A sudden epidemic, let "don't go out" become most people's code of conduct. However, there is still such a group of "retrograde" people: they wear masks in the first line of three shifts, they drive thousands of miles of aid, they in the current to the epidemic area forward...
January 22, Guangzhou Liby Group office meeting, chairman Chen Kaishuan announced: We have donated 200 million yuan worth of disinfection and sterilization materials to 2,199 hospitals designated for treatment of the novel coronavirus across the country, including Wuhan, to provide a safer working environment for medical staff and combat the increasingly serious epidemic, given the overall shortage of disinfection and sterilization materials on the front lines of medical care.
With the Spring Festival approaching, the epidemic is severe, factories are shut down, raw materials for disinfection and sterilization are insufficient, and logistics are limited... It is still a difficult and severe choice for a daily chemical company like Liby to donate 200 million yuan of sterilization materials and distribute them to 2,199 designated hospitals across the country.
The original intention of unshirkable responsibility
In the impression of Xu Xiaodong, vice president of Liby Group, Liby from top to bottom, from inside the group to external suppliers and dealer partners, from the front-line production workshop employees to the drivers who go thousands of miles away to distribute donated materials in the epidemic area, there is no need for unified thinking. We all have four words: responsibility.
On January 21, the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak entered the office meeting at Liby Group level for the first time. The Chinese company, which contributed to the SARS, Wenchuan and H1N1 epidemics, has decided to come forward as it has in the past.
At that time, medical staff all over the country rushed to the clinical front line. However, medical masks, goggles, protective clothing and sterilization products are in short supply. The next day, Chen Kaixuan, chairman of Liby Group, said at a group meeting: "In the face of this sudden, very serious and influential national epidemic and disaster, we stand up to the responsibility of the white people. They must stand up, take responsibility and make a difference. Therefore, I decided to donate 200 million yuan of disinfection and sterilization materials to help fight the epidemic, and use concrete actions to call on, lead and lead the society to fight the epidemic together."
Disinfection products made by Liby and its majority-owned Chawoon Group have been in demand during the pandemic, along with face masks. More than 1,300 Liby distributors have placed urgent orders for hospital bed sheets, laundry liquid that can effectively clean hospital bed sheets, medical workers' work clothes and a variety of disinfectants that can inactivate the novel coronavirus. However, Liby has decided to give priority to donating disinfection and sterilization materials to the hospitals receiving the novel coronavirus in the front line, and to make all-out efforts to fight the epidemic.
At the same time, Liby Group and its subsidiary Chaoyun Group began a full emergency resumption of work, as soon as possible to complete the production of 200 million yuan donated materials, and priority distribution of the novel coronavirus hospitals; All products of the group during the epidemic period do not allow any channel any dealer to raise prices, to let consumers as usual to buy.
North from Heilongjiang to Guangdong, Liby staff to return
However, after Liby decided to donate 200 million yuan to 2,199 designated hospitals across the country, it had to face various difficulties behind the choice.
The first dilemma is the supply of raw materials.
The raw materials needed to produce large quantities of disinfection and sterilization products in a short period of time are indeed beyond the normal stock reserve of Liby, so it is urgent to coordinate the supply of suppliers. Liby has even had to help suppliers lobby the local government to reopen their factories.
Xu Xiaodong recalled, "The most complicated work at that time was to ask suppliers and municipal governments around the country, where Liby's production base is located, to give us the green light to allow workers to return to the front line in the name of Liby Group and to donate 200 million yuan of sterilization materials. We assured local municipalities that we would give workers tight security. Local governments have been understanding and supportive."
The second dilemma is that Liby needs to bring employees back from the joy of family reunion to the first-line production workshop on three shifts in the shortest possible time.
Before this, Liby has not a holiday on duty to occupy the first post. At 11 o 'clock on New Year's Eve, January 24, more than ten staff on duty of Liby Group completed the inventory and sorting of donated materials loaded by 5 heavy trucks within 3 hours with high efficiency.
On the first day of the New Year, the first carload of Liby Group was sent to the Second People's Hospital of Guangdong Province. As of January 28, the first batch of donated materials from Liby Group is being delivered to 33 designated hospitals in Guangdong Province and Wuhan City, the epicenter of the epidemic.
Meanwhile, from Heilongjiang in the north to Guangdong in the south, Liby employees began to return to action. Before employees return to the production workshop, the first thing Libai should do is to prepare for disinfection and epidemic prevention in the factory, and monitor the temperature of employees every day to prevent infection.
So far, more than 1,100 Liby employees have been redeployed in three shifts at the company's five major production bases in Panyu, Guangdong province, and Maanshan, Anhui province, Xu said. Fortunately, up to now, none of the frontline employees of Liby's production bases and suppliers have been suspected of being infected with the novel coronavirus.
The third dilemma is that Liby needs to deliver 200 million yuan of donated disinfection and sterilization materials to 2,199 designated hospitals nationwide in the shortest possible time.
Liby will determine the allocation of sterilization materials based on the severity of the epidemic and the number of hospitals treated by the novel coronavirus. Hubei, for example, is the worst-hit province, with more than 100 hospitals receiving treatment, including Leishenshan and Huoshenshan. More disinfection supplies will also be delivered to other hard-hit provinces such as Guangdong, Zhejiang and Henan.
According to the logistics distribution plan, more than 710,000 boxes of sterilization materials worth 200 million yuan are needed for long-distance transportation of 400,000 kilometers by 1,000 heavy-duty trucks. If at least one driver is isolated from the truck for 14 days per shipment, the overall delivery of donated supplies will be slowed down considerably.
"On the one hand, we are actively communicating and coordinating with provinces like Hubei, which have been hit hard by the epidemic, and on the other hand, we are also looking for logistics resources from various channels at the social level to speed up the distribution of logistics," Xu said.
We have confidence in fighting the epidemic
So far, the first batch of disinfection materials donated by Liby has been delivered to all designated hospitals in Guangdong Province. In Hubei, the worst-hit province, disinfection supplies have been delivered to hospitals in Leishenshan and Huoshenshan in Wuhan, and to Xiaogan and Shiyan.
"As an industry insider, I am confident that the supply of anti-epidemic products will recover," Xu said, referring to the current market shortage of masks, alcohol and disinfection products. Even though the demand is so great, I believe that with the strong domestic production capacity, part of the shortage will be alleviated quickly. In Liby's case, production will peak within the next week as employees return, tripling production of the disinfectant that everyone desperately needs. The same is believed to be true for other products such as face masks and protective clothing. By then, not only will health care workers across the country have a safer working environment, but consumers will also be protected during the pandemic. The next step for Liby is to resume production of all factories eligible for operation, and to deliver 200 million yuan of donated materials for disinfection and sterilization as soon as possible to meet the needs of mass consumers. We have confidence in fighting the epidemic."
Source: People.com.cn
