[? Yio guide?] ? Want a mask? The car brand!
Written by He Qi
Edited by Hao Qiuhui/Zhang Yan
A mask is hard to find.
"The first 30,000 masks I donated were carried back by myself." On January 28, Tan Jie, who was on business in Thailand, asked a friend to buy 30,000 masks locally and then booked a flight back home at 4 a.m. the next morning.
Far from India, Lin Han joined a team of local volunteers to raise funds for masks, protective clothing and other supplies. 308 boxes of supplies were flown from Mumbai to Beijing on Air China at 3:00 a.m. Indian time on Feb. 2. The company's newest product is a new product, which will be available for sale on the market in the near future," he said.
Tan Jie and Lin Han are just some of the trillions of overseas donors. The General Administration of Customs released data on February 12 that from January 24 (New Year's Eve) to February 11, the National Customs *** check and release of imported epidemic prevention and control materials 870 million pieces, of which the donated materials *** counted 147 million pieces, including 108 million masks, 2.39 million pieces of protective clothing, 650,000 pairs of goggles, valued at more than 500 million yuan.
According to the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Conference, as of Feb. 11, the national capacity utilization rate of masks has reached 94 percent, especially the medical N95 masks, which are urgently needed for first-line prevention and control, and the capacity utilization rate has reached 128 percent, but there is still a huge gap in the domestic supply of masks.
Subsequently, many automobile companies began to cross the border for mask production.
In SAIC-GM-Wuling's 10W-class dust-free workshop, workers are working overtime to produce a batch of special war epidemic substances - "Wuling brand masks."
At the end of February, SAIC-GM-Wuling's daily output will reach to 3.7 million,*** there are 12 joint production lines and 11 self-built lines.
From the idea to enter the specific implementation stage, SAIC-GM-Wuling only used less than 5 days. February 14, has produced the first 1 million offline "Wuling brand masks" in the scene of the official delivery, at the same time, SAIC-GM-Wuling announced that the masks are only gift not for sale. On the box is written: "What the people need, Wuling what to build".
Not only SAIC-GM-Wuling, BYD, GAC also began to put into the production of masks. And in the future, the masks jointly produced by these automobile companies may reach one-half of the country's production capacity.
When the mask is no longer difficult to buy, "inflection point" has also arrived.
Mask "crisis"
"Wearing a mask to line up, mask did not buy, but also lost a mask." The online segment is a true reflection of many people.
"In order to buy a mask, we have to go to the community committee to register for an appointment and get a voucher before we can go to a designated pharmacy to buy one. Sometimes when we go late, the masks are gone." Zhang Yang, who lives in Shanghai, sighed. He tries to minimize going out and purchases household items for the whole family with a frequency of at least two days. Now he looks forward to going to work because there are masks to collect.
On Feb. 11, Cong Liang, a member of the party group and secretary-general of the National Development and Reform Commission, said enterprises resuming work should be equipped with supplies such as disinfectant and temperature guns, and workers should be issued masks and other protective gear. With the successive resumption of work, the epidemic prevention and control further upgraded, "a mask is hard to find" has become a headache for enterprises.
The fourth national economic census showed that the number of employed people in China in recent years has stabilized at about 770 million. According to the extreme conditions to calculate, masks according to the consumption of one per person per day, the daily demand of at least 770 million or so. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology statistics show that China's maximum production capacity of masks for more than 20 million per day, N95 medical protective masks daily production capacity is only about 600,000 only.
On February 10, the National Development and Reform Commission said that the latest data from 22 provinces across the country showed that the resumption rate of mask enterprises has exceeded 76%. This is still a drop in the bucket for the huge market demand.
Pan Helin, executive director of the Digital Economy Research Institute at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, believes that because the outbreak of the epidemic was too sudden, the mask industry upstream, midstream and downstream producers are in a state of half-rest, coupled with China's large population base, etc., the masks in the short term will be in short supply. "Even if companies take out their entire inventory and work overtime to put it into production, they may not be able to meet market demand."
"Automobile brand" masks in support
February 10 morning, after two days and nights of struggle, Guangzhou Automobile Parts Technology Center engineers breathed a sigh of relief, the first protective mask production equipment finally debugging success.
