Photo taken with a mobile phone shows cured patients waving goodbye to medical workers before leaving the Leishenshan hospital in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, April 4, 2020. (Xinhua/Gao Xiang)

China has put the domestic epidemic under control and the rising trend of imported COVID-19 cases has waned, while the order of work and life has resumed at a faster pace, they said.

This fully demonstrated the political advantage of China's socialist system and showed that China is a major and responsible country, they added.

Delivering the speech, Xi said facing the sudden epidemic outbreak, the CPC Central Committee put people's life and health first and acted with resolute measures.

China had basically curbed the spread of the virus in over one month, managed to bring the daily number of new domestically-transmitted cases down to single digits in about two months, and secured decisive achievements in protecting Wuhan and Hubei in about three months, Xi noted.

"For a huge country with 1.4 billion people, these are hard-won achievements," he said.

At the critical moment of fighting COVID-19, non-CPC members have unswervingly stood with the CPC, Xi said. He expressed gratitude on behalf of the CPC Central Committee and said the comments and suggestions offered by the non-CPC members at the symposium will be earnestly studied.