The Ministry Of Information And Industry Held A Press Conference On Epidemic Prevention And Control Of Medical Supplies.

In February 2nd, the Ministry of industry and information technology held a press conference in Beijing. Huang Libin, director of the Ministry of industry and information technology, director of the Bureau of operations monitoring and coordination, Wang Wei, director of the Department of raw materials and industry, Cao Xuejun, deputy director of the consumer goods industry division, attended the meeting to introduce the situation of new type of coronavirus infected pneumonia epidemic prevention and control, and answered the reporters' questions. The meeting was chaired by Xu Zhaofeng, deputy director of the general office of the Ministry of industry and information technology. The following is a transcript of the meeting's text.

Xu Zhaofeng, deputy director of the general office of the Ministry of industry and information technology: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to attend today's press conference of the Ministry of industry and information and take the snow to cope with the epidemic of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus. This is our main political task. Recently, our mood is as heavy as ours. The infection of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus has caused great harm to the safety and health of the people, and we are deeply saddened by this. Today, please go to Mr. Huang Libin, director of the Ministry of industry and information technology, the director of the Bureau of operational monitoring and coordination, Mr. Wang Wei, director of the Department of raw materials and industry, and MS. Cao Xuejun, deputy director of the consumer goods industry division. We will introduce the situation of epidemic prevention and control of medical supplies, and answer your questions. First of all, let me introduce Mr. Huang Libin to the relevant information.

Huang Libin, spokesman of the Ministry of industry and information technology and director of the Bureau of operations coordination and coordination: Good morning, everyone. The epidemic of pneumonia caused by the new coronavirus has touched hundreds of millions of people. We feel the same about the mood of the patients and their families in Wuhan and other places. The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to the epidemic situation. Under the command and personal deployment of general secretary Xi Jinping, all fronts, all regions and all fields of the country were mobilized urgently, and the whole country was put together to fight against the epidemic.

The Ministry of industry and information technology (EMI), as the head of the Department of medical supplies support group of the State Council to deal with the new type of coronavirus infection, is responsible for emergency coordination and mobilization of resources to protect key medical supplies such as medical protective clothing, goggles and eye masks.

At the time of the Spring Festival, most of the medical materials production enterprises are on holiday. We quickly mobilize the whole system and mobilize the key medical materials production enterprises to accelerate the resumption of production and rehabilitation. With the hard work of the whole system and all localities, the proportion of key medical materials manufacturing enterprises such as medical protective clothing has been steadily resumed, and the output of key materials has gradually increased. At the same time, we urgently coordinate and make good use of medical materials processed for export in accordance with the standards of Japan and the United States, expand international procurement through various ways, increase the mobilization of the most scarce materials such as medical protective clothing, and fully support the epidemic prevention and control in key areas such as Wuhan.

In recent days, there has been some progress in the medical material support work. But due to the overlapping of the Spring Festival staff leave, the stoppage of production and the shortage of raw materials and so on, the domestic production capacity has a great gap compared with the actual demand under the outbreak of the epidemic. In line with the principle of first priority and the principle of overall consideration, the focus of material protection is placed on Wuhan. We also noted that even in Wuhan, medical protective clothing, goggles, respirators and other key materials are also in a state of tension. In order to save medical protective clothing, some medical staff try to drink less water, eat less and go to the bathroom less, which is very touching and also a spur to our work.

Yesterday afternoon, comrade Li Keqiang, premier of the State Council, visited our ministry, listened to the report on the medical supplies protection, visited the cadres and workers who stood firm at their posts, and put forward new and clear requirements for the next stage of medical material protection work.

We firmly believe that under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council and with the joint efforts of the whole system, we will be able to successfully complete the arduous task of medical insurance, and win the fight against epidemic prevention and control.

Let me give you a brief introduction to these situations. Next, my colleagues and I would like to answer your questions.

Xinhua News Agency reporters:

I would like to ask Mr. Cao, Miao minister, when he said that in the survey, 20 million of the masks were produced in China every day. How much did the actual production capacity go back to, and whether all the mask manufacturers started to work, still unable to satisfy the soaring demand? If so, what do you think of it?

