The Lantern Festival, the crazy mask market is expected to stabilize.
On the one hand, the supply side began to power.
February 8, the China Textile Industry Federation revealed that more than 60% of the medical and health textile enterprises have started to resume production. Mapping of thousands of enterprises, including masks, protective clothing, etc., Changyi members of the enterprise resumption of work, resumption of production.
As of noon on the 7th, Sinopec has docked with its partners to complete 11 mask production lines, and is about to enter the equipment installation process. According to preliminary estimates, Sinopec will help the new mask production capacity of 130,000 pieces per day, 29, to achieve the new capacity to 600,000 pieces per day.
In addition, the tangible hand began to intervene. Previously on February 5, the State Administration of Market Supervision issued a notice, requiring from the heavy from the strict and fast investigation and handling of masks and other prevention and control of material price violations.
More than half a month, witnessed the mask market all kinds of chaos of volunteers Yan Zhen (a pseudonym), still palpitating.
"Sell fake goods, collect money without delivery of fraud, hoarding middlemen, I have seen." Words of true righteous indignation.
Since January 21, a period of 19 days, the mask market submerged.
Huge demand raid
But Li Ke's Taobao store focuses on mother and baby and other daily necessities, masks are just the Korean products he usually buy on behalf of the hand.
Under the rush, Li Ke store masks quickly out of stock.
In order to meet the high demand of customers as much as possible, Li Ke canceled the original scheduled trip, began to actively look for goods.
Even if Li Ke store on the shelves for a long time to sell masks from Japan, South Korea, the hand has accumulated some local supplier resources, but looking for masks, Li Ke began to feel unusually difficult.
"In the past, everyone imported cosmetics and skin care products from South Korea, and rarely imported masks from South Korea. Our mask demand for South Korea also sudden. Not to mention that Korea is also on vacation for Chinese New Year." Leek said.
As of February 4, Li Ke store KF94 masks more than monthly sales of 25,000, is currently showing out of stock.
As a daily necessities Taobao store, Li Ke did not expect to also receive from the medical supplies emergency hospitals and epidemic front line demand.
The supplies are tight, he chose to keep the masks for private use to send to the more needy places.
"On January 30th, a little girl in Wuhan didn't have a mask, so I prioritized the masks I left for personal use to be couriered to her." Li Ke, who is in Hangzhou, believes that people in Wuhan need masks more than he does.
In Li Ke's view, the mask situation is changing every day, these days he is "pushed".
The e-commerce origin of the words really have similar feelings.
According to the true statement, the night of New Year's Eve, he has no intention of New Year's Eve.
He saw in a WeChat group that there is a first-line hospital said gap cover and protective clothing; another group, he saw a warm-hearted people and foundations said that they want to raise supplies for the first line but the lack of channels; in the circle of friends, he saw that some people said that there is a source of goods.
"I just want to gather information to facilitate the demand and supply docking." On the first day of the year, the word really built a new group, the collection of the original work can be contacted by the mask factory resources available to those in need.
To the surprise of Yan Zhen, he established a WeChat group to attract more and more people.
"It's amazing that people are constantly looking for me, people are constantly coming into the group, and there is no shortage of first-tier hospitals purchasing urgent help."
A local health bureau asked for help from Yan Zhen Interviewee for photo
Profit-seekers flocked
Before the outbreak, the domestic market would not have been gaping hood.
Data released by the China Textile Business Association showed that 4.54 billion masks were produced in 2018.
On January 29, China's Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei said during his research in Tianjin that China's maximum production capacity of masks is more than 20 million per day.
However, the outbreak of demand for masks coincided with the shutdown of mask factories during the Spring Festival.
January 28, the city of mask production, inventory after a comprehensive survey, the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, said the shortage of masks is due to the Spring Festival holiday shutdown, "the vast majority of the 26 production enterprises in Shanghai have stopped production and vacation, the workers to return to their hometowns, raw materials stop supply, logistics shutdown."
Mask factory shutdown, demand surged, "from the first day of the New Year (January 25), the battle for masks has begun." Yanzhen said.
According to Yan Zhen observation, starting on the 25th, have access to the manufacturer's resources, such as micro-merchants and other roles will smell the business opportunities, began to coax 3M and other brands of masks.
On the 26th, he heard the news that 3M agents began to control the masks, which indicates that in addition to the formal institutions, since then, claiming to get the domestic 3M mask sellers are not trustworthy.
27, the words really found that there is a stock of masks factory external supply figure appeared.
In the face of limited mask resources, middlemen have hoarding phenomenon.
The market speculation on the price of masks, more so that the word true abhorrence.
The true story reveals that there are masks in the middleman in order to make a profit, after receiving multiple copies of the payment, will try to stretch the time to compare prices, and ultimately sold to the buyer with a high bid.
The more desperate Yan Zhen is that the middleman between the supplier and the buyer, far more than one.
