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Source :Shenzhen Daily

The companies operating in the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone resumed work and production Monday at full speed to safeguard the normal business operations in all related sectors.

After a weeklong COVID lockdown, the Qianhai Comprehensive Bonded Zone has returned to its busy and bustling normal.

YH Global, a unicorn supply chain company, started to prepare resuming production last Friday after receiving approval from government authorities. “We had registered with the Qianhai authority and the subdistrict where the company belongs in terms of personnel and anti-pandemic measures. Some of our staff came back to their positions last Saturday after the company accepted safety inspections and guidance from the Qianhai authority,” said Su Baoyin, general manager of YH Global.

According to Su, the company prioritized its backlog of orders to process the orders as quickly as possible and sorted out employees who can come to work normally and those who cannot, so as to make reasonable work arrangements.

“It is expected that we can resume 100 percent production capacity three or five days later, and we will take strict anti-pandemic measures to ensure the safety of our staff and the normal business operation of the company’s whole supply chain,” Su said.

Kintetsu Logistics (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd., another supply chain company operating in the bonded zone, resumed partial work and production two days ahead of the whole city’s normal operation to help the company’s upstream and downstream enterprises quickly resume normal operations. The early preparations allowed the company to resume normal operations on Monday.

Shenzhen Factors Association, an industry leader whose members’ business volume accounts for more than 50 percent of that of the country’s total, resumed on-site office work Monday.

According to Yin Jiangshan, president of the association, when this new wave of COVID-19 pandemic broke out citywide, the association called on all its members to increase financing support for small, medium and micro-sized enterprises, especially those that are closely related to the normal operation of society during the epidemic.

The call received quick responses. Asia Factor, a member of the Shenzhen Factors Association, prepaid 320 million yuan (US$50.3 million) for several take-away delivery service companies to cover their more than 63,000 employees’ salary. The effort greatly alleviated the companies’ financial stress caused by the pandemic.