The Pentium Era - South to North

The year 2003 was an unforgettable year for all Chinese people. The strange disease that Zhang Chen’s mother talked about started in Heyuan, Guangdong in December of the previous year. By the beginning of 2003, it spread south to Places such as Hong Kong and Vietnam, and further north, spread to Beijing and the rest of the country.

Everyone calls this disease SARS, and the official name of the World Health Organization is "Severe Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)". It should be said that when the SARS epidemic first began, people were concerned about this epidemic that they had never experienced before. The understanding of it is insufficient, and its pathology, toxicity and transmission routes are all blank.

Our country’s public health system has experience in preventing and treating schistosomiasis and leprosy. Our country’s public health system has always called plague 01 disease and cholera 02 disease. I never thought that one day, someone This type of pneumonia would become an epidemic sweeping the country. At that time, everyone’s understanding of the dangers of pneumonia was limited to silicosis.

Miners in mines, quarries, cement plants and sand foundry operators became silicosis patients because of inhaling a large amount of dust. Therefore, various silicosis sanatoriums, large and small, were established across the country to protect their health. healthy.

The extreme understanding of pneumonia is limited to this.

In addition, our entire health system is severely fragmented, which makes timely reporting and statistics of the epidemic difficult.

For example, in Hangzhou, the Provincial People's Hospital belongs to the Provincial Department of Health, City No. 1 to City No. 7 hospitals belong to the Hangzhou City Health Bureau, Zhejiang No. 1, Zhejiang No. 2 and Shaw Hospital belong to Zhejiang University, 117, 903 and Armed Police General Hospital, respectively. They belong to the army and armed police, while Hangzhou Steel Hospital and Hangzhou Bo Hospital belong to enterprises. They do not have a unified system, which has brought difficulties to the rapid response at the beginning of the epidemic.

By April 17, senior central officials had fully realized the seriousness and potential threat of SARS and began to go all out to respond. At the same time, they formally warned local officials that officials who underreported or concealed the epidemic would face severe punishment.

The next day, the Chinese government held another press conference and announced that the number of cases in Beijing had suddenly increased from 37 to 339.

From top to bottom, we started to prepare for the epidemic and started the epidemic prevention and control war. In Beijing, Xiaotangshan Hospital was quickly built, and special fever outpatient hospitals were opened in various places to implement mass prevention and treatment.

Due to the need for epidemic prevention, the development zone management committee asked Zhang Chen and others to keep all workers in the factory and not to go out. The May Day holiday will also be cancelled. After Zhang Chen and Zhao Zhigang held an all-staff meeting, they The door from the living area to Gaosha Road is closed. Employees can only go to and from work through the door connecting the factory area to the living area.

The door leading to the outside of the factory area is strictly controlled. Except for those who purchase and deliver goods, no one else can enter or exit.

The production and life in the factory were still going on, which gave Zhang Chen an illusion, thinking that this was just an illness. It would pass in about five or six days and a week.

However, Zhang Chen's illusion was soon shattered by the successive orders for epidemic prevention and control, and the daily increase in confirmed, suspected, and dead cases announced on television and print media.

Zheng Huihong called Zhang Chen and told him that a suspected case was found in their company. Now their entire department cannot go to work. Now everyone needs to self-quarantine at home for a week.

"So awesome?" Zhang Chen said.

"That's right, Mr. Zhang, this disease is so serious. You must be careful. There are so many people in the factory, and if there is any suspicion, it will be over." Zheng Huihong warned.

Zhang Chen said okay, thank you.

Soon, something more serious happened. Zhang Chen went to the distribution center and found that the daily replenishment orders were gone. Those general agents who had already placed replenishment orders also called and asked to cancel the orders.

The people at the distribution center told Zhang Chen, and Zhang Chen smiled and said, these people are rare and strange. When they replenish the goods, they will find it is too late. At that time, everyone will break their heads to grab them again.

"No, Mr. Zhang, there are no sales now." The staff said to Zhang Chen.

Zhang Chen's heart skipped a beat. He picked up the daily sales report and took a look at it. He found that the sales in coastal cities were now only 10% of the original. The mainland was a little better, but only 20 to 30%. Zhang Chen smiled and said, it's okay, it's not what it is like on TV. Are there any epidemics being broadcast every day? Everyone is scared. It is normal for sales to decline, but they will recover soon. Summer has not started yet.

Zhang Chen called Zhao Zhigang over and told him that he would use this period of time to stock up on goods so that when the epidemic passes in a few days and orders come in in droves, there won't be nothing to ship.

Zhao Zhigang said yes.

Zhang Chen called Xiao Zhao, who was in Beijing. Xiao Zhao and Zhang Chen said that although there is no one in the mall now and the May Day holiday has been cancelled, Parkson Shopping Center still requires us to enter before May Day.

Zhang Chen smiled and said, that means their judgment is consistent with mine, and they also believe that the epidemic will pass soon.

Xiao Zhao responded hummingly, and she said, of course, we have to go there soon, otherwise it will be over.

"How about our own store?" Zhang Chen asked.

