Xinhua Portraits | Holiday greetings to women in the fight against COVID-19

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Women medical staff have fought day and night at the frontline against epidemic to rescue the COVID-19 patients.

In the meantime, policewomen, disease control personnel, community workers, journalists, and volunteers have made an important contribution to containing the epidemic with actions.

On the occasion of International Women's Day, sincere solicitude should be extended to women fighting COVID-19 at the frontline and in other fields.

Railway workers carry supplies to be transported to Hubei Province at the international railway port in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, March 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Lu Boan)

A worker makes protective suits at the workshop of Foshan Nanhai Plus Medical Co., Ltd. in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, March 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

Community workers learn about residents' situation in Caidian District of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)

Combo photo shows worker Zhou Shulan working at the construction site (above) taken on March 6, 2020 and posing for a photo at a photography studio taken on March 5, 2020, in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. As the International Women's Day is drawing near, the Guangxi branch of China Construction Third Bureau First Engineering Co., Ltd. took photos for their female workers as a special gift to record their beautiful moments amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Xinhua/Cao Yiming)

Medical team members of the Second Hospital of Shandong University swear an oath before leaving for Hubei Province, in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Feb. 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhu Zheng)

Zhang Huibian, a staff member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Lyuliang, puts on protective suit outside a laboratory in Lyuliang, north China's Shanxi Province, March 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Yang Chenguang)

Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2020 shows Zhou Qiong, a doctor of department of respiratory medicine at Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, who is a member of "assault team" in the fight against the pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)

Doctor Hu Xiaoling (R) with her colleague delivers medicines to a household in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 26, 2020. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)

Combo photo shows worker Li Xinyuan working at the construction site (above) taken on March 6, 2020 by Zhou Hua and posing for a photo at a photography studio taken on March 5, 2020, in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. As the International Women's Day is drawing near, the Guangxi branch of China Construction Third Bureau First Engineering Co., Ltd. took photos for their female workers as a special gift to record their beautiful moments amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Xinhua)

Combo photo shows worker Ji Fangzhen working at the construction site (above) taken on March 6, 2020 by Cao Yiming and posing for a photo at a photography studio taken on March 5, 2020, in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. As the International Women's Day is drawing near, the Guangxi branch of China Construction Third Bureau First Engineering Co., Ltd. took photos for their female workers as a special gift to record their beautiful moments amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (Xinhua)

Huang Fei disinfects the bus before starting a day's work in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 24, 2020. Huang Fei, a bus driver born in 1986, conducts a variety of measures to safely facilitate the travel of people during the epidemic control period. (Xinhua/Li An)

A staff checks the nucleic acid test kit at the plant of Luoyang Ascend Biotechnology Co., Ltd in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, March 4, 2020. (Xinhua/Li Jianan)

Medical team members take an oath before leaving for Hubei Province at West China Hospital of Sichuan University in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 7, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Xi)

Volunteer Li Wenqi stands in the snow at a checking point for epidemic prevention in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Feb. 29, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

Workers package protective suits at the workshop of Foshan Nanhai Plus Medical Co., Ltd. in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, March 3, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Dawei)

Dancers of a local ballet troupe demonstrate movements during an open course on live stream, in east China's Shanghai, Feb. 29, 2020. Due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, the art group has canceled its on-site open course and moved it online. (Xinhua/Ren Long)

A pharmacy staff member dispenses medicines at the chain store of Hankou pharmacy in Huangshi Road of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 27, 2020. (Xinhua/Cai Yang)

Workers are busy on the production line of Cefaleolin sodium for injection in the Harbin Pharmaceutical Group General Pharmaceutical Factory in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, March 2, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)

Military medical staff airlifted by eight large transport planes of the air force of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) arrive at Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 2, 2020. (Xinhua/Cheng Min)

Teacher Chen Weiwen interacts with her students during a trial online class in Shanghai, east China, Feb. 25, 2020. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)

A worker shows a pair of goggles made by 3D printer at the additive manufacturing research and application center of Hunan Vanguard Group Co., Ltd. in the economic development zone of Changsha City, central China's Hunan Province, Feb. 11, 2020. (Xinhua/Xue Yuge)

Nurse Zhou Li wears a protective suit before entering a ward at Xianghu Hospital of the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 5, 2020. (Xinhua/Wan Xiang)

Li Lanjuan, an academician with the Chinese Academy of Engineering, who heads the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, receives an interview with Xinhua in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, Jan. 29, 2020. (Xinhua/Huang Zongzhi)