Yan Zhen said, ordinary single medical masks from the source of a few cents, through multi-hand resale, it will become the market 4 yuan and even more up. "Many micro-businesses pop up, you do not know how many hands the masks that arrive have passed through."
Ordinary consumers, as the end of the multi-level chain, to buy a regular mask at a relatively reasonable price "difficult to get.
On the evening of February 4, in the words of the real establishment of the "mask - protective clothing needs group", a netizen sent out a message: "Existing 20 Japanese N95 masks, with air valve, three days can be received, 65 dollars a."
Interviewee photo
After being questioned by the group of friends expensive, the netizen posted a comparison of the price of e-commerce the same type of masks sold, said his price is reasonable.
And half a month ago on January 20, 3 a pack of 3M brand N95 masks in Ali Pharmacy is 30 yuan, the unit price is only 10 yuan.
Counterfeits crept into the market.
Because of the worry that the first line of procurement to the masks, the word really set up a "medical material identification group", the source can be sent to the group to seek the identification of doctors and other professionals within the group.
During this time, the word really found that the group identified up to 80% of the fake goods.
Volunteers coordinating the protection of the material on the chaotic angry Interviewed by the picture
What's more, direct "empty gloves" fraud.
Yizhen had a personal experience. "The liar said manufacturers direct supply, after receiving the money will be three times to shirk the shipment, a moment to say that the customs can not, a moment to say that the logistics can not, the net will be spread wide after the roll of money to run away."
Since then, in order to avoid similar phenomena, the word really has been to buyers to emphasize the need for more vigilance on the upstream sellers, suggesting that it is easy to recover the money bank remittance mode.
However, under the WeChat fission spread, buyers are still one after another into the scam.
"Many scams would not have been difficult to recognize, but most of the demand side for masks is very urgent, in the front line of the tight situation, there is not enough time to identify clearly." Words of truth feel intentional.
Overseas sources are a drop in the bucket
At the same time, overseas sources keep popping up.
According to Yan Zhen, foreign sources of masks from countries very rich, as far as he observed, there are the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, India and Russia and other countries.
However, overseas sources in meeting market demand, but a drop in the bucket.
In South Korea, for example, Jiang Han (a pseudonym), a longtime resident of Lianyungang, volunteered to help domestic buyers dock with South Korean suppliers for mask purchases after demand for masks exploded.
"The industrial chain between China and South Korea is very close, and the amount of raw materials used to produce masks in South Korea also needs to be imported from China, but there is a shortage of raw materials in the country." Jiang Han said.
The phenomenon of price gouging in the domestic mask market quickly spread to foreign countries.
Li Ke bluntly, recently docking with South Korean suppliers, because the price out of the bidder is not high, the order was destroyed is a common phenomenon, his goods can only be a little bit from various suppliers to come in.
"But so far, I paid a deposit of eighty or ninety percent did not get the goods." Li Ke said.
In fact, overseas masks also have the problem of inconsistent quality.
According to Yan Zhen, foreign sources of masks, mixed with part of the expired products are treated as good goods into the market, and the product introduction of other languages, so that many people in the untruth under the deception.
In addition, there are logistics clearance and transportation problems with overseas sources, and policies in other countries also hinder the smooth procurement of masks back home. Some countries have begun to ban the export of protective materials to foreign countries.
On January 31st, the official website of the Directorate General of Foreign Trade of India issued a notice prohibiting the export of masks, suits, and other personal protective equipment during the spread of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic.
"Crazy" will calm
Crazy "mask" market, is expected to stabilize.
Market Supervision Bureaus around the world to strengthen the fake and shoddy masks and the market price on the investigation and punishment of behavior.
On Feb. 4, Beijing recently cracked the first inter-provincial case of selling counterfeit masks, arrested 4 suspects, and seized more than 21,000 counterfeit 3M brand masks.
On February 3, Gan Lin, deputy director of the State Administration for Market Supervision and Regulation (SAMSAR), said in a conference that the behavior of raising prices and "making money out of the epidemic" should be cracked down and resolutely combated, and the overall price order is basically stable at present. As of February 1, the whole system **** deployed 390,000 times of price law enforcement officers, opened 1413 cases of price violations.
Domestic mask production capacity, in the continued promotion.
On February 2, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a press conference, Cao Xuejun, deputy director of the Department of Consumer Goods Industry, said that the current rate of resumption of mask enterprises is 60%, according to the total production capacity, the day's output of more than 10 million.
Part of the original did not produce masks of enterprises, also announced that the successive addition of capacity.
February 6, according to media reports, commissioned by the State Council State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), Sinopec wants to build a mask production line to take advantage of the production of raw materials. At present, Sinopec has contacted the relevant lack of fusion spray cloth mask manufacturers and mask machine manufacturers, mask machine spot is looking for.
In addition, governments around the world are constantly pushing to increase the production capacity of masks, some large enterprises such as Foxconn, SAIC-GM-Wuling, etc. also joined the ranks of the production of masks, the capacity to rapidly increase up.