A few days ago, the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council in response to the novel coronavirus infection pneumonia epidemic issued the "Notice on Effectively Ensuring the Smooth Flow of Freight Logistics", which requires full efforts to ensure the smooth transportation of freight logistics, especially medical prevention and control materials, daily necessities, government reserve materials, postal couriers and other civilian biological resources and important production materials, and effectively maintain the normal production and living order of the people. The "Notice" makes it clear that the epidemic prevention and control measures that do not meet the requirements of this notice should be rectified immediately, and the responsibility of relevant localities, units and personnel should be seriously investigated in accordance with laws and regulations for those that seriously affect the smooth flow of freight goods and cause shortages or interruptions in material supply.
Transportation corridors
These can't be done!
- It is strictly forbidden to block or close highways, ordinary highways and waterway locks without authorization.
- It is forbidden to shut down highway service areas, port terminals, railway stations and aviation airports without authorization, or to stop the crew change of ships on international voyages without authorization.
- It is strictly forbidden to set up 2 (inclusive) or more epidemic prevention checkpoints in the same direction and on the same waterway in the same section of ordinary highways; it is strictly forbidden to set up epidemic prevention checkpoints on the main line and service area of the expressway; it is strictly forbidden to set up epidemic prevention checkpoints in the channel locks without authorization, and if it is really necessary to set up, it should be reported to the prefectural and municipal joint prevention and control mechanism (leading group, command headquarters) for approval.
These are the things to do!
- If it is really necessary to shut down or stop due to the occurrence of confirmed cases or close contacts, it shall be reported to the provincial joint prevention and control mechanism (leading group, command headquarters) for approval before implementation; if the closure of an air airport involves the operation of inter-provincial flights or international flights, it shall be reported to the relevant departments of the State Council or the State Council for examination and approval in accordance with regulations.
- It is necessary to announce the shutdown information to the public in advance, and actively take measures to restore it as soon as possible after the shutdown.
- During the shutdown of the expressway service area, basic public service functions such as refueling should continue to be retained.
- It is necessary to scientifically and reasonably set up epidemic prevention checkpoints and timely report the setting situation, highway epidemic prevention checkpoints should be located in the square outside the toll station and outside the area, and where conditions permit, sufficient special passages and rest areas for trucks should be set up.
Epidemic prevention and control measures
These are the things to do!
- Where it is necessary to implement a global closed management of prefecture-level cities and municipal districts and counties due to the epidemic situation, the epidemic prevention and control measures shall be approved and announced by the prefectural and municipal joint prevention and control mechanism (leading group, command headquarters); where the prefecture-level and municipal-level cities and above implement the global closed management, the epidemic prevention and control measures shall be approved and announced by the provincial-level joint prevention and control mechanism (leading group, command).
- Provincial-level joint prevention and control mechanisms (leading groups, command headquarters) should promptly summarize the information on epidemic prevention and control in various cities, upload it to the "Local Prevention and Control Policies" column of the State Council client Mini Program in a timely manner, and widely publicize it through the "12345" hotline, government websites, official Weibo WeChat, etc.
- Encourage timely sharing and updating of traffic control information with navigation map platforms.
These can't be done!
- All regions should accurately implement traffic management according to the actual itinerary of freight vehicles and drivers and passengers, whether they are involved in the epidemic, etc. The passage of freight vehicles and drivers and passengers shall not be arbitrarily restricted, the place of vehicle registration and household registration shall not be used as restrictive conditions for passage, and the passage and docking of vehicles and ships shall not be restricted simply on the grounds that the green belt number of the communication itinerary card of the truck driver and crew member shall not be restricted.
- For truck drivers with green belts * numbers on the communication itinerary card, they need to actively report the license plate number, planned arrival time, driver and passenger name, ID card number, mobile phone number and other information to the receiving and shipping units of the destination 24 hours before the vehicle arrives at the destination, and the receiving and dispatching units shall report to the local community (township) and push the details of local epidemic prevention and control measures to the truck driver; when the truck drives to the epidemic prevention checkpoint such as the entrance and exit of the destination highway, If the temperature detection of the driver and passenger is normal and the negative nucleic acid test certificate, pass, health code, and communication itinerary card ("two certificates and two codes") within 48 hours meet the requirements, they should be released in a timely manner, and the epidemic prevention checkpoint can be closed-loop management and point-to-point transportation can be implemented for epidemic prevention checkpoints to the destination, and the local community (township) can also be sent by the receiving and shipping unit or the local community (township) to guide the truck to the destination, return immediately after loading and unloading, and strictly implement the epidemic prevention and control measures such as health monitoring and nucleic acid detection; if they do not leave in a short period of time, the local epidemic prevention and control requirements should be strictly implemented.
