预防为主

預防為主

yùfángwéizhǔ

phrase

Meanings

1 prevention first
2 to give priority to prevention
3 'prevention as the guiding principle'

Characters

Examples

我国卫生工作坚持预防为主。

Wǒ guó wèishēng gōngzuò jiānchí yùfáng wéi zhǔ.

Our country's health work adheres to putting prevention first.

火灾要预防为主，灭火为辅。

Huǒzāi yào yùfáng wéi zhǔ, mièhuǒ wéi fǔ.

For fires, prevention should come first, with firefighting as backup.

Tips

culture

One of the PRC's founding public-health slogans, coined in the 1950s alongside 团结中西医 ('unite Chinese and Western medicine'). Still the headline principle of the 《传染病防治法》 (Infectious Disease Prevention Law).

Stroke Order

预 yù

防 fáng

为 wèi

主 zhǔ