On October 4, 2022, two individuals tested positive for COVID-19 during a highway exit screening in Dongbao District, Jingmen City. To effectively curb the spread of the virus, the city's epidemic prevention and control headquarters decided to implement temporary control measures in the central urban area of Jingmen City starting at 5:00 AM on October 5. Movement of people was restricted, with a 'no entry, no exit' policy in place to minimize movement. The epidemic is the order, prevention is the responsibility; another 'war' against the epidemic, without gunfire, has begun.

Just as the entire city was immersed in the festive atmosphere of National Day, the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 caused this bustling city to enter a closed-off, static management state. Silence is a special expression during an epidemic, but also a silent strength. With continuous rain and a sudden drop in temperature outside, while all Jingmen residents stayed home, the on-site security battle of Jingmen Hongtu quietly began.

Emergency Action, Deployment Throughout the Night

In the early hours of the morning, Zheng Zhijun, general manager of Hongtu Company, urgently convened an emergency response team meeting to issue an urgent notice on strengthening epidemic prevention and control measures. The working group quickly formulated an epidemic prevention and control plan, seamlessly connecting to each link and assigning responsibilities. The entire factory implemented closed-off control, strengthening the management of personnel, vehicles, and materials entering and leaving, effectively implementing epidemic prevention and control requirements, and ensuring the health of company personnel. Zheng emphasized the need to coordinate epidemic prevention and control with production and operation, formulate and implement emergency response plans, establish a daily reporting mechanism during the closed-off control period, and make every effort to prevent the epidemic, stabilize production, and ensure safety.

Gathering Under the Stars, Rushing to the Frontline

The notice was issued in the early hours of the morning, during a long holiday. Despite the holiday, Hongtu employees sprang into action. Based on the principle of 'customer first, ensuring delivery,' to ensure the continuous and stable production of the enterprise during the lockdown, cadres and employees from various departments gathered overnight, quickly packed their bags and rushed to the company to prepare for 24-hour on-site work.

As of 9:00 AM on October 11, a total of 477 people had persevered, ensuring the normal production progress of the production line. Tu Xiaohong, the company's vice general manager, held daily online meetings with the production center, combining customer delivery needs with on-site conditions to arrange production, report progress, and solve problems.

Efficient and Pragmatic, Each Performing Their Duties

Production, procurement, and warehousing departments quickly conducted statistics on the inventory and in-transit status of materials and parts, actively negotiating with relevant government departments. With the strong support and guidance of the municipal government, and without violating epidemic prevention and control requirements, special personnel and vehicles were arranged to connect with material supply vehicles at checkpoints for cargo transfer. At the same time, personnel registration, information verification, and comprehensive disinfection were implemented for incoming materials to ensure material supply and uninterrupted production.

Safety and Quality, Strict Prevention and Control

To ensure the normal operation of safety work during the epidemic, HSE personnel were on duty around the clock, strictly managing doors, personnel, and vehicles. In accordance with the requirements of the city's epidemic prevention and control headquarters for universal nucleic acid testing, resources were actively coordinated with the city's health and health commission and disease control center to conduct on-site testing. Based on the nucleic acid test results of employees, feedback was provided to the epidemic emergency response team for summary. While strictly implementing epidemic prevention and control requirements, the intensity of on-site safety inspections was increased, a comprehensive safety inspection of production sites and equipment and facilities was carried out, and equipment maintenance and repair work was carried out in an orderly manner to ensure safe and orderly production.

The quality management department selected key personnel from various inspection teams to ensure normal inspection needs at the production site and the normal operation of quality work. In addition, online and video recording methods were used with testing institutions to ensure the normal flow and shipment of products under supervision.

Breaking Through Layer by Layer, Sales Continue

With the sudden outbreak of the epidemic and the inability to travel on business, the marketing team deployed work online daily and continued to carry out marketing work, ensuring that the work progress was not affected by the epidemic. Information was collected, customers were contacted, orders were communicated, and strategies were studied. During the epidemic prevention and control period, every effort was made to ensure delivery, achieving both epidemic prevention and control and delivery, and submitting a satisfactory answer to ensure customer interests.

Logistics Support, Building a Strong Defense Line

Static management is a test of the organization's emergency response capabilities, as well as a test of the logistics team's support capabilities. In the early morning of October 5, the epidemic emergency response team quickly activated the logistics support emergency plan, organizing spare rooms to solve the accommodation problem for on-site employees; strengthening material management, finding ways to purchase food and daily necessities to ensure the needs of employees; daily cleaning and disinfection of key areas such as offices, canteens, and toilets; arranging vehicles to pick up and drop off personnel who could not come to the factory due to traffic control, and delivering computers to those working from home. They are always contributing their strength in many visible and invisible ways to win this war without gunfire.

Frontline production employees are an important force in ensuring stable and smooth production. Zheng repeatedly emphasized in the meeting that all efforts must be made to ensure that on-site employees have no worries about food, clothing, housing, and transportation.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in January 2020, more than two years have passed. From the initial fear of the epidemic to the calm acceptance of it today, it must be said that preparedness prevents problems. Strict safety prevention and control, sufficient material guarantees, detailed production scheduling plans, and orderly on-site life have jointly ensured that Jingmen Hongtu has achieved stable production operation and the safety and well-being of all employees under such a difficult epidemic prevention situation.