SHANGHAI/JINAN, Feb. 3 -- China is making every effort to ensure the supply of medical and daily necessities for citizens as the country battles the novel coronavirus epidemic.
The novel coronavirus epidemic has triggered a sharp increase in demand for masks for citizens and protective clothing for medical workers. Companies have been mobilized to run at full capacity to produce these high-demand materials.
PRODUCTION AT FULL CAPACITY
Since the novel coronavirus outbreak, residents have rushed to buy masks. However, shelves in physical stores are empty, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to buy masks online. Hospitals in the hardest-hit city of Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province are also in urgent need of medical materials.
Medical material manufacturers have resumed production despite the shutdown period of the Spring Festival holiday to cope with the problem.
In the city of Zaozhuang, east China's Shandong Province, over 300 workers from Kangli Medical volunteered to work during the holiday.
"Orders have soared in the past two weeks, and we have ensured that our machines will run 24 hours a day," said Lyv Zuopin, the company's deputy general manager.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) decided on Jan. 29 to send special representatives to 15 companies that produce medical protective clothing.
Kangli Medical, listed among the selected companies, can make a total of 1,200 protective clothing items a day. With the help of ministry officials, the company has been urgently allocating raw materials and purchasing equipment to expand production scale.
Given the unexpectedly high demand, the mask and medical device manufacturers in Shanghai have also managed to resume and ramp up production.
Shanghai Yuanqin Purification Technology Company, a protective mask manufacturer for Honeywell, has been in full production with 40,000 to 45,000 masks being made every day since last week.
Liao Huolin, the company's president, said the factory had planned to suspend work on Jan. 17, but it urgently recalled its employees who had returned to their hometowns and also invited nearby villagers to assist in production after the novel coronavirus outbreak.
Shanghai has recovered its mask production capacity with a daily output of over 1 million masks, the Shanghai municipal government said last week.
According to the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, a total of 17 mask manufacturers in Shanghai are gradually resuming their production, and the daily production capacity can reach 4 million after the companies reach a full production scale.
SUPPLIES SUSTAINED
Detection reagents are also in urgent demand. The reagent manufacturers have also joined the coronavirus fight.
Shanghai BioGerm Medical Biotechnology Co., Ltd. is one of the novel coronavirus detection reagent manufacturers approved by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most of the company's employees canceled their trips home for the holiday and returned to their posts.
"It's not about the money. We are honored to work for our country at this moment," said Zhou Yan, the company's director of operations.
With the high demand for detection reagents, employees from the sales department even took high-speed trains and planes to deliver goods in person to make sure the reagents could be delivered as soon as possible.
The preventive traffic restrictions taken by the authorities to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus have to some extent affected transportation of supplies entering the coronavirus-stricken area.
The government, however, has pledged efforts to sustain the continuous supply of necessities to coronavirus-stricken areas, with the National Development and Reform Commission arranging daily transport of vegetables, cooking oil, rice and flour to Wuhan.
Alibaba's Cainiao Logistics has also coordinated with courier firms to deliver 300,000 medical supply items to Wuhan from Beijing, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and other provincial-level regions such as Gansu, Sichuan, Hunan, Liaoning and Hainan. The medical supplies include the urgently-needed surgical masks, isolation gowns, protective gowns and goggles.
SUPPLY OF DAILY NECESSITIES SECURED
Farmers in the city of Shouguang, Shandong Province, China's major vegetable production base, are also making a contribution by providing vegetables for Wuhan.
Sang Xuemei, a farmer in Sangjiazhuang Village, got up at about 3:00 a.m., put on a headlamp and walked into the field.
"Every family has bought headlamps to pick vegetables in the dark," she said. "We used to pick vegetables in the afternoon, but we changed the schedule to deliver the freshest vegetables to Wuhan."
Two hours later, she sent 250 kg of freshly-picked cucumbers to the agricultural product examination center at the village's cooperative where cooperative members were busy loading the vegetables onto trucks heading for Wuhan after they were examined.
"China is battling against the epidemic, and we as farmers should make sure that people can eat vegetables as normal," she added.
On Jan. 28, Shandong donated 350 tonnes of vegetables to Wuhan and has been providing 600 tonnes of vegetables to Wuhan at par price daily since then.
The winter season, Spring Festival holiday and preventive transport restrictions in different areas put in place to contain the epidemic affected logistics and resulted in price hikes of some commodities. However, market authorities have worked to crack down on abnormal price hikes by dealers who took advantage of the epidemic situation.
With concerted efforts, the supply of daily necessities in Wuhan and the whole of Hubei Province as well as other places in China has been secured, said Lian Weiliang, deputy head of the National Development and Reform Commission, at a press conference in Beijing, on Monday.
Some problems, such as less varieties of leafy vegetables and delayed replenishment due to logistics, still exist and efforts are underway to solve these shortcomings, Lian said.
Liu Liansen, a resident in the city of Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province, wore a mask and shopped at a local supermarket on Sunday. He bought some green onions, garlic, pork ribs and Chinese cabbage.
"Several days ago, I was worried that there would not be enough supplies of daily necessities, so I rushed to the supermarket. But I was assured when I found that there are ample supplies of rice, cooking oil, vegetables and meat," he said.
时事资讯:世卫建议先给医护人员接种甲流疫苗
时事资讯:六成美国人支持二战时向日本投原子弹
时事资讯:09年奥巴马独立纪念日献词
特朗普轻松赢得内华达州初选
时事资讯:花旗将与联邦存款保险签署秘密协议
沙特表示 石油减产不会发生
美国智库称中国在华阳礁建雷达塔
时事资讯:"奥巴马"进入俚语词典 意思为"酷"
时事资讯:雅虎错失良机
时事资讯:美国养育孩子成本高昂
时事资讯:意总理"有染"应召女郎获盛邀出席巴黎派对
中国武器出口继续激增 China arms exports continue to surge
时事资讯:英首相夫人写博客 爆"G8夫人峰会"内幕
北京外国语大学网络教育学院2013上半年BEC考试报名时间
中国将派军舰参加在美国夏威夷举行的环太军演
时事资讯:奥巴马选大使唯"钱"是举?
时事资讯:一条小鱼可以拯救你的听力?
暨南大学外国语学院2013年3月BEC中级报名时间
时事资讯:社交网站好友申请爆棚 盖茨无奈退出
时事资讯:俄士兵配给新变化:糖果换香烟
时事资讯:法第一夫人献声曼德拉生日音乐会
时事资讯:伊朗客机坠毁 168人罹难
时事资讯:中国网民人数达到3.38亿
联合国一官员称中美就制裁朝鲜达成一致
时事资讯:央视女记者因受贿罪获刑
时事资讯:《建国大业》引来明星国籍之争
澳大利亚大幅增加国防开支
时事资讯:意总理女儿公开指责老爸与女模曝绯闻
暨南大学珠海校区2013年3月剑桥BEC中级报考通知
时事资讯:作别Vista,携手Windows 7
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |