Full Scale Production And Expansion, Mask Market Supply Will Be Improved.

The epidemic of new coronavirus infection affects hundreds of millions of people. How is the productivity of masks in China now? How many N95 masks can be produced per day? Which control materials are in short supply? In February 2nd, the Ministry of industry and information technology held a press conference to respond to the relevant hot issues.

Mask is the "standard" for epidemic prevention and control. The current market demand presents explosive growth, producing more than one mask, and more protection for the people and health care workers. Cao Xuejun, deputy director of the consumer goods industry department of the Ministry of industry and commerce, said that at present, the recovery rate of masks is about 60%, and the daily mask production in China is more than 10 million. Among them, the N95 respirator with a filtration efficiency of 95% has a capacity of about 600 thousand per day. The Ministry of industry and Commerce will make every effort to improve the production of masks, and believe that the rate of resumption of masks will increase significantly and the market supply will be improved.

"When to use what kind of mask is not the same." Wang Wei, director of the Ministry of industry and materials industry, said that the main raw materials of the masks were high melt index polypropylene fiber and relatively abundant domestic capacity, and the domestic output was about 900 thousand tons in 2019. One ton of raw materials can produce 900 thousand to 1 million disposable surgical masks, while only 200 thousand to 250 thousand N95 medical masks are produced. Apart from the intensive care unit, wearing ordinary medical masks can solve the problem, which is a reasonable use of raw materials. Not wearing N95 mask in ICU is a waste.

In terms of killing products, Wang Wei said that in general, the current supply capacity of 84 disinfectant, hand sanitizer and 75% medical alcohol can completely meet the demand. 84 the raw material of the disinfectant is sodium hypochlorite. According to the general calculation of 5% to 6%, the daily demand is 100 tons, while the daily output of sodium hypochlorite in China is about 10 thousand tons. At present, though the yield is not very high, the output can also be close to 5000 tons. With the gradual recovery of enterprises, the 84 disinfectant can meet the needs of hospitals and society. At present, the daily output of hand sanitizer has reached 140 tons, and there are still more than 200 tons of inventory. In general, the supply is no problem. The daily production capacity of medical alcohol is 407 tons, the yield is 55%, and it is improving step by step. In addition, ethanol production enterprises in China can produce more than 95% alcohol content, with a daily output of 900 tons, which can ensure the supply of raw materials for medical alcohol.

Huang Libin, director of the Ministry of information and the director of operations coordination and Coordination Bureau, said that with the continuous epidemic, the demand for key materials mainly included five categories, more than 100 categories, such as medical protective supplies, killing products, testing and testing instruments and equipment, medical drugs and medical devices.

"These materials are generally divided into three broad categories." Medical protective clothing, N95 respirators and other key protective products were up to February 1st, and the daily output of medical protective clothing has reached 20 thousand units, more than doubled from 8 thousand and 700 pieces in January 28th, and the production volume is basically used in Hubei, especially in Wuhan. Other areas are basically inventory. The second category is relatively scarce supplies. Although there are still some difficulties in supply and demand in the short term, difficulties can be overcome through overtime production. For example, negative pressure ambulances can complete 200 production tasks in the near future. Besides Wuhan, they can also take into account the needs of other regions. The third category is that they can be guaranteed. Our products such as killing products and temperature detectors are adequate, and production and supply can meet the basic needs. Huang Libin said, the first category is very scarce.

Huang Libin said that the Ministry of industry and Commerce will strengthen mobilization, deployment and organization and coordination, use the central reserve to ensure the needs of the epidemic areas, focus on the capacity exploitation of key backbone enterprises, give full play to the role of the task force working group, coordinate and solve the outstanding problems and difficulties of raw materials and key components, and coordinate with other departments to solve the problems of logistics and transportation, import customs clearance, and so on, and effectively increase effective supply. At the same time, we should promote the convergence of export standards and Chinese standards, so that the export products that meet EU standards and US standards can be used in some areas of our country, and strengthen international cooperation to promote international procurement to solve domestic demand.