At present, the situation of overseas epidemics is becoming increasingly serious. Poly Group quickly made a deployment. On March 13, the Poly epidemic prevention and control leading group held an emergency meeting which decided to set up an overseas epidemic prevention and control working group and issued a notice of guaranteeing overseas epidemic prevention and control. Xu Niansha, Chairman of Poly Group, conveyed the spirit of SASAC’s overseas epidemic prevention and control work, and made a major deployment of overseas epidemic prevention and control of the Group, requiring overseas institutions and employees to carry out relevant tasks of epidemic prevention and control.
The subsidiaries of Poly Group quickly responded by establishing overseas epidemic prevention and control teams in accordance, formulating targeted epidemic prevention and control plans, and actively stockpiling anti-epidemic materials. At the same time, they conveyed the concerns and condolences of the group leaders to overseas employees, and effectively addressed practical difficulties of overseas employees in the epidemic prevention and control work. On the premise of preventing and controlling epidemic situations and ensuring safety for overseas employees, the group promoted the orderly resumption of work and production in overseas projects.
Proactive Measures and Contingency Plans for Prevention and Control of COVID-19
Since the outbreak of the overseas epidemic, overseas branches of Poly Developments and Holdings Co., Ltd has made great efforts to build a “firewall” against overseas epidemic in order to ensure smooth and orderly production and operation. Taking domestic successful epidemic prevention experience, overseas branches of Poly Developments and Holdings Co., Ltd set up an epidemic prevention and control team when COVID-19 broke out in China, and formulated prevention and control measures and contingency plans -- ensure material reserves, strengthen cleaning and disinfection, provide remote office technical support and arrangements, conduct personnel registration, formulate contingency plans, and conduct training sessions on epidemic prevention and control knowledge for overseas employees. At present, none of the overseas projects of Poly Developments and Holdings Co., Ltd have been stopped by the epidemic. In addition, the Overseas Headquarters of Poly Developments and Holdings Co., Ltd also successfully organized an anti-epidemic fundraising event, calling on employees in the three countries to voluntarily donate money forthe frontline medical staff in Wuhan.
As an important pillar of the Group’s foreign trade sector, Poly International Holdings Co., Ltd began the research on prevention and control of overseas epidemics in early February. The company specially convened two special video conferences attended by heads of all overseas representative offices on epidemic prevention and control, and took effective measures to ensure the health and safety of overseas staff and their families.
So far, none of the employees of Poly International Holdings Co., Ltd and its overseas subsidiaries have been confirmed positive or identified as suspected cases of COVID-19.
After the outbreak of the epidemic, the North America Company of Poly Culture Group Co., Ltd took the immediate action of setting up an epidemic prevention and control working group and has made timely adjustments to its office practices due to the evolution of the epidemic. The company successively formulated the Contingency Plan for the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 of North American Company, Notice of Flexible Work During the Epidemic Period of North American Company, and Notice of Implementing Staggered Working Hours During the Outbreak of North American Company to ensure employees’ healthy and safety.
Special Countermeasures in Special Times for Smooth Progerss of Overseas Projects.
The overseas project department of China Haisum Engineering Co., Ltd under Sinolight Corporation actively followed the epidemic prevention and control requirements of host countries and formulated tailored countermeasures for their overseas projects. According to local conditions of different countries, the following measures have been taken, including temporary suspension of the return of overseas personnel to China, delivery of masks and protective supplies to the project department, and strengthened prevention and control measures. While ensuring the safety and physical health of employees, the company has taken multiple measures to ensure continuous global business and uninterrupted excellent Poly services.
The overseas project of Poly International Changda Engineering Co., Ltd strictly implemented epidemic prevention and control measures and ensured the resumption of production. The project personnel took stringent measures to prevent mass infections, and ensured the health and safety of all members of the project department. On the premise of effective prevention and control of the epidemic, the project personnel adhered to science-based overall planning of the construction organization, continued to increase investment in staffing and equipment, strengthened the investigation and rectification of hidden dangers in construction, and has won unanimous praise from the owners.
As of March, Vietnam Wanhong wrapping paper project of China Haisum Engineering Co., Ltd under Sinolight Corporation, the Thailand Double A project, two Substation projects of Chattogram and Lajie of China CEC Engineering Corporation, the Algeria project, the Ghana Housing Project of Poly Changda Engineering Co., Ltd, the Mauritania port project and the Congo overseas project are progressing smoothly. The company has also resumed production and production in a smooth and orderly manner.
Actively Raise Supplies to Help Overseas Epidemic Prevent and Control
Faced with the increasingly severe epidemic situation abroad and the shortage of protective materials, the subsidiaries of Poly Group actively raised materials to support overseas epidemic prevention and control. Sinolight Corporation’s overseas business unit contacted domestic mask manufacturers through various channels, and urgently deployed more than 2,000 disposable medical surgical masks to assist technical intern trainees and related partners in Japan. Poly Chemicals and Poly Xinlian Explosive Materials Co., Ltd., subsidiaries of Poly Unio Group Corporation, distributed masks and other prevent and control materials to employees and foreign employees in Tanzania and Namibia in a timely manner, and actively adopted various measures to ensure the epidemic prevention and control work.
In a world of shared future, love has no borders. Faced with the raging epidemic abroad, all the employees of Poly Group will stand by and will not be absent. We will fight against the epidemic together with the peoples of the world and we will wait together to greet the dawn.