A Repeat List Of Manufacturing Enterprises: Thousands Of Daily Masks, And Guangdong Starts A "Warm Business" Mode.

This Spring Festival, Zhong Yong long did not go back to his hometown, nor did he do well.

He is the head of a manufacturing company in Dongguan. The factory was on holiday in January 21st, but the epidemic was raging. From the beginning of the year, he was busy taking disinfection of plants, arranging prevention and control measures, and resettlement of factory workers.

According to the original plan, the company started work in the fourth quarter, but the epidemic disrupted the pace. In addition to a few exceptions, Guangdong's resumption of work is not earlier than 24 February 9th.

Zhong Yonglong is looking forward to the early arrival of this day to ease the pressure of orders delivery, employee turnover and rigid cost brought about by the stop production, but at the same time, there is no feeling at all. Because the company, which has about 2500 workers, needs to consume thousands of masks every day after resuming work. The reserves in the factory can only support for about a week under inadequate conditions. In recent days, no matter how Zhong Yong long looks for it, he can never find a mask to buy, and alcohol is also the case.

This is not an isolated case. Recently, a number of manufacturing enterprises interviewed by the twenty-first Century economic news reporter have the same concerns. An industrial enterprise concentrated in the WeChat group, carrying out a demand for anti epidemic supplies, and instantly summed up hundreds of thousands of masks.

"No epidemic prevention capability can not be resumed, and the enterprises will not be able to support it if they do not return to work." Zhong Yonglong said.

As a response to the concerns of enterprises, the policy responds quickly. In February 6th, the Guangdong provincial government issued a number of policies and measures to support the resumption and resumption of production of new pneumonia caused by new coronavirus infection. It is clear that refinement of the resumption of work and recovery plan will help enterprises to coordinate and solve the problem of prevention and control of materials purchase, such as masks, protective clothing, disinfectants and thermometers.

Shortage of epidemic prevention materials in manufacturing enterprises

Zhong Yonglong's Dongguan Guang Ze automobile decorations Co., Ltd. is a supplier of many famous car companies both at home and abroad. Although the automation transformation has been carried out in recent years, there are still about 2500 employees.

In January 21st, the company began to take a vacation. Some unfinished orders were planned to start production at the beginning of four, which was delivered rapidly, with a value of about about 10000000. However, the sudden outbreak of the new crown pneumonia caused the plan to fail, and thus brought tremendous pressure to the enterprises.

"We must ensure the safety and speedy resumption of production when the government is allowed to resume work, otherwise there will be risks such as breach of contract, loss of customers and loss of employees." Zhong Yonglong said.

At present, the time for resuming work in Guangdong at 24 o'clock in February 9th is approaching, but this is only the policy level of "resuming work". From the perspective of enterprises, the current resumption of work is more prominent as a capability requirement and depends on whether there is enough epidemic prevention material to form a safety guarantee.

This is Zhong Yonglong's problem. He said that according to an employee who needs at least 2 masks a day, the factory needs thousands of masks per day. Even considering the gradual progress and initial shortage, the company's current reserves are barely enough to support for a week or so.

"What should I do after I run out? I don't know now. Zhong Yonglong said that after seeing the comprehensive development of the epidemic, he immediately began to buy masks, alcohol and other epidemic prevention materials everywhere, but he found all the channels he knew and got nothing. The only fortunate thing is that a familiar supplier has made over ten barrels of disinfectant water for its urgent solution.

"If we can't buy masks and alcohol, the epidemic will not be eliminated. We dare not risk thousands of people to start work together." Zhong Yonglong said.

The same problem is encountered in Foshan's sun Feng Enterprise Group. "After the resumption of work, I was very worried about the lack of anti epidemic materials." Xu Tenghui, President of the group, said that after the outbreak of the epidemic, the company quickly purchased a batch of respirators and thermometers from abroad, but it only used for half a month, and now it is becoming more and more difficult to purchase from domestic and foreign channels. The company has more than 4000 employees.

