According to the latest news, on the evening of the 23rd, the Ministry of Commerce issued a notice on 'Coordinating the Work of Ensuring the Supply of Daily Necessities', which states: Provincial-level commerce departments are required to organize commercial enterprises to resume work and production in an orderly and forceful manner while ensuring epidemic prevention and control safety, and to further ensure the supply of daily necessities.

The notice requires that while the top leader personally oversees epidemic prevention, they should quickly organize capable personnel, formulate and improve work plans, and orderly promote the resumption of business operations of commercial enterprises. It is necessary to promptly identify problems on the front lines of epidemic prevention and work resumption, decisively coordinate and handle them, further straighten out the relationship between epidemic prevention and control and work resumption, effectively achieve both epidemic prevention and work resumption, and minimize the impact of prevention and control on the production and life of the masses.

The full text is as follows:

Notice of the Ministry of Commerce on Coordinating the Work of Ensuring the Supply of Daily Necessities

To the commerce departments of all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government, cities with separate planning status, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and sub-provincial capital cities:

In order to thoroughly implement the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the spirit of the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Central Leading Group for Epidemic Response and the requirements of the 'Guiding Opinions on Scientific Prevention and Control, Precise Policy Implementation, and Differentiated Prevention and Control of COVID-19 by Region and Level' issued by the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council, and while ensuring epidemic prevention and control safety, we will organize commercial enterprises to resume work and production in an orderly and forceful manner, and further ensure the supply of daily necessities. The relevant work is hereby notified as follows:

I. Raise the political stance and continuously strengthen organizational leadership. It is necessary to deeply understand the new judgments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the epidemic situation and the new deployment of prevention and control work, further improve the political stance, and according to the dynamic adjustments made by the local party committee and government for precise prevention and control by region and level, conform to the situation, clarify the thinking, and promptly correct biased and extreme practices in prevention and control. While the top leader personally oversees epidemic prevention, they should quickly organize capable personnel, formulate and improve work plans, and orderly promote the resumption of business operations of commercial enterprises. It is necessary to promptly identify problems on the front lines of epidemic prevention and work resumption, decisively coordinate and handle them, further straighten out the relationship between epidemic prevention and control and work resumption, effectively achieve both epidemic prevention and work resumption, and minimize the impact of prevention and control on the production and life of the masses.

II. Improve mechanisms and strengthen support for key regions. If Wuhan is stable, then Hubei is stable; if Hubei is stable, then the whole country is stable. The commerce departments of relevant regions should, in accordance with the requirements of the 'Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Commerce on Further Improving the Joint Supply Guarantee Cooperation Mechanism of Nine Provinces during the COVID-19 Epidemic Prevention and Control Period' and the 'Notice on Strengthening the Work of the Joint Supply Guarantee Cooperation Mechanism of Nine Provinces during the Epidemic Prevention and Control Period', fully cooperate to further strengthen the joint supply guarantee cooperation mechanism of nine provinces and enhance the effectiveness of ensuring the supply of daily necessities in Hubei and Wuhan. Commerce departments at all levels should focus on eight categories of daily necessities: vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, rice, flour, edible oil, and convenience food, ensuring sufficient total supply. Strengthen market monitoring and early warning, grasp the dynamics of inventory and supply sources, and actively expand import channels; Promptly do a good job in docking and coordinating with key enterprises for supply guarantee, effectively strengthen the transportation of goods as needed by both supply and demand sides, guide enterprises to increase the frequency and intensity of replenishment, and prevent shortages of goods, centralized purchasing, and empty shelves in large and medium-sized cities.

III. Implement precise policies and orderly promote work resumption and production. In accordance with the principle of 'scientific assessment, highlighting key points, differentiated management and control, and orderly expansion', and combined with the local epidemic situation and the actual needs of economic and social development, and in accordance with the requirements of the local party committee and government, do a good job in differentiated prevention and control by region and level, and orderly arrange the resumption of business operations of commercial enterprises. Hubei Province and Wuhan City, on the basis of implementing the strictest prevention and control measures, should guide qualified commercial enterprises to innovate and carry out new convenient supply guarantee models such as 'community purchasing on behalf + centralized distribution' and 'online ordering + contactless delivery'. Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, Henan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangxi and other key epidemic prevention and control regions should accurately assess the epidemic risk and scientifically divide and prevent by region. High-risk areas, while strictly managing and controlling, should prioritize organizing enterprises operating daily necessities to resume work; medium and low-risk areas should focus on preventing external input while also preventing internal spread, and promptly and orderly mobilize commercial circulation enterprises to resume business operations, continuously expanding the scope of business formats. Other non-key epidemic prevention and control regions should, on the basis of ensuring epidemic prevention safety, make every effort to comprehensively organize and mobilize commercial enterprises to resume work and open, and it is strictly forbidden to simply close down or stop operations.

IV. Problem-oriented, optimize service guarantee measures. Under the unified coordination of the local living materials guarantee group, actively cooperate with relevant departments to promptly solve difficult problems in work resumption and production. Vigorously simplify the approval process for resumption of work; for enterprises that have been ordered to close due to prevention and control needs, promptly arrange for review, and those that meet the prevention and control requirements should be approved to resume work in an orderly manner; for enterprises that already meet the conditions for resumption, increase mobilization efforts and promptly organize them to open for business; focus on ensuring the urgent needs of epidemic prevention supplies on the front line of work resumption, and strengthen epidemic prevention safety guidance; promptly implement or coordinate the introduction of a number of policies and measures to meet the employment needs of enterprises and alleviate their operational difficulties. Resolutely unblock transportation bottlenecks. Together with public security, transportation, health and other departments, strictly implement the requirements of 'five prohibitions', 'one break, three continuous', 'five no's and one support', promptly stop unauthorized roadblocks, village closures, road closures, and other actions that block traffic, continuously optimize the setting of traffic epidemic prevention inspections, unblock the main arteries of transportation, ensure the smooth flow of logistics microcirculation, accelerate the transportation of daily necessities, and effectively improve the efficiency of replenishment and supply guarantee.

V. Overall planning and promotion of the development of commercial affairs. While making every effort to ensure the supply of daily necessities, we must conscientiously implement the deployment of the Central Economic Work Conference and coordinate the promotion of various tasks arranged by the National Commercial Work Conference. We must promptly analyze the impact of the epidemic and market trends, make forward-looking judgments, and propose feasible contingency plans. We must adapt to local conditions and promptly introduce practical and effective policies of 'one promotion and two stability' to minimize the impact of the epidemic on the commercial field and resolutely complete the annual goals and tasks of the commercial sector.

Commerce departments at all levels must resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, unify thinking, raise the political stance, clearly understand the situation, take the initiative, coordinate the work of ensuring the supply of daily necessities, and better meet the basic living needs of the people. Please report the relevant situation to the Ministry of Commerce in a timely manner as required.

Seeing this news, I believe many distributor friends should be able to show a smile. Recently, in the circle of friends of 'New Distribution', we also see that most distributors have begun to resume work one after another, returning to normal business operations, stepping up replenishment and distribution, and further carrying out remedial measures to reduce losses caused by the market.

Today is the second day of the second lunar month, the day of the dragon raising its head. I wish distributor friends a prosperous start in the spring, and the business of 2020 truly begins now!

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