Cao Xuejun, deputy director of the consumer goods industry department of the Ministry of industry and information technology, facing a severe epidemic situation, producing more than one mask is an additional protection for the people and medical staff. Since the establishment of the joint defense joint control system in January 21st, our ministry has been trying to mobilize enterprises to resume work and resume production. Due to the special time point of Spring Festival holidays and epidemic spread, it is difficult to resume production in time. According to our situation, the productivity recovery rate is about 60%. The general office of the State Council recently issued an urgent notice requiring local governments to fulfill their main responsibilities and quickly organize local key enterprises to resume production. We believe that the rate of resumption will increase significantly in the future and the market supply will be improved.

The demand for the market is showing explosive growth, and our supply is in short supply, and the state has taken urgent measures. According to the data of the General Administration of customs, about 56000000 masks were imported in 7 days from 24 to 30 January, and the number of imports exceeded 20 million on the 30 day, which played a certain role in easing the contradiction between supply and demand.

Next, we will do our best to improve the supply of masks and improve the supply capacity of the market.

CCTV new media center reporter: how much does the Ministry of industry and information coordinate to send medical materials to Wuhan? What processes and standards are used to distribute payment? How to monitor it?

Huang Libin: since the establishment of the joint prevention and joint control mechanism of the State Council for coping with the new coronavirus infection, the Ministry of industry and information technology has brought into full play the role of the working group of the medical insurance team leader, strengthened coordination and coordination, and has carried out the unified allocation of key epidemic prevention and control materials, so as to fully meet the epidemic prevention and control needs in Wuhan. According to preliminary statistics, by the time of 24 last night, domestic manufacturers have sent 136 thousand medical protective clothing to Hubei, 117 thousand have arrived, 134 thousand N95 masks have been delivered, more than 13.1 have arrived, and goggles, including medical isolation masks, have sent 188 thousand to 110 thousand. Domestic export processing enterprises urgently allocated some European standard protective clothing to Hubei, and some imported and overseas donated European standard and Japanese standard protective clothing arrived in Wuhan in batches. All of these materials were delivered to Hubei province's new coronavirus protection headquarters. In accordance with the plan of the State Council, the material protection group of the joint defense and joint control mechanism has unified management and unified allocation of medical protective clothing, N95 respirators, medical goggles, negative pressure ambulances and related drugs according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control in Wuhan. The Ministry of industry and information technology has dispatched a special mission working group to some key medical materials production enterprises to supervise the production and shipment of medical protective clothing. The maximum production capacity may be increased, and the key medical materials produced on the same day will be delivered to the storage and transportation enterprises on a regular basis to schedule and track transportation logistics and delivery. The closed loop management should be implemented to ensure that the production and transportation of the epidemic prevention and control materials can be controlled and delivered to Wuhan in time. All of them are handed over to the Hubei provincial epidemic prevention and control headquarters for unified deployment and distribution. In Hubei Province, there is a special person who transfers the goods with our department. The next step is to strengthen communication with the local authorities to ensure that the scarce medical materials are transported to the places most needed.

Science and Technology Daily reporter: yesterday, Premier Qiang inspected the national key medical supplies protection and dispatching platform to deal with the new coronavirus infection situation. Can you give us a specific introduction to the relevant situation of this platform? The second question is whether this platform is a temporary platform, or will it become an emergency security platform in China?

Wang Wei, director of the Department of raw materials industry, Ministry of industry and information technology, I will answer this question. In order to ensure the deployment of key medical materials, our ministry has organized and developed a national key material support platform, which is mainly used for collecting statistical analysis, monitoring and dispatching the production capacity, output and inventory of various key material enterprises. At present, this platform has monitored 7 major categories and 21 categories of key medical materials, has completed the construction of main functional modules, and carried out on-line monitoring of medical protective clothing, respirators, goggles, drugs and other key medical materials. By the end of January 31st, more than 400 enterprises had been warehousing, and more than 300 enterprises had updated data in real time every day, which provided strong support for related work in this period.

