Author: Miao Qi
"We set off early in the morning and started picking up and delivering."
On the morning of the 21st, Liu Junming, general manager of Zhejiang Yiwu Yilingnuo Sanitary Ware Co., Ltd., started his busy work and arranged the next shipping plan as soon as possible.
He told Yicai that he had to work overtime in the past few days, and "hope to catch up with the previous progress in about half a month."
In the middle of the night on the 20th, Yiwu, "the capital of small commodities in the world", issued a notice saying that from 0:00 on the 21st, the state of silent management will be lifted (except for some epidemic spots).
This means that the obstruction of goods transportation has been alleviated, the production of enterprises has resumed, and offline purchases by foreign businessmen have been restarted.
At the press conference on the epidemic prevention and control work in Yiwu City held on the 21st, Luo Xiaojun, deputy mayor of Yiwu City, proposed that as of August 20, 805 enterprises in the city have resumed work and production, and the resumption rate has exceeded 98%.
Industrial electricity consumption increased month-on-month for six consecutive days, returning to pre-epidemic levels.
Since the International Trade City resumed normal operation on August 18, the door opening rate and the flow of people are gradually recovering.
The "Yi-Xin-Europe" China-Europe train has been running steadily. Since the epidemic, the daily average of 4.2 trains and 356 TEUs has been shipped, an increase of 7% and 11% respectively compared with the daily average in July.
E-commerce logistics has resumed operation, and the distribution centers of major express brands have resumed trial operation.
Resumption of work and production "13" first
For a large number of small and micro enterprises in Yiwu, business development and the development of some products can continue at home during the silent period, but production and logistics are almost completely stagnant.
Chen Xianchun, the sales manager of Yiwu Jinzun Stationery Products Company, told Yicai that they are working overtime as production and logistics resume gradually, but it will take at least 10 days to recover the progress.
"It's mainly efficiency and time." Liu Junming said that the original 8-hour work will be extended to 10 hours, and at the same time, work efficiency must be improved in order to get back to the schedule as soon as possible.
Li Ting (pseudonym), the head of a small and medium-sized enterprise in Yiwu International Trade City, told Yicai that they resumed work early on the 21st.
However, they have lost a very important period of time when the peak season is one month before and after the start of the school year. "It is impossible to completely catch up with the progress. You can only grab the last tail, and the loss is heavy."
In order to boost the confidence of market players, before the official release of the news of lifting the silence, "Several Policies and Measures for Yiwu's Anti-epidemic and Stabilizing Economy", that is, the "Thirteen Articles" to help resumption of work and production, was first introduced on the 19th.
At the above-mentioned press conference on the 21st, Jin Yangjun, deputy director of the Yiwu Development and Reform Bureau, said that this is a problem-oriented "thirteen policy" issued on the basis of the previous 47 policies to stabilize the economy, mainly covering stable production, stability Foreign trade, stabilizing logistics, ensuring smooth flow, stabilizing jobs, and ensuring employment are three aspects.
In the next step, Yiwu will release the implementation rules as soon as possible, and promote the implementation of various policies with the greatest strength and fastest speed through measures such as precise push, quick enjoyment and direct payment, and non-inductive payment.
At the same time, the policies will be supplemented and iterated in a timely manner according to the problems and demands of the enterprises.
The "Thirteen Articles" include: assisting large-scale enterprises to improve quality and efficiency, assisting trade enterprises to grow steadily, assisting the healthy development of real estate, assisting the steady development of logistics enterprises, increasing support for above-scale freight enterprises, increasing subsidies for cruise taxi enterprises, and continuing the implementation Difficulty subsidies for operating vehicles, increasing financial support for enterprises, reducing comprehensive financing costs for enterprises, increasing loan support for individual industrial and commercial households, promoting entry and exit facilitation of business personnel, helping enterprises to stabilize jobs and retain jobs, and helping enterprises to carry out employee skills training. In one respect, real money support was given.
Liu Junming said that increasing financial support for enterprises, reducing comprehensive financing costs for enterprises, and increasing loan support for individual industrial and commercial households are very useful for small and micro enterprises. "We have enjoyed such policies in 2020." .
Among them, in terms of increasing financial support for enterprises, Yiwu's "Thirteen Articles" clarified that if enterprises purchase "short-term export credit insurance" by themselves, they will be subsidized by 70% of the actual premium paid.
The foreign trade comprehensive service enterprises that meet the conditions and have foreign exchange settlement and sales needs are included in the scope of application of the government financing guarantee to support the exchange rate risk hedging and credit enhancement policy for small and micro enterprises.
In terms of reducing the comprehensive financing cost of enterprises, the "Thirteen Articles" propose that during the period from July 1 to December 31, 2022, the government financing guarantee company will provide new services to small and micro enterprises (including individual industrial and commercial households) and "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" subjects. The applied bank loan will be charged a comprehensive financing guarantee fee at an annualized rate of not more than 0.6%, and strive to achieve full coverage of eligible loans below 10 million yuan without repayment.