A more typical scenario is that the Guangdong Industrial Park Association recently launched a demand for anti epidemic supplies among its members, WeChat group. It soon gathered more than hundreds of thousands of masks, and the demand for temperature gauze, gloves, alcohol and so on remained huge.

Some people in some local industrial parks in Guangdong said that with the approaching of reemployment, enterprises are anxious to purchase less than epidemic prevention materials.

In twenty-first Century, the economic news reporter noted that the demand from various parks was not small, especially from the non Pearl River Delta region of Guangdong province. For example, a person in a city in eastern Guangdong Province said that the park needed 50 thousand masks and 100 body guns. A man at a county level industrial park in northern Guangdong also said that the enterprises in the park urgently needed 50 thousand masks and 500 bottles of disinfectant.

The association of Guangdong Industrial Park Association said that after the aggregate demand, the association was looking for supply resources through multiple channels, hoping to avoid the lack of protective materials for all parks, and could not return to work in time.

Enterprises call for epidemic prevention guidelines

Since the overall development of the epidemic, the shortage of anti epidemic materials such as masks has always been the focus.

There are factors behind this outbreak. Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Information Office's epidemic prevention and control news conference, Tu Gaokun, director of the Guangdong provincial industrial and commercial office, said that the epidemic coincided with the Spring Festival holiday. Many factories had already been on holiday, and the demand for masks and protective clothing increased sharply in a short time. These belonged to special materials, but they were not commonly used, and they all had storage validity period, and the reserves of enterprises and medical institutions were limited, thus causing the recent shortage of such materials nationwide.

To this end, the whole country, including Guangdong, promoted the rapid recovery of enterprises and increased international procurement and increased supply at the first time. The national development and Reform Commission disclosed that as of February 3rd, the production of respirators in 22 key provinces of the country has reached 14 million 806 thousand, an increase of 3.1% over the previous day, and the utilization rate of production reached 67%, and the ratio increased by 2 percentage points. At the same time, it encourages enterprises to increase production and supply again, and emphasizes that the surplus production after the outbreak of the epidemic will be taken up by the government.

A number of respondents said that the next step is to continue to restore and upgrade the capacity of the epidemic prevention materials, which is expected to gradually solve the need for enterprises to resume work. However, it is still necessary to make necessary arrangements for the supply of anti epidemic materials for enterprises to resume work on the basis of giving priority to the frontline of medical front-line and community prevention and control.

"We need to solve the problem that some enterprises are unable to return to work because there is no epidemic prevention materials, but the more important thing is to form a safeguard mechanism and stabilize expectations and eliminate tension." Zhong Yonglong said.

In fact, some grass-roots practices in Guangdong have begun to take action. In February 5th, as a major industrial economy in Guangzhou, Whampoa District, Guangzhou Development Zone and Guangzhou high tech Zone in Guangzhou issued eight "warm enterprises", and put forward a docking platform for production, supply and demand of emergency materials, so as to ensure that the resumption enterprises first purchased urgently needed masks, thermometers, disinfectant and other anti epidemic materials, carried out free distribution services, and prioritized virus screening and testing to fully protect the normal production and operation of enterprises.

In twenty-first Century, the economic news reporter was informed that this mode includes the opening of "online purchase of epidemic materials" online channel to collect business needs, and then the relevant departments of the region to dispatch supplies daily.

This flexibility also addresses the real needs. The above Guangdong Industrial Park Association also said that enterprises will purchase and store materials for prevention and control as far as possible, but such as disinfectant alcohol is a flammable product. If it is not well managed, it will easily breed a hidden danger of safety, so we need to pay attention to it and solve it.

Further, not only is the epidemic prevention material guarantee, but many respondents have indicated that governments at all levels should formulate relevant policies and mechanisms for epidemic prevention after the resumption of work as soon as possible, effectively standardize and guide enterprises, and strengthen the building and upgrading of enterprise's epidemic prevention capacity as a whole.

"Our enterprises will mainly prevent the epidemic by eliminating meetings, telecommuting, and batching meals, but this should not be enough. For example, we do not have isolation facilities, nor do we have any relevant experience. We need more professional guidance and support from the government." Xu Tenghui said.