can induce a variety of chronic diseases. In China, 16%-17.5% of adults suffer from depression, but most people with mental disorders never seek help from mental health or psychologists, thus increasing the risk of chronic diseases.

　　　　　　 Peng Kaiping, Dean of Tsinghua University Academy of Social Sciences, said: "If our mentality is not good, long-term stress, long-term depression and anxiety can all cause cardiovascular diseases and endocrine disorders, and our various immune systems will be hurt, including our gastrointestinal problems, including our sleep, pregnancy, emotional activities, memory and actions."

　　　　　　 Studies have shown that 50-70% of patients with chronic diseases such as malignant tumors suffer from depression and 40-50% from anxiety, which not only destroys the normal physiological function of the body, but also causes emotional reactions such as pain, anxiety, depression, fear and despair, and even refuses treatment. So timely psychological intervention is particularly important.

　　　　　　 Zhang Minghui, director of the Institute of Cytology, Tsinghua University Clinical Medical College, said: "For some diseases that cause serious psychological problems, such as cancer patients, in addition to drug treatment or after drug intervention, we can create a relaxed and good living environment or working environment for them in time, which is very valuable for the rehabilitation of these chronic diseases. In modern medicine, we can use scales or modern testing to give an objective qualitative or evaluation."

　　　　　　 Experts point out that psychological intervention can help people with mental health problems get personalized help to cope with some health risks faced by their bodies and reduce the probability of chronic diseases.

　　In March 2021, on the banks of Jiuqu River in Wuyishan, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader walked into Zhu Xi Garden. Seeing that the wall was printed with "the country is people-oriented, and the country stands for the people", the general secretary stopped to stare. In June 2018, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader quoted this old saying when he presided over the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee’s collective study. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "I always say that our goal is grand and simple. In the final analysis, it is to make all China people live a good life. Taking the people as the center is our fundamental ruling philosophy. " Adhering to this ruling idea requires the broad masses of party member cadres to implement the Party’s mass line, keep in mind the Party’s fundamental purpose, think about what the masses think, worry about what the masses are anxious about, and devote all their energy to making the people live a good life.

　　People-oriented thought has a long history in Chinese history. In ancient China, there were many discourses on attaching importance to and caring for the people. For example, "the people are the foundation of the country, and this is the foundation of the country", "the people are the root of the country" and "water can carry a boat or overturn it". In national governance, it emphasizes the implementation of benevolent governance and moral governance, conforms to the people’s hearts, and puts forward that "Yao and Shun can’t rule the world without benevolent governance" and "those who win the people’s hearts will win the world, and those who lose the people’s hearts will lose the world". These thoughts of caring for the people, loving the people, benefiting the people, supporting the people and protecting the people are important contents of Chinese excellent traditional culture. Adhering to the people-centered fundamental ruling concept is a creative transformation and innovative development of people-oriented thought in ancient China.

　　On the point of attaching importance to the people, Chinese excellent traditional culture has something in common with Marxism. People’s nature is the most distinctive character of Marxism, and people’s position is the fundamental political position of Marxist political parties. Marxism holds that the people are the real driving force to advance history. The Communist Party of China (CPC) is an advanced political party armed with Marxism, a guardian of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of people in China, and a faithful inheritor of Chinese excellent traditional culture. Our party is soberly aware that the future and destiny of a political party and a political power ultimately depend on people’s hearts. To study Marxism, it is necessary to study and practice Marxist thoughts on sticking to the people’s position.

　　General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "Jiangshan is the people, and the people are Jiangshan". Since its founding, our Party has made it its initial intention and mission to seek happiness for the people of China and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. Our party insists on taking the people as the center, and the party has no special interests except the interests of the working class and the broadest masses of the people. Over the past hundred years, our party has always put the people first, adhered to the consistency of respecting the laws of social development and the people’s historical dominant position, adhered to the consistency of striving for lofty ideals and seeking interests for the overwhelming majority of the people, adhered to the consistency of completing the party’s work and realizing the interests of the people, and constantly pushed forward the cause of benefiting the people. The Party led the people in a magnificent and great struggle. The people of China became the masters of the country, society and their own destiny, people’s democracy continued to develop, more than 1.4 billion people achieved a well-off life in an all-round way, and the people’s longing for a better life in China continued to become a reality.

　　It is the hearts of the people to fight and defend the country. For the Communist Party of China (CPC) people, the word "people" is more important than fate. The people’s sense of gain, happiness and security has been significantly enhanced, and the days are getting better and better. In the final analysis, our party always adheres to the people’s supremacy and regards the people’s yearning for a better life as the goal. On the new journey of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, our party also unswervingly adheres to the people-centered development thought, focuses on the people’s livelihood issues that the people are generally concerned about, pays attention to one thing after another, works year after year, works hard with heart and affection, and strives continuously, hard and unremittingly for the people to live a better life and achieve common prosperity.

　　People’s Daily (11th edition, August 9, 2022)