Apart from the materials mentioned just now, we are also working on other material related information. For example, like killing products, in addition to Tibet and Xinjiang Construction Corps did not produce products in this area, other provinces and cities have been reported, and these data are further incorporated into the platform. It should be said that after the establishment of this platform, it will play its role in the long run.

Premier Li Keqiang pointed out yesterday that the key period of epidemic prevention and control is now in the key period. Ensuring the key medical materials is a basic condition for scientific and effective prevention and control.

Next, the platform will optimize the supply and demand balance and scheduling function of key medical materials, and effectively support the key material support for coping with the new pneumonia caused by coronavirus infection. We think that epidemic situation is command, prevention and control is responsibility and effective cooperation is efficiency. This platform includes our news conference today. I think we should make the information public and work together to form a joint effort to complete this important work together.

Phoenix TV reporter: is there any shortage of protective materials at present? How big is the gap? Especially what is the situation in Wuhan? What are the next steps to increase production capacity?

Huang Libin: with the spread of the epidemic, suspected and confirmed cases have been on the rise, and demand for medical supplies has increased sharply. At present, we have seriously sorted out the needs of key materials in different parts of the country, mainly including five categories and more than 100 categories, such as medical protective products, disinfectant products, testing and testing instruments and equipment, medical drugs and medical devices. We carried out the demand analysis of different varieties, judged the trend of demand growth, and made plans for the production and expansion plan of key epidemic prevention materials, so as to achieve the matching and matching of supply and demand and ensure on-demand.

In these materials, there are generally three broad categories:

The first category is very scarce. They are mainly medical protective clothing, N95 respirators and other key protective products. These are also the most urgent supply and demand in Wuhan's epidemic prevention and control. For these supply and demand medical supplies, during the Spring Festival, we will vigorously promote the resumption of production and recovery of key enterprises. By February 1st, 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 basically used in Hubei and Wuhan.

The second category is relatively scarce. Although there are some difficulties in supply and demand in the short run, difficulties can be overcome through overtime work of production enterprises. For example, the negative pressure ambulance can complete the 200 production tasks issued by the state in the near future. Besides Wuhan, it can also take into account the needs of other provinces and cities.

The third category is the guarantee. China's killing products, temperature detector and other production capacity is sufficient, production and supply can meet the basic needs.

In accordance with the deployment of the State Council, we have implemented a unified management of the most urgent medical protective clothing, unified allocation, and do everything possible to implement the supply of goods, step up the organization of production and distribution, and do everything we can to protect the demand for materials in key areas such as Hubei and Wuhan. With the development of the epidemic, the contradiction between supply and demand will become more prominent. We should further improve the overall planning of the whole country. Since January 24th, Wuhan has put forward several batch of material demand to the medical supplies support group. The main shortfall is medical protective clothing such as medical protective clothing and medical N95 mask. For the specific demand of materials, the State Council has asked the Wei Health Committee to take the lead. The Ministry of industry and Commerce has participated in scientific calculations so that it can accurately link up and better deploy the key materials.

To strengthen the protection of medical materials, we will take the following four measures:

First, strengthen mobilization, deployment and organization and coordination. We should further improve the working mechanism and make use of the central reserve to ensure the needs of the epidemic areas.

Second, we should focus on the capacity development of key backbone enterprises, pay close attention to the resumption of work and production, effectively play the role of the task force working group in the enterprises, 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.

Third, we should promote the convergence of export standards and Chinese standards so that export products that meet EU standards and US standards can be used in some areas of China.

Fourth, strengthen international cooperation and promote international procurement to solve domestic demand.

Economic Daily reporter: what is the production capacity of killing products now? If the epidemic is not implemented in a short time, will it also be short? How to ensure supply?

Wang Wei: This is a very important issue. In addition to the need to ensure the requirements of medical staff and key epidemic areas, killing products also meet the needs of all sectors of society. The focus of early material support is Wuhan and Hubei. This is our important defense line. Therefore, when the first batch of 500 boxes of disinfectant products were needed in Hubei, we took into account the needs of medical staff and local social needs, and allocated 32 thousand boxes.

