[Explanation] Affected by heavy rainfall in the basin, on July 7, Anhui She County suffered from a flood disaster that happened once in 50 years, and 207 enterprises in Shexian Economic Development Zone were flooded with machinery and equipment and inventories, with a direct economic loss of 2.16 billion yuan. . On July 13, in the production workshop of Huangshan Tea Group, there was a mess. Enterprise employees and local volunteers were busy dredging, disinfecting, and transporting damaged goods, and the flooded tea was concentrated and destroyed after disinfection.
[Same period] Zheng Shaodong, person in charge of the affected tea company
Fifty or sixty percent was soaked in water, and then we organized the dispatch of the car as soon as possible, and the usable (tea leaves) were quickly taken to dry, and those that were unusable were removed. As of today, the entire damage is about 3,000 tons of tea, with a value of about 80 million or nearly 90 million.
[Commentary] According to reports, in recent years, Zheng Shaodong has established a tea raw material production base in Tangli Village, She County through the "company + base + farmer" model, and has established long-term cooperation with local tea farmers through order agriculture to help them achieve income growth and prosperity. . In early 2020, affected by the epidemic, in order to help tea farmers ship, Zheng Shaodong harvested more tea leaves than in previous years, resulting in greater losses after the disaster. Now, although the damage is severe, he is most concerned about the payment of the remaining balance of tea farmers.
[Same period] Zheng Shaodong, person in charge of the affected tea company
Because the interests of tea farmers cannot be damaged, there are a lot of poor households in the first (cooperative), and many of them are farmers who have ordered agriculture (cooperated) with us for nearly 10 years, and they are also harder. It has been 10 years of cooperation and belongs to a kind of consortium, so we will do our best to pay the tea farmers' money.
[Commentary] After the video of Zheng Shaodong's damaged tea was uploaded on the Internet, it also aroused the attention of many netizens, and expressed his willingness to help Zheng Shaodong and his company overcome the difficulties. The local government and caring volunteers of She County have also taken active actions to help enterprises do post-disaster environmental sanitation, disinfection and epidemic prevention work, and enhance their confidence and determination to overcome floods.
[Same period] Volunteer Yang Nannan
As our volunteers, we also want to do our utmost to help our company recover from disasters, so this morning we urgently organized a group of volunteers to come over and clean up the sludge in our company’s plant and workshop, (and ) Remediation of garbage, hope that through our own strength, help enterprises recover from disasters.
[Commentary] Huangshan Xingwei Reflective Materials Co., Ltd., which is not far from Zheng Shaodong, also suffered heavy losses in this flood. Both automated production lines and raw materials were soaked in water. The estimated loss is nearly 30 million yuan. After the disaster, the local taxation department immediately went to the disaster-affected enterprises to carry out "tax assistance", formulated tax preferential policies in a targeted manner, implemented the "one enterprise and one policy", and sent "reassurance" for the enterprises' self-rescue and resumption of production.
[Same period] Li Qinghong, Party Secretary and Director of Shexian Taxation Bureau, State Administration of Taxation
Our taxation department has comprehensively guaranteed the disaster situation of the enterprise for the first time. To help enterprises produce self-rescue and make good use of taxation policies, we timely issued a letter to the taxpayers affected by the disaster, opened a green channel, and handled special tasks to reduce or waive the relevant taxes and fees in accordance with the law to boost the confidence of enterprises in post-disaster reconstruction.
Liu Honghe, Zheng Jianfeng, Fang Kai, Anhui Huangshan Report
Responsible editor: [Luo Pan]