Securities Times reporter Jiang Dan and He Jueyuan
Trainee reporter Guo Bohao
With the positive progress in epidemic prevention and control, some areas in Beijing have begun to propose "to guard the gradually recovered fireworks in strict prevention and control."
According to the on-the-spot investigation of Beijing's road network traffic, enterprise arrivals, and business district popularity by a reporter from Securities Times, Beijing is gradually accelerating the pace of resumption of work and production, especially the transportation network and enterprise arrivals have made significant improvements. , and the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is much anticipated by many businesses.
Road network traffic bottoms out
Beijing begins to be "a bit blocked"
As the current round of the epidemic in Beijing has been gradually brought under control, since May 29, many districts have resumed work and production one after another, and the morning peak that has been "silent" for more than 20 days gradually resumed its usual busyness.
The reporter tracked the urban road network traffic index released by the Beijing Institute of Transportation Development. The data shows that the traffic congestion in the morning peak before and after the current round of the epidemic presents a "U"-shaped trend with two highs in the middle and lows in the middle.
According to the reporter's observation, before the current round of the epidemic, Beijing's morning rush hour traffic index hovered between 6 and 8; with the start of working from home in many districts on May 5, business districts (except supermarkets and restaurants) were temporarily closed. The traffic congestion index dropped rapidly and remained between 2 and 3.
After the signal of resumption of work and production was issued on May 29, the congestion level in Beijing's morning peak showed a clear upward trend. As of the morning peak on May 31, the traffic index of the urban road network had recovered to 3.75, which was close to the light congestion level.
On May 31, the reporter drove to key business districts such as Economic Development Zone, International Trade, and Financial Street, and could clearly feel the increase in traffic flow on the road.
During the peak of the epidemic, Sihui Bridge and Chang'an Avenue, which rarely experienced traffic jams, lined up again.
According to the trend of the data, as the epidemic situation is further controlled, the number of areas to resume work and production will gradually increase, and the "lively" cities in the past may return.
It is worth noting that while Beijing is promoting the resumption of work and production, it has also recently launched the upgrade of its public transport ticketing system.
As of May 31, a total of 115 subway stations and 10 bus lines in the city have carried out ticket upgrade passenger experience tests.
After the test, the public transport ticketing system will enable automatic verification of health codes by swiping cards or swiping codes across the entire network.
In the future, passengers will be able to experience the quick entry service of swiping a card or swiping a code to automatically verify the health code information.
The resumption of work and production is progressing in an orderly manner
Li Yang (pseudonym), who works in the human resources department of a listed company, told reporters that almost all employees of the company will be on duty from this week.
The property also issued a notice to remind that everyone in Chaoyang District can go to work normally with the 48-hour nucleic acid test results, except for the closed control area and the control area.
Li Yang's family lives near the West Second Ring Road, but his workplace is located on the East Third Ring Road in Beijing.
She told reporters that although the number of vehicles on the road has increased, it will not increase the travel time to and from get off work.
Compared with the normal working period before the current round of the epidemic, the daily commute time is still relatively small.
Li Yang said that the current situation of Beijing's epidemic prevention and control is gradually improving, and he hopes to continue to maintain this situation.
Li Yang's experience also applies to most company employees in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Chaoyang District, Beijing has clearly requested that, except for the closed and controlled areas, work from home should be adjusted to normal work.
However, the reporter also noticed that some people are still working from home.
Fan Yu, who works in a well-known technology company, told reporters that his company is in a science and technology park in Chaoyang District. At present, because the park still requires company employees to work from home, they have not returned to work.
At present, Beijing is promoting the implementation of social prevention and control measures at different levels.
The Beijing Municipal Government clearly requires that, on the premise of strictly implementing epidemic prevention measures, to maintain the normal production and operation activities of enterprises, and to ensure the safety and stability of the industrial chain and supply chain.
Considering that the epidemic has made it difficult for some enterprises to resume work and production in a short period of time, since the outbreak of the current round of the epidemic, the Beijing Municipal Government and relevant departments have successively issued relevant policies to help enterprises in difficulty to resume development.
Several measures have been formulated in terms of reducing the burden on small, medium and micro enterprises, increasing financial support, strengthening assistance to prominent industries affected by the epidemic, and implementing guarantees. Each district has also successively issued relevant implementation rules and implementation guidelines.
According to the reporter's preliminary statistics, since April 22, the Beijing Municipal Government and district governments have issued 21 policy documents.
For example, Beijing has introduced a number of measures to reduce the rent burden of enterprises called for by market players.
In the Beijing Municipal Government's "Several Measures on Continuing to Increase Support for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises and Accelerating the Recovery and Development of Difficult Enterprises", it is clearly proposed that the small and micro enterprises and individual businesses in the Beijing-registered or tax-paying service industry that rent state-owned houses in Beijing will be exempted. Household rent reduction for 3 months.
The Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone's "Several Measures on Increasing Enterprise Assistance to Support the High-Quality Development of Enterprises" also proposes to provide rent subsidies to key technology-based small and micro enterprises in the leased area.
The resumption of business and market will be catalyzed by the festival
Compared with the fact that companies in some areas of Beijing are speeding up the resumption of work and production, the reporter found that the current progress of resumption of business and market in Beijing is relatively slow after actual visits to several key business districts in Beijing.
A number of shopping mall merchants interviewed by reporters said that they have not yet clearly felt the significant recovery of shopping mall traffic.
On the morning of May 31, the reporter went to Wangfujing in Beijing and Taikoo Li in Sanlitun respectively, and found that the two business districts not only have few people coming and going, but also a large number of stores that have not yet opened.
The staff at the parking lot of Wangfujing apm shopping center told reporters that "just a few cars came" in the parking lot in the morning.
The reporter also saw the bustling citizens who came to shop in Beijing's Qinghe Vientiane Exchange, which had resumed business.
A staff member of a certain brand in the mall told reporters that because of the suspension of business some time ago, the performance of the store was inevitably affected.
But for the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the mall has no plans for discounts.
"I hope the epidemic can be further controlled and the passenger flow can gradually return to normal."
It is understood that Badaling Outlets in Changping District resumed business on May 29.
On May 31, the reporter saw in the shopping mall that the free parking spaces in the shopping mall were relatively abundant, and most businesses put discount cards outside the store to attract customers.
From the perspective of discount strength, the lowest discount of a few brands can be as low as 20%, and store brands with a 50% discount are more common.
According to the staff of the mall, the current discount in the mall is a regular discount. During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the mall is expected to launch a discount.
During the visit, many businesses told reporters that they could not see a significant pickup in passenger traffic.
Some merchants believe that the main reason for the current lack of shopping malls is that the current policy still does not encourage cross-regional movement and does not allow dine-in in restaurants.
However, there are also merchants who expect that the desertion in the business district has "finished", and the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival will usher in a recovery in store performance.