masks

On March 15, BYD and 6 companies including China Resources Vanguard, NUS Pharmacy, Neptune, North-South Medicine, Dingdang Express, and China United Pharmacy reached an agreement to put 15 million masks on the Shenzhen market.

Jack Ma, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder, has joined Twitter with his first tweet being about mask donation to the U.S.

Sinopec, one of the three biggest oil and gas companies in China, said today that the production capacity of self-produced and assisted production of masks both exceeded one million per day. Currently, they have produced 34.885 million masks.

In some districts of Beijing's Fengtai District, the vending machine "sell" masks at the vending machine are priced at 3.5 yuan each. Such machines will be retrofitted and used in 10 communities in Fengtai and Haidian, and will gradually cover other communities, according to the Beijing News.

Since the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia, masks have become one of the most in short supply of protective materials. In addition, disinfectants, protective clothing, etc. have also been in short supply across the country.

With the outbreak of new coronavirus pneumonia in China, masks have become more important and sales have grown. Recently, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) approved the patent for "smart masks" submitted by Xiaomi.

The recent shortage of masks due to the Wuhan pneumonia outbreak in China has caused widespread concern. It is worth noting that China is the world's largest mask manufacturer and exporter, with an annual output of about 50% of the world. Why is there still not enough reserves?

At noon today, JD.com, one of China's major e-commerce platforms, said that from January 19 to 22, the platform has sold more than 126 million masks, 310,000 bottles of disinfectant , and 1 million bottles of hand sanitizer.