With 12 parks, 1,500 enterprises and nearly 100,000 employees, Wu Jianming, president of Wanyang Group Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as “Wanyang Group”), headquartered in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, began to plan how to minimize the losses caused by the epidemic during the Spring Festival and realize the safe return to work of enterprises in its industrial parks as soon as possible.

Wu Jianming told the “Finance” reporter that according to the practice, this year’s manufacturing enterprises generally in the lunar month 15 (January 9) shut down the holiday, the fifteenth month of the first month (February 8) to resume work, before the holiday will reserve a month of production materials. “Seeing the approaching node, if the delayed shutdown will not only affect the manufacturing industry itself, but also affect the basic material security, some foreign trade enterprises’ customers will move orders to other countries.”

810-801237-021 So, staying at home, he started the discussion of the park resumption plan through the wechat conference group, and discussed and detailed the plan with the management team every day for ten consecutive days.

Among them, “centralized transportation, centralized prevention and control” is considered by Wu Jianming and his team to be the most effective plan for workers to return to the city. This can reduce the risk of employing enterprises and the pressure of government prevention and control, Wu Jianming admitted that the implementation of the plan still needs the support of local governments.

In recent years, industrial clusters represented by the park have developed rapidly. Under this concept, some related upstream and downstream industries of the industrial chain or different types of enterprises in the same industry have formed spatial clusters. The commonality of the 1,500 companies in Wanyang Group is that they are all manufacturing companies, and they are mainly small and medium-sized enterprises.

On January 27, Wanyang Group received documents one after another, and the resumption of work in the park was delayed from February 3 to February 9 and February 17. Among them, the Guangdong park can resume work after February 9, and the Zhejiang park can resume work on 810-801237-021 February 17. Taking the latter as an example, 60% of the enterprises in the Wanyang Group park will be able to operate normally by mid-March.

How damaging are delays to businesses? Recently, the “Enterprise Start-up Capacity Survey · Report” led by the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences shows that 7.1% of enterprises can afford more than 1 month delay, and only 1.7% of enterprises can afford more than 2 months delay.

According to the World Smart Manufacturing Center Development Trend Report (2019), including all industrial parks with the name “smart manufacturing”, China has a total of 537, distributed in 27 provinces and cities across the country. According to Tianyan data, there are currently more than 9.58 million manufacturing enterprises in China, and more than half of the registered capital of manufacturing enterprises is less than 1 million yuan, and the ability to resist risks is weak. It is clear that more manufacturing companies are planning to return to work.

Chen Huan, director of the Zhejiang Institute of Microbiology, said the manufacturing sector is expected to operate normally in March and April as the epidemic is likely to end in May as the weather warms.

The expectation of a safe and sound resumption of work must 810-801237-021 be combined with the progress of epidemic prevention and control.

From 0:00 to 24:00 on February 7, there were 3,399 new confirmed cases, 86 new deaths and 4,214 new suspected cases. According to statistics from the National Health Commission, 558 new confirmed cases were reported in areas outside Hubei province from 0:00 to 24:00 on February 7, with the growth rate declining for the fourth consecutive day.

An epidemic expert analysis, in addition to Hubei province, the number of confirmed cases across the country began to decline, if this momentum can be maintained, it means that the imported epidemic in provinces outside Hubei Province has been initially controlled. It is also under this premise that the 810-801237-021 provinces have also begun to make notices for the orderly resumption of business. However, there will still be restrictions on provinces or cities where the epidemic is still more severe.

The current epidemic prevention and control work has also entered a new stage, which is to control local cases. Therefore, the process of resuming work must be phased and step-by-step. In the process, scientific prevention and control and precise measures will be taken in accordance with the development of the epidemic situation.

Chen Huan suggested that for labor-intensive industries, it is more reasonable to start work gradually from the region, and you can choose cities that are less affected by the epidemic to give priority to production, or you can give priority to personnel in the region to work.

At present, the number of confirmed cases has declined day after day, so that manufacturing companies see hope.