"Fighting the epidemic is a national action. Where there is an epidemic, there is a main battlefield. " While the novel coronavirus (20 19-nCoV) was raging, Li Shufu, chairman of Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd., voiced, "Let's work together and come on, China! All Geely people are always paying attention to the development of the epidemic. We are willing to unite with the people of the whole country, help each other in the same boat, overcome the difficulties together, and resolutely win this hard battle without smoke but with life and death. "
At present, Geely Holding Group regards epidemic prevention and control as its current top priority. Facing the current severe epidemic prevention situation, Geely Holding Group, according to the requirements of extending the Spring Festival holiday in the State Council and the relevant requirements of local governments, combined with the actual operation situation of the Group, implemented the mechanism of employees returning to work in batches, completed various epidemic prevention measures such as disinfection in various regions, and put the health and safety of employees in the first place.
At the same time, Geely Automobile, which has been actively fulfilling its corporate social responsibility for a long time, has also taken the lead in this battle against the epidemic.
Recently, Geely Holding Group and Li Shufu Public Welfare Foundation set up a special fund of 200 million yuan to support the prevention and control of new pneumonia in Hubei, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Henan provinces. In addition, Geely Holding will further expand the fund scale of the special fund according to the needs of the epidemic.
It is reported that the special fund will be used to purchase urgently needed emergency materials such as masks, disinfectants, goggles and ventilators according to the actual needs of areas with serious epidemics in China; Support the construction of temporary hospitals in epidemic areas; Support institutions such as China Center for Disease Control and Prevention to develop vaccines and cures for new viruses such as novel coronavirus, and to popularize public health and safety information for a longer period of time.
Not only that, Geely Holding Group and its brands, such as Geely, Link, Volvo, Polaris, Geometry, Lotus and long-distance commercial vehicles, have taken action and made efforts within their power to fight the epidemic.
For example, Geely Automobile donated 50 Cargill vehicles to the COVID-19 Prevention and Control Headquarters in Wuhan, the center of the epidemic, for the unified transportation and deployment of the local epidemic prevention and control departments. This multifunctional MPV with large domestic and commercial space will greatly improve the efficiency of personnel and materials mobilization in the front line of epidemic prevention.
At the same time, taking advantage of global operation, Geely Group raised funds, purchased urgently needed medical materials for epidemic prevention and control in Sweden, the hometown of Volvo car brand, and some European countries and regions, and provided support to areas with severe epidemic in China. At present, the first batch of 250,000 medical masks have been sent from Sweden to China.
In addition, Cao Cao Travel (Wuhan), a travel service platform under Geely Holding Group, has also set up an emergency prevention and control support team to provide free travel services for residents in various communities in Wuhan on the premise of drivers' self-protection. At the same time, Cao Cao's travel operation center and the special service dispatching team of the customer service department cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control vehicle dispatching 24 hours a day.
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