Policies rolled out to facilitate orderly production resumption of enterprises amid epidemic
By People’s Daily
Chinese local governments and relevant departments are
rolling out policies and measures to stabilize employment and help enterprises
resume production in an orderly manner amid the current novel coronavirus
epidemic.
Cities in east China’s Zhejiang province have implemented
effective measures to help employees return to work. For instance, Yiwu
announced that the government will pay for all the charter vehicles services
for enterprises to bring their employees back to the workplace.
On Feb.18, Wuxing district of Huzhou, Zhejiang province
chartered a plane to bring back 165 employees from southwest China’s Yunnan
province. After arriving at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, these
employees were later sent to Huzhou by coaches dispatched by the district
government.
“We have dispatched seven coaches to pick them up, and each
one was equipped with epidemic prevention and control materials such as masks,
forehead thermometers, and disinfectants. We also prepared food and water for
them,” said Guo Shizhong, director of the human resources and social security
bureau of Wuxing district.
Such heartwarming measures, including charter vehicles,
flights and trains, have been employed in more and more regions across the
country to help enterprises take employees back to work.
On Feb. 17, the first train chartered by southwest China’s
Sichuan province to send its migrant workers to workplaces arrived at Hangzhou.
The government of Hangzhou’s Yuhang district dispatched staff to pick them up.
More such trains are expected to depart from Sichuan, one of the major sources
of migrant workers.
Such one-stop services have effectively reduced the risk of
cross-infection and traffic hazards that might be encountered by migrant
workers who take high-frequency transfers on their inter-provincial trips to
workplaces, thus guaranteeing human resources for enterprises to resume
production.
By Feb. 19, Sichuan had chartered 571 vehicles, 2 flights,
and 4 trains, sending 21,612 migrant workers in the province to their
workplaces. It is learnt that over 2.3 million migrant workers from Sichuan had
returned to the places where they work.
To help the enterprises who are currently going through
difficulties of labor shortage, local governments across China have formulated
measures to stabilize employment. They established recruitment coordination
platforms, and helped enterprises release online job information.
The National Xinjiang Zhundong Economic-Technological
Development Park is located in the hinterland of Gobi Desert in Changji Hui
Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Around 40,000 employees working there who went home for family reunion before
the Spring Festival holiday were not able to go back to work on time because of
the epidemic, which posed a serious challenge for the development park’s
production.
To cope with this situation, the development park set up a
steering group – a skeleton crew consisting 42 professionals and technicians in
coal power, coal mine, chemical engineering and security industries, so as to
make coordinated production plans and offer technical consultation for
enterprises there. The group has effectively made up the weakness of labor
shortage, and guaranteed epidemic prevention and work resumption at the same
time.
To help guarantee employment for enterprises amid the epidemic,
Huangpu district, Guangzhou, capital of south China’s Guangdong province has taken
online all of its job fairs.
By enhancing the frequency and expanding the coverage of
recruitment information and carrying out online written tests and interviews,
the district has helped enterprises locating candidates in a rapid manner.
By Feb. 19, the human resources and social security bureau
of Huangpu district had released more than 10,000 pieces of recruitment
information for 177 companies through 8 online recruitment activities, and helped
recruit over 1,700 employees for 21 out of the district’s top 100 enterprises.
In an effort to help enterprises tide over the difficult
time, local governments across China have also rolled out policies to lower
enterprises’ energy cost, reduce or exempt rent, and offer subsidies for stabilizing
employment.
Northeast China’s Liaoning province recently formulated 25
measures that offer interest discount and rent cuts, in a bid to have small-
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play their due role in epidemic prevention
and control, ensure healthy operation, and realize stable development.
The China Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of China,
among others, have provided low-interest loans to relieve the burden of
enterprises, said an executive of Northeast Pharm, a pharmaceutical group in
Liaoning province.
“Our corporation is expected to get 2.5 million yuan
($355,500) of subsidies for stabilizing employment,” said the executive.
A large number of state-owned incubators in Shanghai have decided
to exempt and reduce rent for enterprises. They formulated exemption plans
after thorough investigation, and over 200 million yuan is expected to be saved
for enterprises.
Workers assemble and test CT equipment at a production base
of a medical imaging equipment company in Beijing, Feb. 20. By Feb. 20, all
companies producing epidemic prevention materials in Beijing have resumed
production. (Photo by He Yong/People’s Daily)
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