Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 24th, Summary: Summary: Overseas Chinese-funded enterprises actively fight against epidemic disease and guarantee production
Xinhua News Agency reporter
The epidemic situation of new crown pneumonia has been spreading globally recently. In the face of an increasingly severe epidemic situation, many overseas Chinese-funded enterprises actively fight against epidemic protection and production, and continue to provide positive energy for local economic construction and combating the epidemic.
The BYD factory in Lancaster, California, USA, has expanded from a few people in 2013 to about 800 employees, most of whom are local American employees. As a leader in the North American electric bus market, BYD has adopted a series of active prevention and control measures to respond to the epidemic and protect the health and normal production activities of employees in China and the United States.
The person in charge of BYD North America said that BYD puts the health and safety of employees and their families and BYD's suppliers and partners in the United States first. The company comprehensively strengthens sanitation and disinfection measures, reduces all unnecessary employees' outing, strictly restricts foreigners, and implements quarantine prevention for recent returnees. In addition, BYD also uses telecommuting and other technical means to meet the work needs of companies and partners.
According to reports, BYD's mask production capacity in China's Shenzhen plant currently reaches 5 million pieces per day, and will reach 10 million pieces per day in the future. BYD distributed self-produced masks to employees in North America, and contributed to the prevention and control of the North American epidemic while further maintaining employee health and strengthening safety protection.
China Telecom (Europe) Limited, headquartered in London, UK, has 24 branches and branches in Europe. According to reports, due to the company's appropriate epidemic prevention measures, none of the employees had a confirmed case.
The company's general manager Cao Li said that in response to the epidemic, the company distributed masks, hand sanitizers, alcohol and other epidemic prevention materials to employees, strengthened daily epidemic detection, and started a home office mode to reduce employee travel and reduce the risk of infection.
Cao Li said that at present, the company's business in Europe has not been greatly affected. The epidemic promotes the active transformation of the industry, and the company is also taking advantage of its cloud and online business to strive to better respond to the epidemic.
The Steinari Power Plant is the largest energy infrastructure project in Bosnia and Herzegovina in recent years. It was built by China Dongfang Electric Company and is known by locals as "the best power station in Europe". Due to the outbreak, Zhu Weilin, a boiler engineer at Dongfang Electric Company who returned to China to work in the power plant after the Spring Festival, took the initiative to isolate for two weeks.
"After knowing that we were in the quarantine, many local residents sent us necessities such as vegetables and fruits." Zhu Weilin said that the Chinese staff immediately went to work after the quarantine and successfully completed the power plant maintenance tasks, which made the owner very satisfied.
"I hope Dongfang Electric can stay in Bosnia and Herzegovina and stay in Steinari." Steinari Mayor Dushan Panich told reporters.
The first bid section of the Pan-European 5C Corridor Expressway in Chapulina, south of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was constructed by the China Construction Third Bureau, headquartered in Wuhan.
Project leader Cai Lei introduced that the company quickly formulated an emergency plan, set up an epidemic prevention and control working group, and adopted a series of measures to strictly prevent and control, including daily routine disinfection of public areas such as camp offices, cafeterias, and bathrooms, and The implementation of semi-closed management, comprehensive monitoring of returnees from China, strict isolation for 14 days, etc.
In order to overcome the shortage of manpower caused by the epidemic, the project team worked overtime and built a new camp including accommodation, office and entertainment facilities in just over a month. The urgency and sense of responsibility of Chinese companies for completing the project on time has touched a lot of locals, who also took the initiative to work overtime to ensure the project's demand for water and other hardware.
"The hard-working spirit of Chinese employees has made the local people see the spirit of the Chinese people and won the trust of the local people. This is an important factor for the project to move forward in the epidemic," said Ji Ping, Chinese ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Note holder: Xu Jiatong; participating reporters: Gao Shan, Yu Jiaxin, Zhang Xiuzhi)