[Commentary] On June 15, Beijing held a press conference for epidemic prevention and control. At the meeting, Xu Ying, a member of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, said that in recent days, there have been multiple confirmed cases in Beijing, which has entered an extraordinary period. The community-based prevention and control work in Beijing quickly entered a wartime situation, with 7,120 community (village) and nearly 100,000 community (village) workers immediately involved in the anti-epidemic work, and the key personnel and key areas were investigated and controlled.

  [Same period] Xu Ying, member of the Beijing Municipal Organization Department

  11 communities around the Xinfadi agricultural products wholesale market and 10 communities around the Yuquandong market are all under closed management, and nucleic acid testing is being conducted on 90,000 residents. All communities (villages) in the city carried out a “knock-knock operation” in an all-round way, by posting announcements, door-to-door enquiries, telephone WeChat contact, and other methods to investigate nearly 200,000 people who had been to the Xinfadi agricultural wholesale market since May 30. Nucleic acid testing is being arranged in the neighborhood as a unit, and home observation is being conducted.

  [Commentary] Xu Ying said that to prevent the spread of the epidemic, community prevention and control measures have also been comprehensively improved. At present, all communities (villages) in the city have adopted three-level emergency response, two-level prevention and control measures, and one-level working status.

  [Same period] Xu Ying, member of the Beijing Municipal Organization Department

  All bayonet gates are staffed 24 hours to resume body temperature detection, strengthen the killing of public parts, and suspend the opening of indoor activities such as cultural and sports entertainment. Residents of this community (village) enter with a pass; people returning to Beijing must check the itinerary and fill in their personal information through the "Beijing Heart Help" applet; couriers, takeaways, housekeeping and other life service personnel, and other non-local communities (village) Residents are required to register for information and verify Beijing Healthbao's "no abnormality" status before entering.

  [Commentary] After the Beijing Xinfadi agricultural products wholesale market was closed, Beijing's vegetable supply situation has received much attention from the public. Wang Hongcun, a second-level inspector of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that at present, the gap in the supply of vegetables in the new development area is being quickly filled by other market players.

  [Same period] Wang Hongcun, the second inspector of Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce

  First, the temporary trading site in the new development area has been increased by 150 acres, from 5 to 6 previously. Today (15th), the market volume of vegetables in the temporary trading venue in Xinfa District is about 1,800 tons, 1.8 times that of the previous day. Secondly, the market volume of vegetables in major wholesale markets is also rapidly rising, and the gap in the supply of vegetables in Xinfadi is rapidly being filled by other market players. The market volume of vegetables in the seven major wholesale markets of the city increased by 5.5% month-on-month. The third is that all large-scale chain stores continue to increase the purchase volume of vegetables and fruits from abroad. Major supermarkets have strengthened store price control to ensure price stability and market supply.

  Wang Shibo Beijing Report

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]