The dust-free workshop of SAIC-GM-Wuling was also bustling with activity, and on February 13th, the first batch of masks produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling was shipped out in bulk. It took only three days from the time the idea was put forward to the first batch of masks coming off the line.
In Shenzhen's Baolong factory, BYD's electronics business group, Department IX, has been temporarily mobilized to produce masks, which can be shipped on Feb. 17 at the earliest.
In the face of the severe challenge of the situation of shortage of anti-epidemic materials, many enterprises have switched to production or part-time production of masks, protective clothing, disinfectant solution has become a shortage of materials. According to data from Eyeball, more than 3,000 companies in China have added "masks, protective clothing, disinfectant, thermometers, medical equipment" to their business scope.
A-share-listed companies, of which there are about 21, SAIC-GM-Wuling, BYD and Guangzhou Automobile Group, three car companies have stepped forward to transform their production lines, and turned to "anti-epidemic".
Lian Weiliang, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, gave enterprises a piece of mind, "Many enterprises are concerned about the future of masks will not be overcapacity, and clearly told them that after the epidemic surplus production, the government will be stored. As long as it meets the standard, the enterprise can open full power to organize production!"
On February 6, SAIC-GM-Wuling announced that it had joined forces with its acoustic cotton supplier Guangxi DeFuTechnology Co. According to the project construction plan, Guangxi DeFuTe's original production workshop will be converted into a 2,000 square meters of dust-free workshop, *** set up 12 mask production lines, including N95, general medical protection mask line, put into use at the end of February.
"In terms of raw materials, production technology preparation, we have a great advantage for the production of masks, the production line can be quickly start production after professional transformation." SAIC-GM-Wuling told Euromonitor.
Two days later, BYD announced the production of masks and disinfectant, is expected around February 17 mass production shipments. On the same day, BAIC proposed a study to create a program to build equipment and production lines used to process and produce masks, and sent a number of party employees to Dongguan mask production equipment manufacturer Fast Yuda to participate in a 15-day study.
Li Yunfei, deputy general manager of BYD Auto Sales Co., Ltd, said in an interview with People's Daily Online that among the four major processes of automobile production: stamping, welding, painting and assembly, the painting workshop has a high standard of dust-free. And in the medical mask production process, the production environment has more special requirements, the need for constant temperature and humidity, can not let the dust and other small debris pollution mask. Therefore, compared with other enterprises, automotive companies in the cross-border production of masks have a great advantage.
"This is a good thing," said Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the National Passenger Association, to YEEO Automobile, automotive companies are large and risk-resistant, whether it is personnel, capital, technical reserves, special production sites and so on, have great advantages. For example, the production of masks of sterile workshop environment requirements are very high. And the automobile industry has a strong ability to adjust, the whole car companies are well equipped with production conditions.
Today, the neat and tidy automatic production line, built not only cars, but also the most needed masks, disinfectant and other medical supplies.
"Wuling brand", "BYD brand", "Guangzhou Automobile brand" protective masks ...... will soon be come out.
Accounting for one-half of the national capacity
The three car companies put into production.
According to the production capacity planning of the three automakers, SAIC-GM-Wuling plans to have a daily production capacity of 3.7 million masks; BYD plans to have a daily production capacity of 5 million masks and 50,000 bottles of disinfectant; through cooperation with suppliers, GAC plans to make 30 to 50 sets of its own equipment, and as of February 14, its mask production line is in the final debugging and trial production stage
The production of 1 million masks per day is expected to be realized by the end of this month.
BYD's internal staff told Euromobile that the company is actively preparing for the approval of the certification, and the government has also opened a "green channel" for the shortage of materials. BYD has a professional equipment research and development and technical team, and has a long-term cooperation and stability of the upstream raw material resources,? From the raw materials, production technology preparation has a great advantage, the product will also be in strict accordance with the current national standards to produce.
Car companies can successfully "cross-border" production of masks, thanks to the local government's "green channel". It is reported that the mask is a medical device category, inspection and testing accreditation certificate issued by the State Administration of Market Supervision, according to the accreditation process, from the application, acceptance to approval of the certificate, it takes nearly three months.
