In the fight against the new coronavirus,Chinese people show their great wisdom (智慧) during hard times.
Masks are very important to the doctors andnurses in the very hospitals. To increase the production (提升产量),over 3,000Chinese companies have changed their production lines (生产线) to make medicalequipment(设备). For example, a company that used to make clothes spent 55 hourschanging their production lines and is now able to make 1,200 protectivemedical suits(医疗防护服) every day. Several automakers in China have also turnedtheir production lines into mask-making lines. Guangzhou Automobile is now ableto make 1 million masks per day.
The idea of "sharing workers" hasbecome popular during theoutbreak.As most people are staying at home, many workers in restaurants, cinemas andshopping malls have no work and are not getting paid. At the same time, onlineorders of goods and medical equipmentgrow, leaving e-business platforms (平台) such asJD.comandFeshhemashorthanded(人手短缺).
As a result, many people have started tolook for part-time jobs. On Feb 10, over 1,800 workers started their newpart-time jobs as delivery (送货) workers with Freshhema, Xinhua reported.
In cities like Wuhan that have largenumbers of infected (被感染的) people, more hospital beds are needed. The quickestway is to build makeshift (临时的) hospitals. On Jan 23 and25, the governmentdecided to build Huoshenshan Hospital and Leishenshan Hospital in Wuhan. Morethan 4,000 workers worked 24/7 in two shifts (轮班) to finish building the twohospitals within less than 15 days. The hospitals have about 2,600 beds. Theamazing speed surprised many people around the world.