Help SMEs with emergency response. 

It is imperative to help SMEs to implement safety measures of epidemic prevention, participate in epidemic prevention training, and make emergency plans. A docking channel for protective material has been set up on the government service platforms to alleviate the shortage of anti-epidemic materials of SMEs.

Shanghai supplies more than 1 million masks to SMEs every day and helped more than 20,000 SMEs to purchase nearly 7 million masks (pads), and protective materials, such as disinfection materials and protective goggles. Guangdong Province allocated almost 8 million masks and other antiepidemic materials for SMEs to resume work.

Establish a "Health QR Code" for employees. 

It provides a reference for enterprises to quickly identify and deal with epidemic-related issues and reasonably arrange flexible employment methods. A QR code is generated through big data analysis and comparison. People with high, medium and low-risk levels are classified in three colors: red, yellow, and green. Currently, the “Health Code” in most parts of the country has already unified.

Innovate insurance products for safety in production.

The insurance products can effectively alleviate the worries of SMEs and reduce the risk of resuming work. On February 16th, Hainan Province launched “the Comprehensive Epidemic Prevention and Control Insurance” for their enterprises, which focuses on the companies’ losses, employee wages, and quarantine costs due to the government’s epidemic prevention and control requirements. On March 23rd, Shanghai launched “the Comprehensive Insurance for Resumption of Work and Production”. This kind of insurance product provides financial compensation for those who return to Shanghai to work and are concentratedly quarantined, diagnosed with new coronavirus, severely infected, or died of infection.

Encourage SMEs to engage in the production of epidemic prevention materials. 

For SMEs that are willing to shift to produce epidemic prevention materials with qualified production conditions, the production license would be granted on the spot, and the relevant documents can be completed later. In Lanzhou, Gansu Province, where technological innovation investments are made to expand the production of epidemic-resistant emergency supplies, equipment investment within 5 million yuan is subsidized by 30%, and those exceeding 5 million yuan are subsidized by 50%.