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On the evening of February 14, 2020, the State Council’s Medical Material Assurance Group for the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the New Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic Convened a video and telephone conference on the expansion and conversion of medical protective clothing. Wang Zhijun, member of the Party Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the meeting and delivered a speech , Tian Yulong, a member of the party group and chief engineer of the Ministry, conveyed the important spirit of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the protection of medical supplies for epidemic prevention and control, the resumption of production and work, and the organization of enterprise expansion and production of medical protective clothing, and chaired the meeting.

Wang Zhijun emphasized that organizing medical material production enterprises to resume work and production, expand supply, and strengthen medical material guarantee capabilities is a major political task entrusted to us by the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and it is also an inescapable responsibility of the national industry and information system. In the next step, the central and local governments will cooperate to ensure the protection of medical supplies, especially the protection of medical protective clothing, and the following points must be implemented:

One is to fully understand the importance and urgency of ensuring medical supplies;

The second is to deploy as soon as possible to arrange for local enterprises to expand and switch production of medical protective clothing;

The third is to make good use of the existing policies to effectively create good conditions for the conversion and expansion of enterprises; the fourth is to implement responsibilities at various levels, and to organize various tasks.

Tian Yulong affirmed the work and effectiveness of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in strengthening the protection of medical supplies in the previous stage, and requested that the next five tasks should be focused on:

One is to make every effort to ensure the production and supply of key enterprises of medical protective clothing;

The second is to organize a batch of qualified companies in other industries to convert into medical protective clothing as soon as possible, and select a batch of qualified companies and qualified medical companies to expand production capacity through professional collaboration and commissioned processing;

The third is to accelerate the implementation of relevant fiscal, taxation and financial preferential policies;

Fourth, continue to strengthen the unified management and unified deployment of medical material resources, and strengthen the allocation of products, raw materials, and key equipment that are in short supply;

The fifth is to establish a cooperation mechanism with a clear division of labor.

Relevant responsible comrades of the member units of the Medical Material Security Group, the National Health Commission and the State Food and Drug Administration, the responsible comrades of the member units of the Leading Group for Epidemic Response of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the competent departments of industry and information technology, health, health, and pharmaceuticals of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities The responsible comrades of the supervisory department attended the meeting at the main venue in Beijing and the branch venues in various regions.