As positive progress has been made in the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, local policy “service packages” have been implemented one after another, and my country’s fabric market has sounded the call to resume work and production. Returning to work, resuming production flexibly, and ensuring supply…fabric companies are starting their “engines” and are accelerating.
The implementation of policies promotes a successful opening
A few days ago, the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released the “Survey Report on Enterprise Capacity.” Survey data shows that 67.7% of companies cannot afford a two-week delay in starting operations, only 7.1% can bear a delay of more than one month, and only 1.7% can bear a delay of more than two months.
In order to promote the resumption of work and production of various manufacturing enterprises, local governments have issued relevant rules to support the resumption of work and strictly control the epidemic. Under the impact of the epidemic, reducing the burden on enterprises has become the main measure for local governments to promote the resumption of work and production.
Since the physical market of China Textile City resumed operations on February 18, busy business owners can be seen everywhere in major markets. It is understood that in order to promote the resumption of work and production as soon as possible, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province established an epidemic prevention and control leading group to prepare and issue the “Implementation Opinions on Resolutely Winning the Fight against the New Coronavirus Epidemic and Stabilizing Enterprises, Economy and Stable Development” to help The enterprise formulated the progress of the resumption of work and production plan, completed the resumption of work and production registration, and implemented 11 favorable policies during the epidemic prevention period, including corporate tax exemptions, tax deferrals, unemployment insurance refunds, gas and electricity price reductions, and rent reductions and exemptions. In order to ensure and consolidate the current epidemic prevention results, the government has also dispatched nearly 2,000 company-based service staff to directly serve the China Textile City market and other enterprises, supervise epidemic prevention and control, and help enterprises solve practical difficulties.
“Affected by the epidemic, the company’s start of construction this year has been delayed by 18 days, but I believe that with the efforts of the government and market management, we will definitely regain prosperity.” Talking about the new Regarding the one-year plan, Ye Ruihua, the relevant person in charge of Shaoxing Keqiao Zhanhuang Textile Co., Ltd., said that he is still confident, “The impact of the epidemic on the company is not great. This year we will develop more new products and explore new areas.” The new model of Internet + Textile, with the help of e-commerce platforms such as Alibaba or Amazon, can bring sales to a higher level.”
According to relevant statistics from the China Textile City Construction Management Committee, as of the afternoon of February 19 At 4 o’clock, a total of 15,173 merchants have resumed operations, and a total of 25,670 domestic and foreign buyers have been received in the two days, with a cumulative transaction volume of 364 million yuan.
At the same time, protecting the rights and interests of employees is also an important measure taken by local governments to assist enterprises and stabilize employment.
On February 18, Shishi City, Fujian Province organized a centralized free screening of viral nucleic acid tests for corporate employees coming to Shishi from key areas to move the frontier forward, further consolidate the results of the early epidemic prevention and control work, and support and promote the safe and orderly resumption of work and production of enterprises. On that day, the first batch of 24 employees of Shishi Huilong Chemical Fiber Textile Co., Ltd. from Jiangxi accepted sample collection. “Only when all employees return to work in good health can the company put into production in the best spirit and state.” said the relevant person in charge of the company.
It is understood that in order to welcome the wave of resumption of work and ensure that the resumption of production and epidemic prevention and control are balanced, the Shishi Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government proactively provide services, adopt financial footing methods, and encourage enterprises to actively organize visits to Shishi in key areas. Company employees are subject to centralized viral nucleic acid testing and screening. Currently, Shishi City has 10 health liaison officers from grassroots medical and health institutions and 5 municipal health liaison officers who have entered enterprises to assist the city’s resumption of work team in guiding enterprises to resume work, including assisting enterprises to conduct health checks such as employees’ body temperature and physical signs and to establish health files. ; Isolate, report and monitor those with abnormal physical signs; guide enterprise disinfection specialists to carry out standardized disinfection work in factories, dormitories, etc.
Reducing pressure on exports reduces corporate losses
“The world is anxiously waiting for the Chinese market to return to normal.” Germany’s Focus ” Weekly commented on February 17 that China is the world’s factory and the “engine” of the world economy. The world hopes that China will speed up its pace of resumption of work.
As a company focusing on foreign trade, many orders of Zhejiang Red Green Blue Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. have been placed before the Spring Festival, and now they cannot be made in time The start of construction will have a certain impact on order delivery and subsequent order returns. However, Huang Xinming, the company’s deputy general manager, said that through active communication and explanations with customers, many customers expressed understanding.
In fact, the reporter learned that if a company is unable to perform as scheduled or cannot perform international trade contracts due to the impact of the epidemic, and will have to bear contract losses, reputation damage and other impacts, as long as it provides supporting materials that meet the requirements, The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade can issue a factual certificate of force majeure. This certificate has been widely recognized by governments, customs, chambers of commerce and enterprises in more than 200 countries and regions around the world.