Next, with the gradual improvement of social production, life order and other aspects, we expect a larger increase in the future. Overall, the 84 disinfectant, hand sanitizer and 75% medical alcohol can meet the demand from the current supply capacity. Of the 433 enterprises we kill, 84 of them are 95 disinfectant enterprises, with an average operating rate of only 60%, a daily output of 1579 tons, and an inventory of 1908 tons. 84 the raw material of the disinfectant is sodium hypochlorite. According to the general calculation of 5-6%, the daily demand is 100 tons. At present, the daily output of sodium hypochlorite in China is about 10 thousand tons. At present, although the yield is not very high, the output can also be close to 5000 tons. Therefore, the production of 84 disinfectant is guaranteed by raw materials. According to our customary bottles and boxes, the average volume is 67 boxes per ton. With the gradual recovery of enterprises, the production of 84 disinfectant can meet the needs of hospitals and the society. Of course, we still need to focus on the protection of hospitals. This is the task assigned to us by the Party Central Committee and the State Council. There are 70 manufacturers of hand sanitizer, whose output has reached about 140 tons per day, and there are still more than 200 tons of inventory. Medical alcohol production enterprises 59, Nissan can produce 407 tons, output reached more than 200 tons, the yield is 55%, and is gradually improving. In addition, we also have ethanol production enterprises can do more than 95% alcohol content, 900 tons per day, to ensure the supply of raw materials for medical alcohol.

Of course, we attach great importance to the phenomenon that we can not buy the society. After analysis, there are several main reasons. First, the operating rate of the killing products manufacturing enterprises is not high. Although some enterprises have resumed production, the yield is only 40% to 60%. The existing capacity has not been fully released. Moreover, due to the uneven distribution of production capacity, some provinces have some production enterprises for killing products, and some do not. Two, the whole industrial chain of disinfectant products is restricted by stages. The market of hand sanitizer products must be packed with bottles, and medical alcohols also need glass bottles. Most of the market is the demand of small packages, most of which are 500 milliliters, and some 200 milliliters and 100 milliliters will be enough. There are more holidays during the Spring Festival, and with the gradual return of enterprises, the packaging problem can be effectively solved, because in terms of capacity, domestic supply exceeds demand. The three is the transportation of products. How can we ensure that the transport drivers can safely and smoothly transport the goods to their destinations, and they can continue to carry out the next task. Every province has taken many measures to protect our material transportation. I believe that with the gradual solution of these problems, the allocation of material resources will be more effective.

Next, we will make corresponding preparations in accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council in accordance with the decision making and deployment, and improve the corresponding production guidance and allocation system. We urge the enterprises that have not yet resumed work and have insufficient capacity to resume production as soon as possible and increase their production capacity, speed up the coordination of transportation and distribution, and grasp the supply security situation in Hubei and other places, so as to ensure the smooth development of the work.

I want to take this opportunity to discuss a point of view. Here is the memory of the Fukushima nuclear power plant's emergency rush to buy salt. The salt that some people snapped up so far has not been used up yet. At that time, salt production capacity was 40 million tons in the whole country, and the demand for edible salt was enough 8 million tons a year. We used to rely on sea salt and rely on heaven for food. Now we have mine and salt.

We have a common responsibility to distribute the materials that are relatively scarce now to all the people in need, rather than to store up half a year's consumption. This will create tension for people. Please do this together.

People's post and telegraph reporter: Cao director, N95 masks and ordinary masks have large gap, which is not easy to buy. What is the daily productivity of the N95 respirator and ordinary respirator? The second problem is that the protective function of wearing ordinary respirators is enough. N95 masks must be used in any scenario.

