US President Biden urged Congress to pass the COVID-19 hate crime bill as soon as possible.

　　On March 19th, local time, US President Biden issued a statement urging Congress to pass the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act as soon as possible to deal with violent crimes and discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States during the epidemic.

　　The hate crime act of COVID-19 aims to strengthen the supervision of the U.S. Department of Justice on hate crimes in COVID-19, support the statistical reporting mechanism of hate crimes of state and local law enforcement agencies, and help Asian American communities obtain hate crime information. The bill was proposed in May 2020, but it was not passed at that time. With the shooting in Atlanta on March 16th, hate crimes and discrimination against Asian Americans caused panic in the United States. It is reported that the revised new bill will establish a new position in the US Department of Justice, which is responsible for reviewing and supervising hate crimes.

　　In his statement, Biden said that the US government expressed the most severe condemnation of gender-based and anti-Asian violence. He urged Congress to quickly pass the COVID-19 hate crime bill and implement it as soon as possible. Biden also said that he has instructed the Federal Department of Justice and the Ministry of Health and Human Services to take action against discrimination against Asians and xenophobia. (CCTV reporter Xu Wei)