While efforts to contain COVID-19 continue in Shanghai, the city’s key industries and enterprises are gradually resuming production to ensure the needs of industrial and supply chains can be met. As of Saturday, more than 700 vehicles have rolled off the restarted assembly line at SAIC Motor’s plant in Lingang in the southeast of the city, said Ji Qiwei, vice-general manager of SAIC Motor Passenger Vehicle.
SAIC, China’s largest listed automaker, began running stress tests at the plant on April 18, and the first complete vehicle rolled off the assembly line on April 19. “With the gradual recovery of logistics and the supply chain, we have started to evaluate our production line and supply chain and adjust preparations for resumed production. The stress tests will allow us to further expand capacity,” said Chen Peifeng, a director at SAIC Motor’s Lingang plant.
Production has also slowly restarted at SAIC Motor’s plants in Nanjing, Jiangsu province; Zhengzhou, Henan province; and Ningde, Fujian province. “We have restored 90 percent of our production capacity, and 75 percent of our front-line staff have returned to work,” said Jiang Cailin, general manager of Shanghai Electric Nuclear Power Equipment.
More front-line staff will get back to work in the following days, he added. Currently, 70 percent of the city’s 666 key enterprises have resumed operation, Zhang Wei, vice-mayor of Shanghai, said during a news conference on Friday. The resumption of production at these bellwether enterprises will drive a large number of companies along the manufacturing and industrial chains to resume production, said Wu Jincheng, director of the Shanghai Commission of Economy and Informatization.
According to Chen, supply chains have been challenged by the current outbreak, and the group is working hard to get them and industrial chains across the Yangtze River Delta region back to normal. – China Daily
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