Yuan Weifang, center, a nurse at Shanghai No 7 People's Hospital and a member of the hospital's medical team to Wuhan, attends to a novel coronavirus pneumonia patient in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, on April 2, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

'What is people first?' Xi points to how China saves lives at all costs

"What is people first?" President Xi Jinping asked, before offering his own answer when he was talking with lawmakers on Friday.

"So many people worked together to save a single patient. This, in essence, embodies doing whatever it takes (to save lives)," he said.

"We mobilized from around the nation the best doctors, the most advanced equipment and the most needed resources to Hubei and Wuhan, going all out to save lives," Xi said, adding that the eldest patient cured is 108 years old.

"We are willing to save lives at all costs. No matter how old the patients are and how serious their conditions have become, we never give up," Xi said.