DailyBriefingonFightingagainstCOVID19March92020

From: Foreign Affairs Office of Shenzhen Municipal People's Government

Updated: 2020-03-09 17:03

1. 10 government procurement measures are issued to ensure work and production resumption. Recently, Shenzhen Municipal Finance Bureau has issued Measures of Government Procurement to Help Enterprises Resume Work and Production and Tide Over Difficulties. Focusing on 10 specific measures, the document fully leverages the policy and guidance functions of government procurement to support work and production resumption of enterprises and help them tide over the difficulties, in a bid to ensure social stability and economic growth of the city. Measures in the document are highly targeted, instructive and easy to operate. Therefore, enterprises can benefit from them directly. (Source: Shenzhen Municipal Finance Bureau)

2. 97% of key projects have resumed operation with the city’s “lifeline” running smooth. As of Mar. 7, 97% of the city’s key projects related to epidemic prevention and control, city operation, people’s livelihood, etc., have resumed operation. Sectors such as water, power, fuel, gas, transportation and logistics that make up the city’s “lifeline” are running smooth and well guaranteed, effectively bolstering the high-quality development of the city. (Source: sznews.com)

3. 40,000 job posts are available at the 2020 Online Job Fair launched by Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Recently, Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau has launched the “The Fight against the Epidemic- Enterprise Recruitment Service” and “2020 Online Job Fair of Key Enterprises in Shenzhen”. 337 enterprises have signed up for the fair, of which 52 are businesses in essential industrial chains. Up to 40,000 job posts are available at the fair, with the highest monthly salary reaching 18,000 RMB. (Source: Shenzhen Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau)

4. Shenzhen Customs takes “best combination of measures” to help enterprises resume work and production. In order to help enterprises prevent and control the epidemic and restore work and production, Shenzhen Customs has constantly launched new measures, including goods clearance in batches with single declaration, export to domestic sales, goods pick-up at shipside, and truck loading upon arrival at port, etc. Shenzhen Customs has anticipated difficulties before they occur, carried out comprehensive measures, and launched the “best combination” of policies and services, in a bid to ensure enterprises’ work and production resumption and export expansion. It is reported that Shenzhen Customs will launch more precise and preferential service measures for enterprises to stabilize the “fundamentals” of foreign trade. (Source: Shenzhen Customs)

5. The first internet hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in Shenzhen has received more than 3,600 inquiries, reducing the risk of crowd gathering. The Internet Hospital of Bao’an TCM Hospital established this year is the first internet TCM hospital in Shenzhen. It has offered 3,607 free telephone and internet consultations, including 378 fever consultations and 1,221 online diagnosis and treatment. In particular, it provides online pre-examination and triage services for fever patients, so that people can see a doctor without leaving home, greatly reducing the risk of crowd gathering. (Source: Shenzhen Government Online)

6. Shenzhen’s first patient cured with plasma from recovered patients was discharged from hospital. On March 8, another patient in critical condition was cured and discharged from hospital in Shenzhen. It is reported that the COVID-19 patient was cured and discharged from the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen after treatment with plasma from recovered patients for the first time. The virus antibody extracted from the serum of the convalescent patients is not limited by blood type and can be used by all patients, which greatly improves the cure rate of the patients. (Source: Shenzhen Release)