President Xi Jinping signed a presidential order on Tuesday to award four people national medals and honorary titles for their outstanding contributions fighting the COVID-19 pandemic (瘟疫，流行病).
Zhong Nanshan, excellent disease expert, was awarded the Medal of the Republic, the highest national honor, for his outstanding work in fighting COVID-19 in China. Three others were also awarded the "People's Hero" national honorary title. They are Zhang Boli, a (tradition) Chinese medicine expert; Zhang Dingyu, head of Wuhan's Jinyintan Hospital; and Chen Wei, a medical scientist made breakthroughs in COVID-19-related basic research.
Zhong also has long been devoted to the research, prevention treatment of major infectious and chronic respiratory disease (慢性呼吸病), and has a long record of (achieve). He was a major figure in the fight against the severe acute respiratory syndrome(综合症状)outbreak in 2003 in China.
(follow) the COVID-19 outbreak, the Chinese government encouraged the country (contain) the disease in Wuhan, Hubei Province, after the city was locked down in late January. More than 42,000 medical workers from across the country (send) to Hubei to fight the disease. The pandemic has been (effective) placed under control on the Chinese mainland since early March. the nation's first mission to another planet.
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