On February 10, most areas across the country ushered in the resumption of work. The epidemic has made the economy, which carries many major node tasks this year, face a more complicated start. While preventing the epidemic, an economic defense war has begun as companies resume work. Under the current situation, what is the operating capacity of textile enterprises? Can we achieve “epidemic prevention and work with both hands, and both hands must be strong”?
1 Do not apply “one size fits all” and resume work in an orderly manner according to the actual situation
On February 8, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council in response to the novel coronavirus pneumonia (hereinafter referred to as “COVID-19”) issued the “Notice on Effectively Strengthening Scientific Prevention and Control of the Epidemic and Orderly Resuming Work and Production of Enterprises” (hereinafter (referred to as “Notice”). The notice requires that all regions and departments must not only do a good job in epidemic prevention and control after returning from the Spring Festival and resuming work and production to ensure the safety and health of people; they must also promptly coordinate and solve the difficulties and problems in resuming work and production, so as to return to normal as soon as possible production, providing sufficient material support for epidemic prevention and control, and providing strong support for stabilizing the overall economic and social situation.
On February 9, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the “Notice on Response to the Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic and Helping Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Resume Work and Production and Overcome Difficulties Together”, making it clear that all efforts will be taken to ensure that enterprises have 20 items in six aspects including resuming work and production in an orderly manner, further strengthening financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises, further strengthening financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises, further strengthening innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises, further strengthening public services for small and medium-sized enterprises, and further strengthening overall planning and coordination. measures to help the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises strengthen their confidence, strengthen measures, achieve orderly resumption of work and production, and overcome difficulties.
The Ministry of Commerce stated at a press conference on February 9 that on the premise of implementing epidemic prevention and control measures, it will guide local governments in scientific assessment, hierarchical control, highlighting key points, and gradually expanding the scope. Areas with severe epidemics should prioritize the resumption of daily necessities businesses and increase supply outlets to facilitate people’s lives. In areas where the epidemic is not so serious, the scope of business operations in multiple formats must be appropriately expanded, and “one size fits all” and one-size-fits-all policies can no longer be adopted.
On February 9, the Shanghai Municipal Economic and Information Technology Commission issued the “Notice on the Resumption of Work and Production of Enterprises”. The notice requires that the principle of “four priorities” be adhered to – for matters related to epidemic prevention and control, Enterprises that are necessary for the national economy and people’s livelihood, ensuring urban operation and people’s lives are given priority to ensure the resumption of work. According to the “Four Theory of Heroes”, enterprises with high economic contribution are given priority to ensure the resumption of work. Enterprises with sufficient market orders and effective prevention and control measures are given priority to ensure the resumption of work. Core managers, Skilled front-line workers are given priority to resume work.
In accordance with national statutory holidays, Chengdu has gradually arranged for enterprises to resume work in an orderly manner starting from February 3.
The Office of the Zhejiang Provincial Epidemic Prevention and Control Leading Group stated on February 9 that it is necessary to coordinate and grasp the relationship between epidemic prevention and control, people’s livelihood security, and the resumption of work and production, and it is not allowed to arbitrarily control the sale of vegetables, grains, oils, meat, eggs, milk, etc. Chain stores, convenience stores and other business outlets that provide daily necessities for residents must be closed at once, and express delivery, takeout and other industries related to people’s daily life must not be arbitrarily restricted from resuming work and delivery services.
Shaoxing City has issued the “Implementation Opinions on the Resumption of Work and Epidemic Prevention and Control of Enterprises in the City”. Shaoxing City’s resumption of work enterprises (including industrial enterprises, construction enterprises, service enterprises, agricultural enterprises, etc.) must strictly implement “Four must” prevention and control commitments. The “Opinions” pointed out that it is necessary to strictly follow the requirements of “preventing the spread of existing stocks and preventing incremental imports” and implement “orderly deregulation” to ensure that Shaoxing enterprises resume work in an orderly manner and the epidemic is controllable. Under the premise of strictly implementing epidemic prevention measures, we should organize and ensure the resumption of production as soon as possible to ensure the operation of public utilities, epidemic prevention and control, people’s daily necessities, key project construction and other related enterprises that are important to the national economy and people’s livelihood. Other companies will resume work in batches and in an orderly manner after 24:00 on February 9: important export companies, listed companies, key manufacturing companies, and companies with high per-acre profits that have epidemic prevention and control in place, a clear number of workers returning to work, and a large proportion of local employees. Enterprises will be given priority for approval to resume work; if the conditions for resumption of work have not been met, after approval, senior executives and key personnel can be arranged to return to work to prepare for resumption of work; some areas with heavier prevention and control tasks can appropriately postpone the resumption of work according to the actual situation.
In Guangdong, another major economic province with a large migrant population, many financial, consulting, logistics and other tertiary industry companies have gradually resumed operations on the 10th.
