Source: Wall Street Journal

Author: Selina Cheng, Dan Strumpf

After a major reversal of the China Crown Diqing Zero policy, Chinese factories are facing such a new reality: workers will often ask for leave due to illness or work with colleagues who have already infected viruses.

Earlier this month, the Chinese government began to cancel a number of most stringent crown disease prevention and control measures, including strict quarantine requirements and compulsory nucleic acid testing requirements. Previously, these measures have stabbed many Chinese people and disrupted the economy of the economy and disturbed the economy.Essence

Recently, some cities and regions, including the Western Manufacturing Center Chongqing, Guiyang, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, and Wuhu City, Anhui Province, even stated that milder infections can still go to work.

The strict epidemic prevention policy suddenly reverses after three years of implementation, so that enterprise employees can now enter and exit in factories and offices at will without need to detect nucleic acid testing, and they do not need to beolate after infection.The "closed -loop production model" has also stopped.Under this model, workers were isolated in the factory for several days or even weeks.

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The policy of turning in policy is that many factories are dealing with serious personnel shortages, and at the same time, they must work hard to ensure that employees are healthy.

Cameron Johnson, a partner of the consulting company Tidal Wave Solutions in Shanghai, said that from the perspective of operation, the situation of the factory is simply a mess.Johnson said that he heard from a plastic and other raw material suppliers in Dongguan, a southern manufacturing city that as many as 85%of workers have not arrived due to crown disease.

The rapid turn in this policy is in sharp comparison with the government's order to take strict and uncompromising measures, such as seal control, regular nucleic acid detection, radical isolation and tracking contact persons.

Zheng Yi, chairman of the Shanghai American Chamber of Commerce, said that to some extent, it is currently taking another extreme, and the government has very little guidance.He said that enterprises had to find ways to solve some basic problems and provide employees with health prevention equipment, including antigen, masks and medicines.

He said that these materials are exhausted.

The end of the dynamic clearing policy triggered a wave of infection.The officially announced daily new cases and deaths were very low. The National Health and Health Commission announced that 2,656 new local cases were added last Monday and 5 deaths were killed.However, experts believe that many infected people have not been counted. Interviews between our newspaper and Chinese factory workers show that relaxation of epidemic prevention regulations has caused many people to be infected.

Tesla Shanghai Super Factory and the staff of the factory of Volkswagen's factory in Changchun, Northeast City, said that the two factories have canceled the nucleic acid testing requirements for thousands of workers.

Now that Tesla employees enter the factory workshop no longer need 24 hours or 48 hours of nucleic acid testing negative proof. If symptoms similar to influenza occur, employees can now choose whether to detect themselves.Workers say that if the test results are positive, they should report to their supervisors and ask for sick leave.

A worker said that in a factory department in Tesla, about 20 employees asked for sick leave earlier this week, almost one -fifth of the entire team.

Tesla did not reply to the reporter's comment request.

In the Volkswagen Motor Factory in Changchun City, a staff member of the factory said that since December 17, the German auto manufacturer has been implementing a single -class system instead of two -class system.According to a company notified by the Wall Street Journal, the car manufacturer plans to resume two -class system last Wednesday to produce Volkswagen's high -end brand Audi models.

Volkswagen said its production in China last Monday is still stable.The company welcomed China to relax epidemic prevention restrictions and said it would help stable production.Volkswagen said that employees infected with crown disease should stay at home. In addition, all employees should wear masks to minimize the time in the office and maintain a distance.

The above -mentioned workers said that Volkswagen's employees have been required to have a lunch box distributed by a consumption company on the assembly line, rather than dining in the factory cafeteria, while maintaining a greater social distance.

In order to help workers cope with crown disease -related pressures, the union of the State -owned Shanghai Automobile Group Co., Ltd., which is a joint venture with Volkswagen and General Motors, provides employees with online psychological counseling services.

Dell Technology Group is located in Xiamen, a city in the southeast of China, and the epidemic prevention regulations are still strict.According to the news released by the Dell Factory's social media account on Tuesday, some office staff of the company's office is required to work at home. If employees want to enter some areas of the factory, they need to submit negative certificates for crown disease testing in the past 24 hours.

The department said that most of the maintenance services of the contractor were suspended, and during this period, Dell did not allow external visitors to enter the company without special permission.

Dell has not responded to the request for comment.

After reducing large -scale nucleic acid testing, China stopped statistics from asymptomatic infected people. This actually terminated the government's ability to evaluate the scale and degree of the current wave of infection.The announced low mortality and the terrible predictions of the epidemiological model are in sharp contrast; epidemiological models show that with the most contagious Omircodon strains so far spread in the crowd, cases will surge.

Since the cancellation of crown disease restrictions, China's official media has been reporting that large state -owned enterprises are abandoning closed -loop operations and restoring comprehensive production.The media reported that data on December 17 showed that since mid -November, Beijing's manufacturing industry has increased by 15%.

In social media, some users have posted posts about the extensive outbreak of crown disease in small factories across the country. A large number of workers in these factories ask for sick leave, resulting in delays for the performance of production and customer orders.

The chairman of the Chinese EU Chamber of Commerce Woodke said that the big turn of the Chinese government's epidemic prevention policy has hit confidence in the response to Chinese epidemic prevention, and government departments must work hard to re -gain the trust of the business community.

However, Woodker also said that although suddenly re -opening is destructive, it is a better way forward compared to the previous continued sealing control.The previous long -term closed control has interfered with the supply chain, and companies are almost unable to carry out business planning.

Woodkek said that the only good news is that most people recovered after seven to ten days and returned to work. Compared with before, the closed control policy began at the end of March this year made people predict the next 60 or80 days.