(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Proposal for the fight against the epidemic: Zhang Shuibo pointed out that the key to the speed of resumption of construction industry lies in supply chain management
China News Agency, Beijing, April 13 Telegram: Record of the war against epidemic: Zhang Shuibo said that the key to the speed of resumption of construction industry is in supply chain management
China News Agency reporter Lu Mei
Affected by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, the output value of China's construction industry in the first quarter was greatly affected. With the continuous advancement of resumption of production and production, Zhang Shuibo, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, suggested in an interview with China News Service that construction companies should pay attention to supply chain management, increase technology and management reserves, and seize the opportunity in the crisis.
Zhang Shuibo is currently a professor of the Department of Management and Economics of Tianjin University and the dean of the School of International Engineering Management. He has been engaged in construction industry research for more than 30 years. He pointed out that the negative impact of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic on the construction industry is mainly in three aspects. First of all, although most of the construction sites have been resumed, the industrial chain has not yet fully recovered, and the construction industry ’s output value in the first quarter of this year has suffered a great loss. Second, as a labor-intensive industry, the construction industry's shutdown in the past three months has a significant impact on employment. Third, due to the continuity and strength of construction operations, the early stage of resumption of work will inevitably cause problems such as material waste and reduced work efficiency.
The epidemic situation is coming, the construction industry is facing "danger", but also must see "opportunity". Zhang Shuibo believes that from a management perspective, high-level decision-making can overcome the crisis and seize the opportunity. If the production method of the construction industry can accelerate the transformation and upgrading since then, thereby promoting a major change in China's strategic production method, it will have a profound impact on the national economic development.
Zhang Shuibo pointed out that the traditional production methods of the construction industry attach importance to project progress, quality and cost, and the concept of HSE (that is, health, safety and environmental protection) is insufficient. The uncertainty brought by the epidemic will make the concept of green construction more important in project management and more in line with the concept of high-quality, sustainable green development advocated by the state.
He also said that compared with manufacturing, the construction industry is an industry that lags behind in innovation. The epidemic made the construction industry more widely use information technology such as building information models and on-site remote management and control, and promoted the innovation of working methods. Enterprises should pay more attention to emergency management and improve the emergency management system for major projects.
During the investigation, Zhang Shuibo found that after the epidemic was suppressed, some enterprises could resume work quickly, while others could only "have a hurry." The key lies in the management capabilities of the external supply chain. He pointed out that the construction industry has a long and close industrial chain and involves multi-level suppliers such as subcontracting, labor services, materials, and equipment. If one or two links are disconnected, it may lead to overall stagnation.
"Future enterprise competition is not competition between individual enterprises, but the competition of supply chains formed by enterprises. The integrity of the supply chain will constitute the core competitiveness of the enterprise. The success of the project also lies in the common value-added of the entire supply chain enterprises. "Zhang Shuibo recently suggested in an online course for construction companies that companies should identify weak links in the supply chain exposed during the epidemic and fill in the shortcomings to transform to a higher level of management.
At the beginning of this year, the National Economic Statistics Report released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that the gross domestic product (GDP) for the whole year of 2019 was 99,086.5 billion yuan, and the total output value of the national construction industry was 2,846.4 billion yuan. Zhang Shuibo pointed out that the construction industry accounted for a large proportion of GDP, and the decrease in the output value of the construction industry will have a significant impact on the economic growth rate.
As for how to increase investment to promote economic recovery, he emphasized that "money must be spent on the blade." The construction industry chain is very intuitive for the promotion of manufacturing, employment and other fields. Infrastructure investment is still one of the important means of economic recovery. But pay attention to avoid duplication of investment, should increase investment in rural water conservancy infrastructure, prevention and control of soil and water pollution and other aspects. New infrastructure projects should avoid rushing to do a solid feasibility analysis, step by step, step by step, by region, by gradient, "Small steps, non-stop, take into account the economic and social benefits, do a good job in talent, technology and management Reserve to achieve steady development. "
Zhang Shuibo said frankly that these suggestions are “easy to say and difficult to do” and require joint efforts from the government to enterprises. "There is a saying that if you feel that life is very comfortable every day, you will get more and more sad every year; if you feel that it is difficult every day, then you will get better and better every year," he said, "I think it makes sense ."(Finish)