Emergency supplies transit
These are the things to do!
- Areas with serious epidemics should rely on surrounding logistics parks (hub stations, express delivery parks), highway service areas, etc., to accelerate the establishment of material transfer stations, connection points or distribution sites, and timely announce them to the public; for those that need to be established across provinces, neighboring provinces should give support.
- In principle, the material transfer site should be set up in a low-risk area, implement closed-loop management, and ensure that vehicles are strictly disinfected, personnel do not contact, and operations do not intersect.
- For the truck drivers and passengers entering and leaving the material transit stations in the closed city, under the condition of strictly implementing closed-loop management measures and negative nucleic acid testing within 24 hours, the "white list" management mode of the communication itinerary card is implemented, and after the joint prevention and control mechanism (leading group and command headquarters) at or above the prefectural and municipal level is reviewed and confirmed, the communication itinerary information in the corresponding period is not recorded, and the epidemic prevention and control measures such as health monitoring and nucleic acid detection can be strictly implemented after returning, and in principle, isolation is not required.
Key supplies and postal couriers
These are the things to do!
Key materials——
- The provincial-level joint prevention and control mechanism (leading group, command headquarters) of the province where the epidemic-related areas (the county-level administrative region where the medium- and high-risk areas are located) should establish and improve the key material transport vehicle permit system in accordance with the local epidemic prevention and control situation and the transportation needs of key materials, and the Ministry of Transport should work with relevant departments to guide all localities to achieve a unified format and national mutual recognition; it is necessary to smooth the handling channels, clarify the conditions, procedures, scope, channels and timeliness of handling, and implement online immediate access to ensure convenient handling.
- Port enterprises in the sealing and control area shall arrange for operators to be stationed in the port in advance and implement closed management. For domestic trade ships from epidemic-related areas, non-essential disembarkation and non-non-boarding of ships are implemented, and non-contact operations are implemented to ensure normal port operations. For the collection and transportation of freight vehicles at ports, railway stations and aviation airports in epidemic-related areas, all regions should implement closed-loop management and point-to-point transportation of the whole chain of field area, highway passage and destination to ensure the smooth flow of collection and transportation such as port terminals. It is necessary to give full play to the comparative advantages of different modes of transportation and make full use of railways and waterways to transport bulk materials.
Postal Courier——
- It is necessary to take postal and express delivery as the focus of people's livelihood, effectively ensure the passage of postal and express delivery vehicles; guide e-commerce platforms and express delivery enterprises to improve the level of accurate prevention and control of work sites; and increase contactless delivery facilities in areas with conditions to prevent the backlog of mail express mail.
Employee service guarantee, industry stability
These are the things to do!
- All regions should do a good job in nucleic acid testing services for employees, in principle, the epidemic prevention checkpoints should set up sufficient nucleic acid testing points nearby, and set up nucleic acid testing points encrypted in the highway service area with large traffic.
- Encourage areas with the capacity to provide free nucleic acid testing services for truck drivers, crew members and other transportation industry practitioners.
- It is necessary to provide basic life services such as catering and toilets for truck drivers and crew members stranded in closed areas, epidemic prevention checkpoints, highway service areas and other places due to the epidemic, and ensure that various service measures are implemented in a timely and effective manner.
- Epidemic-related areas should study and formulate measures to ensure the induction of railway, port, airport, shipping and other operators, and provide necessary guarantees for their commuting.
- All localities and departments should fully implement policies such as exempting small-scale taxpayers from value-added tax, implementing tax rebates, and deferring the payment of pension, unemployment, and work-related injury insurance premiums.
- For truck drivers and couriers who encounter sudden, urgent, or temporary basic living difficulties, effective measures should be taken in a timely manner to help solve problems and tide over difficulties.
It is necessary to coordinate epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, and immediately rectify the epidemic prevention and control measures that do not meet the requirements of this notice. The relevant departments of the State Council should increase the intensity of supervision and inspection, increase the number of epidemic prevention and control measures layer by layer, simply implement the "one-size-fits-all" persuasion to return, set up epidemic prevention checkpoints in violation of regulations, and block transportation channels without authorization, and urge relevant parties to speed up rectification and reform through circulars, interviews, and other means; for those that seriously affect the smooth flow of freight goods and cause shortages or interruptions in material supply, they must seriously investigate the responsibility of relevant localities, units, and personnel in accordance with laws and regulations.
Source | Chinese government website