Cao Xuejun: our mask business recovery rate is 60%, according to the total capacity, we produce more than 10 million per day. The N95 is a filter efficiency standard originally referred to in the United States, which is used for industrial dustproof and fog prevention and haze. It corresponds to two kinds of products, one is dust-proof N95, the journalist wears a N95 respirator, another is a medical respirator with a filtration efficiency of 95%, and a medical respirator is more demanding, not only in terms of protection performance, in the production environment, but also in the qualification of enterprises, and the efficiency of medical respirators is more than 95%, and the capacity of such products is 600 thousand. Usually, medical masks are used in hospital isolation wards, fever clinics, etc. With regard to the use of masks in daily protection, CDC recently launched an authoritative guide on the use of masks, and put forward suggestions for classifying and classifying masks.

Wang Wei: let me add. As for the problem of mask, we made a statistics some time ago. At present, the rate of recovery is relatively high. Especially after the outbreak of the epidemic, I went to Pingdingshan, Henan, No. 26 and No. 27. At present, 14 enterprises in Henan and Xinxiang are fully reproducing, and the local strength is very large, and other places are also gradually resuming. There are three kinds of N95 masks as far as I know, including N95 medical, including our anti fog and haze, as well as our industrial protection or non medical protection. People do not know much about many concepts. I think we have the responsibility to understand all these common sense.

In addition, the isolation effect of mask is directly related to its production process. The main raw material of masks is high melt index polypropylene fiber, and domestic capacity is relatively adequate. In 2019, the domestic output was about 900 thousand tons, and one ton could produce 90-100 disposable surgical masks, while the production of N95 medical respirators can only be 20 to 250 thousand. There is no problem with the supply of raw materials. The biggest problem is how raw materials can protect the supply, which is a lot of information asymmetry. In addition to this scheduling platform, like some of our industry associations, we are cooperating with us in doing the work. They are docking the supplier and the demand side.

Everyone should have a basic concept of mask. When I use the mask, it is not the same. Not wearing a N95 mask is a waste. In the red area, our medical respirator can solve the problem. It is equivalent to a reasonable utilization of the shortage of raw materials. At the same time, to protect our health, I will do that.

CNR reporter: at present, all parts of the country are facing the task of epidemic prevention. In the process of emergency allocation of materials to aid Hubei and Wuhan, what are the domestic areas and what contributions have been made?

Huang Libin: since the outbreak of the epidemic, there have been confirmed cases all over the country. They are facing different pressure of epidemic prevention and control. However, we all have a high sense of political responsibility and greater coordination. We try every means to help enterprises resume work and resume production, and overcome their own difficulties. We actively cooperate with the medical and material support group of the joint defense and joint control mechanism of the State Council to make unified arrangements for emergency medical supplies, and do our best to complete the allocation task. "Frugal efforts" to ensure the prevention and control needs in Hubei. For example, Guangxi set up more than 7000 sets of national standard medical protective clothing for local reserve to support Wuhan urgently. For example, with the support of the local government, a lot of work has been done in medical protective clothing, and every place has made great contributions, such as Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Guangdong and other medical protective clothing production provinces. They are also facing the problem of supply and demand balance. However, under the strong organization of the people's government at all levels, we try our best to support the needs of Hubei Wuhan. The epidemic is also on the rise. For example, there are more than 400 confirmed cases in Henan, 340 in Anhui, more than 600 in Guangdong, and more than 220 in Shandong. We will also take account of the needs of these areas.

Under the firm leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, all sides focus on cohesion and unity, and "one side has difficulties and eight sides support" to fully protect the needs of key epidemic areas. On behalf of the Ministry of industry and information technology, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all sides for their support.

Twenty-first Century economic news reporter: with the resumption of work after the holidays, all units have put forward requirements for the temperature test. What is the demand for the infrared thermometer? Can the production capacity be met?