In terms of increasing the loan support for individual industrial and commercial households, Yiwu will provide local and foreign currency loans to individual industrial and commercial households with an interest rate not higher than the latest one-year LPR + 100 basis points, according to the amount not exceeding the annual increase in individual industrial and commercial household loans. The relevant bank is not higher than 0.5% of the reward.
Offline purchasing for foreign businessmen to restart
Yiwu, the "world supermarket", brings together more than 2.1 million kinds of commodities, which are sold to more than 230 countries and regions around the world. Before the epidemic, more than 560,000 foreign businessmen visited Yiwu every year.
From 0:00 on the 18th, Yiwu International Trade City has resumed normal operations and reopened its doors to welcome guests.
The 107 Indian foreign businessmen who arrived at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Airport on a chartered flight on August 9 also completed health management measures such as the end of centralized isolation on the afternoon of the 20th and arrived in Yiwu.
As the lead company for organizing charter flights, Du Yuegang, head of Zhejiang Tony Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., told Yicai that most foreign businessmen in India have returned to their homes in Yiwu and will go to Yiwu International Trade City to start offline purchases after a short period of home monitoring.
In Du Yuegang's view, since there has been no navigation for more than two years, the effect of Indian merchants coming to Yiwu to see samples and communicate face-to-face is still different.
On the one hand, it can help foreign businessmen to expand their business with more new products, on the other hand, it can also boost the confidence of business people from both countries in the opening of Yiwu.
As one of the Indian businessmen in the charter group, Hassan said that considering the needs of Indian customers, they generally have to see the real thing and ask for improvement before placing an order. If they can't go back to Yiwu, the new product orders will be blocked, and they can only repurchase. For the products I bought before, "when you arrive in Yiwu, you can go to the market and help them choose new products according to their preferences and requirements."
Ten days before the charter flight of Indian businessmen landed, 163 Pakistani businessmen also arrived in Zhejiang by business charter flight.
In order to help trade enterprises grab orders, the "Thirteen Articles" propose that the whitelisted enterprises issued by the Commerce Bureau should carry out multi-person centralized entry and exit passport business.
We will make every effort to implement the policy of inviting foreign business personnel to China, and maximize the convenience for foreign business personnel to purchase in Italy.
Actively build a communication platform between "going out" enterprises and foreign embassies and consulates in China.
Organize the implementation of business charter flights, and release information on visa policies, entry control measures and international flight resumption in a timely manner.
The "8.2" epidemic was the first local clustered epidemic in Zhejiang caused by the BA.5.2 variant of Omicron.
Since the 11th, the whole city of Yiwu has implemented 3-day silent management; since the 14th, the silent management of 2 townships and sub-districts that have had no new social cases for 7 consecutive days has been lifted, and the remaining 12 towns and sub-districts will continue to implement silent management. ) was adjusted to a low-risk area (prevention area) management after the unit had no new social cases for 7 consecutive days; the silent management of some areas was lifted from the 18th, and Yiwu International Trade City resumed normal operations.
According to statistics from the National Infectious Disease Epidemic Information Reporting System, from 21:00 on August 20 to 9:00 on August 21, there were no new positive infections of the new coronavirus in Yiwu City.
As of 9:00 on August 21, Yiwu City has reported a total of 710 local positive infections of the new coronavirus, including 91 confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia and 619 asymptomatic infections of new coronary pneumonia.
According to the announcement of the Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, after the silent management is lifted, Yiwu will restore farmers' markets, supermarkets, convenience stores and other basic livelihood service places in an orderly manner, resume bus line operations in batches, and fully resume cruise taxis and online taxi-hailing operations. , to resume normal travel at airports, railways, passenger stations, and expressways.
At the same time, the opening of some key venues such as theaters, KTVs, Internet cafes, gyms, chess and card rooms, and off-campus education and training institutions will be suspended; Catering establishments will continue to suspend dine-in and only provide in-store pick-up and take-out food delivery services; continue to manage key institutions, elderly service institutions and child welfare institutions will lift closed management in an orderly manner, implement appointment visits, control the number of visitors, and pharmacies will continue to Stop selling "four types of drugs", etc.
On the afternoon of the 20th, Zhu Chonglie, Secretary of the Jinhua Municipal Party Committee, went to Yiwu and other places to inspect and guide the finalization of the "8.2" epidemic prevention and control work. .
These include implementing mechanisms and measures such as the national unified passport, the dynamic management of the "whitelist" for a stable chain and a smooth chain, "one enterprise, one policy" to help enterprises resume production in an orderly manner, and research and launch of integrated tax, financial, talent and other multi-dimensional support The policy toolkit can effectively stimulate the vitality of market players.