TEDA Cooperation Zone as Egypt's Model of Anti-Epidemic

TEDA Cooperation Zone as Egypt's Model of Anti-Epidemic
Source: Tianjin Daily

Reporter: Yue Fuyu

As of 14:31 on July 13, there are 53793 confirmed cases in Egypt, with a total of 82070 confirmed cases......

Every day, the dynamics of the epidemic in Egypt, Tianjin TEDA people are watching. Because there are their painstaking efforts, China's "Belt and Road Initiative" star project-China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone. There are 85 enterprises in the district with 4000 Chinese and Egyptian employees. At present, to be precise, at this moment, the "double battle" between epidemic prevention and control and production safety in the cooperation zone is still going on! Within six months, from the initial rejection of local doubts, to now become a model of Egypt's anti-epidemic, the Teda people fought another beautiful battle on the Red Sea coast thousands of miles away, and their epidemic prevention experience was vigorously promoted by the Ministry of Commerce to other overseas parks in China.

The impending crisis of public opinion has reversed.

The first half of the domestic outbreak, the second half of the foreign outbreak. The Central African Teda played the field full.

It is also because of the epidemic at home and abroad there is a time lag, in mid-February, when the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced the first confirmed case of new coronary pneumonia in the country, some local public opinion will be anxious to point the spearhead of the Chinese people-intensive TEDA cooperation zone, more radical rhetoric proposed to close the park.

Fortunately, at that time, the Teda people had taken the lead in the "race" against the development of the epidemic in Egypt:

At the beginning of this year, when the epidemic was raging in China, the Central African TEDA Party Branch, in accordance with the requirements of its superiors, immediately set up a leading group for the prevention and control of overseas epidemics, formulated plans, and implemented them at every level. The company's party branch comprehensively compared the political, economic and cultural differences between China and Egypt, and made a prediction that "the risk of epidemic prevention in the TEDA cooperation zone is higher", and immediately decided that the branch secretary Liu Aimin immediately rushed to the front to personally supervise the war.

At that time, the overseas epidemic was still a little bit unnoticed, and international flights were still able to go back and forth normally. After the first batch of Chinese team to assist Egypt arrived in the TEDA cooperation zone, they visited various enterprises every day, strictly checked the killing and temperature measurement, coordinated the epidemic prevention materials from all sides, and made every effort to promote the investment promotion and commercial warehousing business ...... All the work was carried out in a solid and meticulous manner, which reassured the enterprises in the zone and was highly recognized by the enterprises in the zone and the Chinese Embassy in Egypt.

Therefore, when the public opinion crisis appeared, the Egyptian managers of the TEDA Cooperation Zone came forward in unison. For more than ten years, these Egyptian employees have personally experienced the growth of the park. They have a deep understanding of TEDA's style and a high degree of trust in the TEDA team. They took the initiative to communicate with Egyptian government departments and media, successfully dispelled each other's concerns, and actively joined the epidemic prevention and control inspection team of Chinese personnel to guide Egyptian employees in the region to cooperate with epidemic prevention and control inspection.
"Are you afraid of being infected?" Ashour, an Egyptian employee, said with a smile, "No, my Chinese brothers have done a very good job in epidemic prevention, and I trust them. TEDA is the place where my dream began, and I will protect it with all my strength."

After the Egyptian Ministry of Health inspected the epidemic prevention measures in the TEDA Cooperation Zone, it gave open and transparent reports and full affirmation in the official media, and the major Egyptian media followed up. The impending public opinion crisis is thus reversed.

The front is sincere, the rear is warm-blooded.

In the video conference room of TEDA, a subsidiary of TEDA Holdings in Tianjin Binhai New Area, two wall clocks are hung, showing Beijing time and Cairo time respectively, reminding everyone in TEDA that there are still several comrades fighting on the Red Sea at this moment.

"Although we are in a foreign land, we are not alone," is often said in front and rear video conferences.

In the meantime, the Chinese Embassy in Egypt has always maintained close contact with the park, actively coordinated with the Egyptian government, and helped the TEDA cooperation zone solve a series of problems such as material procurement and medical and health security.

As the epidemic continues to spread outside the country, Egypt's local epidemic prevention supplies are in urgent need and there is a huge gap. Teda Holdings on the coast of Bohai Sea coordinated in many ways in the first place, allocated nearly 10,000 N95 and medical surgical masks, and transported them there urgently to ensure the safety of Chinese and Egyptian employees in epidemic prevention and inject strong spiritual motivation into them.

At present, China's domestic anti-epidemic resumption of production has achieved phased results, but the Egyptian epidemic in the cumulative number of confirmed cases of 80000 cases, declared to enter the "coexistence with the virus" and "group immunity" state. In the face of the new situation, the China-Africa TEDA Party Branch issued an initiative to all cadres and employees to form a commando team, hoping that the employees in Tianjin will be ready to go to the front at any time to replace their teammates who have been fighting for many days.

"Please put me on the front line" "I voluntarily sign up to go to Egypt" ...... A letter of petition was submitted. Among them, there are 20-year-old party members and young party members who have just joined the party. In times of crisis, few numbers, from the bottom of my heart, hit the floor.

The second and third teams of Central African TEDA to Egypt have been assembled on standby.

During the outbreak, the TEDA team in the bones of the fighting spirit, TEDA cooperation zone active and comprehensive epidemic prevention work, many intended customers see in the eye, respect in the heart. Hengtong, butterfly and other 6 projects have entered the area. The cooperative zone successfully sold 320000 square meters of land. In March, TEDA signed a second-hand car trade cooperation agreement with Egyptian used car dealers......

Double win! Liao Liqiang, Chinese ambassador to Egypt, praised the TEDA cooperation zone's flexible mode of cooperation and negotiation. China-Africa TEDA's experience in fighting the epidemic was summarized by the Ministry of Commerce and sent to other overseas parks for reference.

During the special period, TEDA people made a new chapter along the "the belt and road initiative.