From March 28th to 29th, the finals of the National Vocational Skills Competition on Field Epidemiological Investigation were held in Beijing. The competition was jointly organized by the National Health Commission, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. 96 elite athletes from 32 teams from 31 provinces (autonomous regions, or municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps participated in the finals. After fierce competition in comprehensive written test, skills operation and team competition, the Beijing team won the second prize for the group with an excellent result of 4th place, demonstrating the enterprising spirit of the disease control workers in Beijing. Tian Jing from the Fangshan District CDC won the second prize for individuals and the first place in the single category of epidemiological investigation skill. Li Chunyan from Dongcheng District CDC and Zhang Wenzeng from Shunyi District CDC won the individual excellence award. Beijing won the outstanding organization award.

Beijing has always attached great importance to the construction of basic disease prevention and control capabilities such as on-site epidemiological investigation and has established an emergency conversion model for normal and emergency times and cross-regional coordination model with disease control institutions in the city as the backbone, medical and health institutions as the supplement, and high-quality talents trained and qualified in other industries as the backup mechanisms. After the comprehensive implementation of the standardized construction of the epidemic investigation team in Beijing, a group of outstanding technical backbones have emerged. The disease control and medical institutions have established an epidemic investigation team composed of the backbone and standing force to ensure the health of the people in the capital and public health security at all times.