Wang Wei: it should be said that after the launch of the safeguard mechanism for the epidemic, we promptly coordinated the production of the national infrared temperature detector to resume production as soon as possible. Up to now, the yield has reached about 50%. At the same time, we are also following the whole industrial chain's convergence and the same problem as the materials for killing and killing materials. The recovery rate of the production enterprises is a relatively prominent problem. So far, we have received about 20 thousand units from all parts of the world from the infrared temperature detector, and the handheld is 30 million units. In general, the demand is preliminary estimate, and we need to make scientific calculations according to the epidemic prevention and control situation. We expect that the entire demand is about 60 thousand automatic infrared thermometer and about 550 thousand handheld. At present, the output of the automatic infrared thermometer is 700 to 800 per day and the total production capacity is 1500. The handheld is relatively large, and this capacity reaches 15000 units per day. Production enterprises have resumed work in succession, and initial judgement is basically able to meet demand unless the demand for the future rises sharply. We will take some measures, including some of which are not yet needed, but if the enterprises are interested in resuming production or expanding the capacity and purchasing equipment, we actively coordinate the support from the departments concerned in giving funds and so on. Now these units of the people's Bank of China have taken action. The major banks have expressed the necessary support and help for the expansion of such enterprises.

CCTV reporter of the central broadcasting and TV station: Excuse me, Mr Huang, it seems that in addition to the aggravation of the epidemic in Hubei, the epidemic situation in other provinces and cities is also developing. It also requires timely supply and adequate protection of all kinds of medical supplies. May I ask the Ministry of industry and information department about the deployment and arrangement of this demand and whether it can meet this demand after the mobilization of the national production capacity?

Huang Libin: with the joint efforts of various departments and localities, the production and supply of key medical materials is accelerating. However, with the development of the epidemic, the demand is also rising rapidly. The pressure of material support is very arduous.

The CPC Central Committee and the State Council attached great importance to the protection of medical supplies. General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions. Premier Li Keqiang held several meetings to study the deployment of medical supplies. The general office of the State Council promptly issued to all regions and departments an urgent notice on organizing the work of resuming and resuming production and scheduling of epidemic prevention and control key material production enterprises. It urged local governments to fulfill their main responsibilities and promptly organized production enterprises such as medical protective clothing and other key medical and control materials to speed up the resumption of work and rehabilitation, and clearly implemented unified management and unified allocation of key medical protective materials.

In order to do a good job in ensuring the national control and prevention materials, we should speed up the establishment of a material guarantee mechanism for the joint operation.

First, we should do everything possible to implement the source of material supply and ensure the centralized distribution of materials to the forefront of epidemic prevention and control.

The two is to sort out the demand for raw materials protection in the upstream industry chain, and urge the key production enterprises to resume work as soon as possible. The system of stationing staff in enterprises was established, and a special task force headed by the secretary general was sent to 17 key enterprises to help enterprises restore and expand production and supervise the unified allocation of materials.

Three is to study the establishment of epidemic prevention and control materials storage system. The Ministry of industry and information technology will study the storage and purchase system of key medical materials in conjunction with relevant departments to ensure that the needs of all provinces in the country can be effectively addressed in the future.

The four is to establish precise docking mechanism for supply and demand of key materials. According to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, we should grasp the reasonable demand and supply scale, and arrange ahead of schedule to meet the requirements of enterprises to turn production into production and increase production.

The five is to dynamically track the changes in production and demand according to the epidemic situation, the type of infection and the trend of change, and regularly carry out the supply and demand docking with the production capacity and production situation of the enterprises, further refine the production capacity and production plan of the key epidemic prevention materials, and strive to achieve the matching between the supply and demand of the epidemic prevention and control materials and the actual demand, so as to ensure that the scarce materials can be used in the most needed places.

Six, we should do everything possible to expand the diversified supply channels of key materials. In conjunction with the relevant departments, we should study the convergence of export standards and Chinese standards, and provide emergency import of products that conform to the standards of medical protective clothing such as Europe, America and Japan. In addition, during the period of epidemic prevention and control, products that can be repeatedly used after strict disinfection will be reused in accordance with relevant standards.

Xu Zhaofeng: thank the three directors, thank you for your special friends to participate in our press conference. We should pay attention to the protection. Today's conference is over. Please pay more attention to the Ministry of information and the Ministry of industry's new media "micro letter".