Huang Xinming said: “The proactive policies introduced by the government have helped companies reduce losses to a certain extent. We believe that the difficulties are only temporary. This epidemic has made the government and companies, companies and employees more united, allowing companies to Inside�Being more aware of worries and overall situation will be helpful to the company’s long-term development. ”
Actively promote paperless processes, optimize export tax refund (exemption) services, increase credit support, issue force majeure factual certificates, and implement more preferential import tax policies… Relevant departments in various places are currently A number of policies and measures have been launched in a targeted manner to help enterprises create a good business environment and facilitate foreign trade import and export. Many experts in the industry pointed out that export enterprises should take into account the actual situation, reasonably schedule production, resume work properly, and discuss with partners to overcome difficulties together This strategy can reduce the risk of buyers transferring orders as much as possible and ensure that enterprises can resume normal and full production in the future.
According to a research report released by McKinsey China, among the world’s seven largest economies, technology From the perspective of trade, capital and capital, the dependence of the world market on the Chinese market increased from 0.4 in 2000 to 1.2 in 2017; during the same period, the dependence of the Chinese market on the world market dropped from 0.8 to 0.6.
“The epidemic broke out in China, the ‘world’s factory’. Although China’s economic activities have been affected to a certain extent, global manufacturers will certainly feel the impact later. Therefore, fabric export companies must not only have the confidence to defeat the epidemic, but also have the sincerity to join hands with partners. “An industry expert analyzed it.
Resumption of work and mutual assistance to reduce operating burdens
Under the impact of the epidemic, corporate social responsibility It highlights that enterprises returning to work also help each other based on their own operating characteristics.
A few days ago, the Online Textile City issued a “Complaint to Merchants” and launched a number of “hard core” measures to overcome the difficulties with all member merchants and textile companies. The “Business Reporter” shows that the measures launched this time focus on “increasing online services to help textile companies quickly resume operations” and “supply chain financial services to provide enterprises with “Providing financial support” and “application is faster, and market merchants can resume business online registration”.
For current paid members of Yifangtong online store within the contract period, the Online Textile City will be under the current contract After expiration, the service period will be extended for one quarter free of charge. During the epidemic, new paid members who join the Yifangtong online store will have an additional quarter of service period free of charge, and zero-contact online signing will be implemented, which is safe and worry-free. At the same time, for China Textile City operators and textile enterprises have opened green channels to assist in settling in online shops, and exclusive customer service guides operations, with constant business opportunities 24 hours a day; they have increased merchant promotion efforts on Baidu, 360 and other channels to attract traffic and customers for platform merchants; in response to the epidemic For the supply and demand information of materials and related supply chain products, dedicated personnel will be assigned to give priority to manual matching.
During the epidemic, in order to simplify the application process for merchants to resume operations in China Textile City, the platform also developed the “Smart Textile City Protection” Mini program. Han Chong, CEO of Online Textile City and Global Textile Network, said that the system was officially launched on February 15, and 47,573 market operators have registered online in less than a week. “Although 2020 has started The situation is not good, the epidemic is serious, and the foreign trade situation is still grim, but we textile people have the support and encouragement of the country and the government behind us, and we are full of hope for the future. Textile City operators must turn challenges into opportunities, stabilize production and promote trade, use the Internet to find business opportunities, and be prepared for the “retaliatory” demand that is likely to appear after the epidemic is over. ”
The fabric market is also providing services to fight the epidemic prevention and control battle. On February 21, the China Oriental Silk Market officially opened, and the commercial areas of the market were busy with traffic, gradually reappearing the busy scene of the past.
“Judging from the opening of the market on the first day, the resumption rate of market operators has reached 80%, and textile merchants from all over the world can come to purchase and negotiate. It is expected that work and markets can be fully resumed by the end of February. Sun Jianhua, director of the China Oriental Silk Market Management Office, said: “We actively implement and issue corresponding policy support, requiring operators who rent state-owned assets to implement the policy of ‘one exemption, two half reduction’, that is, 1 month’s rent The rent for two months will be waived or reduced by half; it is recommended that collective owners and private owners be encouraged to reduce or reduce rents for tenants accordingly. “
In addition, it is worth noting that financial institutions have also provided relevant financial services to help enterprises. For example, China CITIC Bank Fuzhou Branch rushed to formulate the “Ten Measures” to fully support small and micro enterprises in coping with the epidemic and overcoming difficulties together. , including increasing loans to epidemic-related enterprises, helping distressed enterprises resume operations, arranging special loan scales, lowering loan interest rates, etc.
“This loan suddenly solved the problem of funds for enterprises to resume production of epidemic prevention materials. Turnaround problem. “The loan mentioned by Gao Yanfei, chairman of Fujian Xingjing Trading Co., Ltd., is a 5 million yuan loan issued by the Fuzhou Branch of China CITIC Bank to the enterprise. The company is mainly engaged in the sales of textile materials, textiles, masks, etc., and the loan is earmarked for Yu purchases raw and auxiliary materials for masks from the upstream company Fujian Jingwei New Fiber Technology Industrial Co., Ltd. “As the trade volume of anti-epidemic materials continues to increase, this loan is like a ‘timely rain’ for the company. “Gao Yanfei said.
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