"There was no one, no sales. There was no one in Wangfujing. Hongmei and I drove out at night. At about nine o'clock, there was no one on the street. They were all stray cats and dogs. We didn't believe it. This was still Beijing. ."

"You said the streets are full of stray cats and dogs. Why?" Zhang Chen was puzzled.

Xiao Zhao said: "These people are very outrageous. Didn't they say that animals are easily infected with viruses? They threw their pet cats and dogs on the street. Although the government reminded them to hand them over to centralized shelters, they didn't care. Throw it away as garbage.

"In a house downstairs from Hongmei's house, when we went back, we saw that the abandoned dog had been found back somehow. He was squatting at the door and crying. He really was crying. That person's share of , just refused to open the door, so we took it home.”

Zhang Chen shook his head. There is a saying that describes couples, saying that when disaster strikes, they fly away separately. This is not the case for husband and wife, let alone treating pets. These people usually call their pets baby, son, and darling. In times of crisis, the selfish nature of human beings will prevail. Get rid of the usual casual and overflowing so-called love.

"You, Xiaoli, and Hongmei should be careful. The epidemic in Beijing is very serious now," Zhang Chen said.

Xiao Zhao said yes, when we go out, we all wear masks. Haha, my dear, you don’t know that now the streets in Beijing are full of people wearing masks. Now the mask makers are getting rich. Is this the same in Hangzhou?

"No, very few, especially in the factory, no one wears a mask. But now, the workshop cafeteria and dormitories have to be disinfected with disinfectants every day. Disinfectants are not available now. Fortunately, Li Yong helped me get some."

"Hmm, Li Yong is very busy now, right?" Xiao Zhao asked.

"Yes, he is now the commander-in-chief of epidemic prevention and control in Hangzhou and is very busy."

In the next few days, the clothing kept being produced in the workshop and there was no place to distribute it. The distribution center was soon full. Looking at the daily sales report of each place, there was not even 10%, and it went directly to zero. , and the epidemic seems to have not ended yet.

Zhang Chen received more and more calls from general agents, all complaining about the lack of business. Zhang Chen could only comfort them, saying that things would get better soon and that the epidemic would pass.

Ma Ya called Zhang Chen, almost crying, and said to Zhang Chen: "Brother Zhang, my store is full of goods. The stores below have all returned the goods. They are piled here. Zhang Brother, I don’t know what to do, I’m going to die this year.”

There is a situation that Zhang Chen has never known, that is, although his company has signed a 30% exchange rate with the general agents, the general agents, behind his back, in order to attract the people below to join, also In order to compete with other brands, the exchange rate was directly adjusted to 100%.

In normal days, it is impossible to say that a piece of clothing cannot be sold. A 100% exchange rate is just a gimmick, but in reality it is only thirty or forty.

General agents, if they switch between different stores themselves, the exchange rate will not be that high.

Moreover, these general agents come to the company for meetings every year. They are familiar with each other and have contact with each other. If one place does this, the effect is good, other places will follow suit. The result is that everyone is 100% familiar with the following. Only Zhang Chen didn't know the exchange rate.

With this year's epidemic, every store has no sales, and the deadline for exchange is one month. When the time is approaching, those second- and third-level agents returned all the goods in the store to the general agent, and the general agent There was no 100% exchange rate between the agents and Zhang Chen, so they were dumbfounded. The store would be full of goods like what Ma Ya said.

Thirty percent of them were returned to the factory, but the store was still full of goods. These goods couldn't be sold and there was no way to return them, so they would fall into their hands. Don't say Ma Ya, she even wanted to die. All.

Sales in various places were zero, and there was no place to deliver goods. On the contrary, every day the cars from the factory drove out, and all they brought back were returns. There were so many returns that the people in the distribution center had no way to sort them out. They could only sort them out. Bags were piled in the hallway by the door.

Only then did Zhang Chen realize the seriousness of the matter. He asked Zhao Zhigang to immediately stop producing goods for domestic sales and instead only produce goods for export. However, their production capacity this year has suddenly expanded so much. If all of them are produced for export, where will they be? There is such a large volume in the workshop, so those who used to have to work overtime every day no longer work overtime.

Then, there is not so much work to do without overtime, so we can only let everyone work and play for half a day.

But then, a new problem arose, that is, many auxiliary materials could no longer be purchased. The factories that originally produced these auxiliary materials were not very large. As soon as they heard the requirements of governments at all levels, they kept the workers in the factory. Being here means that these workers must be supported, so many factories secretly send their workers home during the holidays.

The supply of auxiliary materials is not available, production has become intermittent, and even delivery cannot be delivered on time. Xu Qiaoxin and the others can only keep apologizing to customers and explaining what is going on with this year's epidemic.

At this time, Zhang Chen felt that the higher he climbed, the harder he fell. He spent so much money last year to put on a successful fashion show. It seems that the sales area has expanded, and the production capacity has also followed. Expansion, but I didn’t expect that success would bring not a sweet fruit, but a bitter one.

Whether you can swallow this bitter pill or not, you must swallow it.

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