Chapter 499: March

The time has entered the third month of the Gregorian calendar.

The pandemic hasn't been resolved, but it's not as bad as it was at the beginning.

The shortage of supplies has improved dramatically, at least until now, there will be no lack of protective equipment for hospitals and frontline workers.

There are still many factories that have not reopened, but those that produce medical supplies have been given special care and priority has been given to reopen.

Not only did we restore the production capacity of those factories, but we also urgently built a large number of related production lines.

No one knows how long the epidemic will last, and it is not known whether the new production lines will be able to make money.

As soon as the epidemic ended, many production lines had to be shut down.

Waste is inevitable.

But in this case, no matter how wasteful, you have to invest in construction.

It's not a good thing that medical supplies are controlled by people.

With a population of 1.4 billion in China, something is really going to happen, there are too many things needed, and no country can afford to supply them.

Earlier, the Chinese people who were overseas had almost bought all kinds of epidemic prevention materials and sent them back in a steady stream.

Some are donated, some are sent to their relatives, and some are sold at a high price in the circle of friends.

Those materials also objectively alleviated the problem of lack of protective materials for front-line personnel.

However, it can only be alleviated, not completely solved.

This epidemic is so serious that all provinces and cities across the country are fully armed, and the medical system is almost about to be broken.

Without the large-scale construction of medical supply production lines in various places, there is no way to truly solve the problem of lack of medical supplies.

Entering March, masks are still in short supply.

It's just not as serious as it used to be.

There is no shortage of masks for front-line workers, and some factory employees have also given priority to masks and have begun to slowly resume production.

The epidemic has not yet been resolved, but at least there is a glimmer of hope.

Start work, that is the greatest hope.

Since the beginning of March, a number of new mask production lines have been put into operation, and Gu Mu's new production line has also started, working overtime every day to produce, and the masks that can be produced in one day exceed Fang Hao's Haoqi mask factory.

However, his factory is not a new leader in the industry.

The new leader in the industry is a company known for producing electric vehicles, and that company invested heavily in the mask production industry soon after the pandemic.

Then, the production capacity reached 15 million masks in one day.

Before the outbreak of the epidemic, the production capacity of all masks in the country was 20 million a day.

Now the masks produced by this company are almost three-quarters of the previous national production capacity.

The investment is huge, and the production capacity is very high, but once the epidemic is over, there will be no place to sell those masks, and the production line will be dismantled.

Otherwise, the more you produce, the more you lose.

It's a big gamble, a big gamble that looks like it's going to cost you nothing.

There are quite a few companies that make this kind of big gamble.

It is precisely because of their determination and speed of response that they can solve the problem of lack of medical supplies in such a short time.

Entering March, according to the estimates of relevant departments, the national mask production capacity is expected to reach more than 100 million per day.

It's nothing short of a miracle. Everybody reads

It is also such enterprises that support the successive opening of factories in various places.

If there were no masks, the factory would not be allowed to work.

Life safety is more important than the economy.

A confirmed patient can infect a city.

The epidemic in Jiangcheng is still very serious, with a lot of deaths every day and a lot of new confirmed cases every day.

The city was still under lockdown.

But the curve is starting to fall, and things are slowly getting better.

By March, the problem of masks for the medical system and front-line epidemic prevention personnel had been resolved, and Haoqi Mask Factory had stopped donating masks.

Logistics have also been slowly lifted, and their online store has restarted sales.

The price is a little higher than the price before the epidemic, because the price of raw materials for production has already increased, and the price increase is relatively large, which is an exponential increase.

If the cost increases, their prices will definitely increase, and a mask will not make a penny, if the price is not raised, it will be a loss.

It's not the same thing as a free donation for more than a month, it's just an accident.

The sales price is a long-term thing, and if there is a long-term loss, no manufacturer can afford it.

However, the price increase is very small, and after raising the price, their profit from each mask is still only about a penny.

Among similar products, their prices are still the lowest.

They have also made explanations for such price increases, and such explanations have also been recognized by consumers.

Now it's just that there is no shortage of masks for front-line personnel, and the people are still quite short, and the price of masks is not cheap, they all cost more than a dollar, and it is not easy to buy.

Haoqi Mask Factory re-sells online, and there are restrictions on purchase, one person can only buy one pack, that is, 50 masks, and the price is only more than three cents.

The brand of this mask has been launched, and the price is so affordable, of course, it has attracted a large number of consumers.

Although there is a policy of limiting purchases, the daily production capacity still cannot keep up with the demand for purchases.

β€”β€”Fang Hao's free donation of masks during the epidemic made the best advertisement for this mask brand.

What's more, the current price is the lowest on the whole network.

That's not just a little lower, it's more than half lower than similar products.

The quality is guaranteed, and the price is only one-third to one-quarter of similar products, so consumers will of course choose this brand first.

From a business point of view, Fang Hao's doing this is obviously a failure and does not conform to business rules.

But in fact, he did so, and the profit he brought far exceeded the profit he brought by raising the mask to the market price.

Masks are such a thing, from the beginning he didn't invest to make money.

At that time, I just wanted to pat myself on the back and solve the local employment problem.

After the epidemic, to make such a choice, that is, to brush up on your prestige and personality.

More than a month of donations, overtime production, brought him economic losses of tens of millions.

But elsewhere, the profits brought to him reached hundreds of millions.

With such a high profit, of course he can't look down on the little profit brought by the sale of masks.

Now selling online, it's okay not to lose money, it's not necessary to make a lot of money, it will ruin your image.

The profits brought to him by his personal image far exceeded the profits brought by selling masks.