In contrast, the heads of manufacturing companies are taking a cautious wait-and-see attitude, and many small, medium and micro enterprises have temporarily postponed it until a week later. Taking textile clusters and textile and apparel markets where migrants gather densely as examples, many markets have issued announcements to postpone the resumption of work.
Guangzhou Baima Clothing Market, Hongmian International Fashion City, Guangzhou International Textile City, Guangzhou Textile Trading Park, Haimen Industrial Park, Dieshi Qiao Home Textile Market, Haining China Home Textile City, Zhongda Textile Business District, etc. have all issued change notices to postpone the opening of the market indefinitely. It can be seen that the resumption of work and the opening of markets in various places still need to be carefully arranged based on actual conditions.
2 Survey on operating capacity fully reflects the plight of textile and garment enterprises
Yes�Material production enterprises work overtime to produce, and the overtime wages of employees included in the supporting enterprises will be subsidized in the provincial industrial development funds in accordance with national regulations. Enterprises that are included in the provincial support and meet certain conditions are transformed into the production of masks, protective clothing, etc., and those that produce products that meet the standards will be subsidized by provincial industrial development funds based on 50% of the enterprise’s equipment investment.
On February 3, Winner Fashion Group actively responded to the government’s call, urgently convened employee training in Shenzhen, efficiently transformed the sterile workshop, used advanced intelligent production lines, and quickly added production protection The ranks of service.
Mask samples designed by PEACEBIRD.
Guangyuan knitting production line.
Ningbo garment enterprises jointly acted in a race against time to build a network with Peacebird providing design solutions and logistics, Guangyuan Knitting, Lanhe Medical and other enterprises providing raw materials, and Minglang Clothing and other enterprises organizing production capacity. Temporary mask production supply chain to meet urgent needs.
Bainiao Bird stated that Shanghai Baoniao Clothing Co., Ltd., a company controlled by the company, was entrusted by the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission to urgently set up an isolation gown production line at its factory in Songjiang District, Shanghai, to help fight the epidemic.
Home textile company Huafang Co., Ltd. stated on the investor relations platform on February 7 that in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Binzhou Municipal Government on the current epidemic prevention and control work, the company has temporarily converted part of its production capacity to produce civilian masks. Now under intense production, the daily output has reached 20,000 pieces.
In addition, Foxconn, SAIC-GM-Wuling and other companies have also “transformed” and switched to producing masks. Diaper and underwear manufacturers such as Daddy Baby, Sanqiang Underwear, Hongdou Clothing, and Mercury Home Textiles have also changed their production plans and switched to producing masks.
As the world’s largest yarn-dyed fabric base, Luthai Textile will start operations on February 9 Work has resumed. More than 13,000 workers have returned to work and began processing and producing various international orders. The resumption rate has reached more than 90%. According to reports, the company has established a strict epidemic prevention system, strict internal management, and implemented a strict control system for employees returning to work. Employees’ temperatures are measured twice a day, and workshops, office spaces, and activity areas are disinfected three times a day. At the same time, a large amount of prevention and control materials were purchased to ensure personnel and production safety.
Each production unit of Weiqiao Textile focuses on epidemic prevention and control with one hand and resumption of production with the other, so as to achieve both the battle against the epidemic and the resumption of production to ensure that post-holiday production proceeds in an orderly manner. Before the Spring Festival, all branches made overall arrangements and made adequate preparations in advance such as workshop insulation, package preparation, and personnel coordination. On the first day of work during the Spring Festival, the temperature and humidity of the workshop reached the requirements for start-up, and personnel were in place in time. At present, the equipment in each workshop of the weaving factory is being put into operation one after another, and the equipment in each process of the spinning department is also being put in place. In the single-staff dormitory area, strict temperature checks and registration are carried out for those entering and exiting. In strict accordance with the relevant requirements issued by the Binzhou City New Coronavirus Infection Pneumonia Epidemic Response Leading Group (Headquarters) Office, all employees returning to Binzhou from outside the province will be quarantined for medical observation for 14 days, and all employees returning to Binzhou from outside the province will undergo medical observation at home. Observe for 36 hours. At the same time, dedicated personnel will regularly disinfect the stairwells, corridors, toilets, doors and windows in the dormitory area.
In addition to the resumption of work by front-line production companies, data from the online office platform Alibaba DingTalk shows that within a few days of the start of work after the Spring Festival, more than 2 million companies have organized online health information management, and nearly 100 million people use it every day Alibaba’s DingTalk health check-in function “reports safety” to the unit. About 200 million people work and hold video conferences on the platform… to reduce the risk of epidemic spread caused by centralized office work.
With the rapid development of mobile Internet today, online conferencing and online office work have become the priority choices for many units to resume work and production, providing strong support for the orderly development of all work. At the same time, local government affairs are also accelerating to move to the cloud, and various businesses are encouraged to be handled online. The suspension of processing that really needs to be handled offline will not be considered overdue. We will do our best to facilitate employees during this special period and strive to ensure that all work is carried out in an orderly manner without interruption.
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