"With the help of the government, the 43 days required for the normal process has been shortened to less than 20 days, and it is expected that all the required procedures can be handled by March." SAIC Wuling told Euromobile that in terms of staffing, in addition to SAIC Wuling's support staff, it will supplement its staff through social recruitment.
Boston Consulting Managing Director and Global Partner Xu Yang told YEE Auto that the masks belong to the strategic materials, when the country does not have enough supply, the car company to produce, reflecting the spirit of a party in trouble eight parties to support, at the same time, in the supply of other industries at the same time, some of the masks can also meet the needs of the enterprise itself to resume work.
CAIC statistics show that as of February 12, the current 183 domestic vehicle production bases, 59 bases began to resume production, accounting for 32.2%.
At a time when work is resuming nationwide, the cross-border brand of car masks is undoubtedly one of the strongest responses.
Where have all the masks gone?
While the people need masks, car-branded masks aren't always available.
A BYD executive said in a circle of friends that the phone was "busted". Recently, there are a lot of online "single buy BYD mask" link in the dissemination, there is also information that the BYD masks for sale in quantities of 1 million, February 17th delivery.
BYD was forced to dispel the rumors at the first time, saying that the first batch of scarce materials will be directed to donate to specific groups of people, such as drivers of buses, cabs, and online cars, as well as volunteers, airports, and flight attendants. Subsequently, the situation will be taken into account before considering the external supply of flat-rate.
According to the speed of production, BYD's first batch of masks will be mass-produced and shipped on February 17, and put into front-line use is conservatively estimated to be by the end of the month.
"The masks produced by Wuling will be uniformly deployed." SAIC-GM-Wuling insiders said, masks belong to the strategic material reserves, part of the Liuzhou municipal government will be handed over to the unified deployment, used to support the front line of the epidemic, another part will be given to the front line of the epidemic prevention of the struggling, upstream and downstream industry chain and other partners.
On New Year's Eve, after the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a mandate to several major domestic auto makers to urgently produce negative-pressure ambulances, 12 companies, including Brilliance Group, BAIC Foton, SAIC Datsun, and Jiangling Ford, stepped up production of customized negative-pressure ambulances. SAIC Datsun shortened the production development and manufacturing period, which originally took one month, to 10 days to seize valuable time with the epidemic and support the front line.
According to the incomplete statistics of YEEO automobile, as of February 3, including vehicle manufacturers, automobile dealers, after-market and parts companies, including a total of nearly 70 companies in the automotive field to help fight the epidemic.
Increase domestic production, encourage multi-channel imports, government departments to solve the two-pronged approach to masks and other anti-epidemic materials shortage.
On February 9, Chen Da, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, said the government is also actively encouraging multi-channel imports to promote the relevant enterprises to increase purchasing efforts, donations of imported masks exempted from tariffs, coordination of foreign governments and international organizations to donate masks to do a good job after the entry of the transshipment work to support the relevant enterprises to use the freight chartered flights to imported masks to the domestic way.
Recently, the person in charge of the China Textile Business Association said that at the end of February, China will produce nearly 180 million masks of various types on a daily basis, plus imported protective materials, will largely ease the supply and demand situation.
Ends
"I hope this war epidemic will end soon so that I can return to work soon." ? Li Fang, who has been quarantined at home for 24 days in an infected area, hopes to return to Shanghai as soon as possible, an expectation that is also shared by everyone in the country.
Having enough masks and protective equipment is a prerequisite for returning to Shanghai and going to work.
The "motorists" are working hard, and so is the community.
The General Administration of Customs released data on Feb. 12 that from Jan. 24 to Feb. 11, the country's customs **** checked and discharged 870 million pieces of imported epidemic prevention and control materials, including 730 million masks, 7.41 million protective clothing, 1.54 million pairs of goggles, 1.53 million disinfectant items, 2.22 million medicines, 1.34 million pieces of medical equipment, valued at 2.84 billion yuan.
The masks are in short supply, but there will come a day when they are no longer scarce. When that happens, I hope everyone remembers the people who paid for them.
Edited by Hao Qiuhui/Zhang Yan
This article comes from the authors of the automobile home car, does not represent the views of the automobile home position.