On March 24, 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology held a video conference on the resumption of work and production of SMEs. The meeting was chaired by Liang Zhifeng, director of the SME Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and a member of the party group and deputy minister Zhang Kejian attended the meeting. Relevant persons in charge of small and medium-sized enterprises in Fujian, Henan, Hunan, and Sichuan provinces, and representatives of eight professional, precise, characteristic and innovated “small giant” enterprises and representatives of “professional, precise, characteristic and innovated “ SMEs made exchange speeches. Relevant personnel from the Bureau of Small and Medium Enterprises and the Department of Industrial Policy and Regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology attended the meeting.

As one of the representatives of professional, specified, characteristic and novel enterprise in Fujian province, chairman Huang Hualing attended the meeting and gave a speech. Mr. Huang said, “After the official resumption of work on February 11, Aolan do their best efforts to ensure the export orders to ship out on time, by overcoming the difficulties of unavailable staff in time, and the supply chain and logistics are not smooth. So far, the return rate of employees has reached 98%, and the production capacity has returned to about 90%. After the epidemic spread globally, there are some influences on the delivery of export orders, due to the European countries like Italy, Spain etc. And Asian countries such as Japan etc. are AOLAN’s main market. However, I believe that with the strong support of the government, we will definitely overcome all difficulties and ensure the completion of the annual export task. '

After the representative of the enterprise spoke, Zhang Kejian, a member of the Party Group of Ministry, and a vice minister made a speech. Minister Zhang emphasized the points as below. Firstly, the crisis should be turned into an opportunity by resuming work and production as soon as possible. Government departments must strengthen their confidence and take an active role in addressing problems, solving issues, and proposing countermeasures. Small and medium-sized enterprises should innovate their business models and speed up transformation, and find ways to reduce losses, find an outlet, and strive to resume work and finish production. Second, we must do a good job in the implementation of favorable enterprise policies.

The departments of small and medium-sized enterprises at all levels shall implement policies such as social security and taxation,in particular, accelerate the implementation of the financial support for small and medium-sized enterprises to resume work and resume production, and promote the implementation of the “Special Action for Digital Enabling of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises”. Third, we must firmly follow the path of developing the 'profession, precision, characteristics and innovation combined enterprises.' Profession, precision, characteristics and innovation combined SMEs should continue to play an important supporting role in improving shortcomings and strengthening strong chains, and demonstrations will lead SMEs to take the 'professional, precise, characteristic and innovated' development path.