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The epidemic situation of COVID-19 is changing every day, affecting the hearts of every Chinese. Today, Geely officially announced that it will work with the Li Shufu Public Welfare Foundation to set up a 200 million yuan special fund for the prevention and control of the new type of pneumonia, which will be used to support the prevention and control of the epidemic in Hubei, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Henan and other areas with serious new types of pneumonia. At the same time, Geely said it would further expand the size of the special fund in due course according to the needs of epidemic prevention and control.

It is understood that this fund is mainly used for the actual needs of serious epidemic areas across the country, including the purchase of urgently needed emergency supplies such as masks, disinfectants, goggles, ventilators, and so on. it will also provide necessary assistance to front-line personnel and support the research and development of vaccines and cures for new viruses such as novel coronavirus.

As essential items such as masks have become the most urgently needed materials for the current epidemic, Geely will make use of its own advantages to provide assistance. In addition to being the controlling shareholder of Volvo, the largest car company in northern Europe and Sweden, it has R & D systems in many parts of the world, including Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom, and has more than 400 overseas sales and service sites.

Therefore, Geely will cooperate with overseas subsidiaries to make full use of the efficient and convenient advantages of Geely's agencies around the world to raise and purchase urgently needed medical supplies for epidemic prevention and control in Sweden and other countries and regions to provide support to areas with severe epidemic in China. The first batch of 250000 medical masks have been sent to China from Sweden.

In addition, Geely brand of Geely Holdings Group will donate 50 MPV models Geely Jiaji to Wuhan COVID-19 Prevention and Control headquarters for unified transportation deployment of local epidemic prevention and control departments. And its travel service platform-Cao Cao Travel (Wuhan) has also set up an emergency prevention and control guarantee fleet, which will provide free travel services for residents of various communities in Wuhan on the premise that drivers can protect themselves. Cao Cao travel operation center and customer service department special dispatching team, will cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control vehicle dispatching 24 hours a day.

In order to speed up the control of the epidemic, Geely Motor will also adjust the working hours of its employees. Although it will affect the follow-up production plan to a certain extent, as the largest independent car company in China, before facing difficulties, it is undoubtedly a benchmark enterprise to respond to the national call and make a donation to the epidemic fund.

With the spread of the epidemic, the stock and supply of necessary materials are gradually decreasing. In order to ensure an adequate supply, a number of car companies and automobile enterprises have made donations and materials. Not only using multinational car companies such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, General Motors and Hyundai, joint ventures such as FAW and Guangzhou Automobile, as well as new forces such as Lulai and Nahan Automobile to build cars, but also not absent from the fund-raising. In addition, including a number of car companies actively respond to the national rescue vehicle orders, have been working overtime for the production of special vehicles.

It is understood that the above auto companies have made donation responses to the epidemic, and it is believed that more enterprises will join them in the later stage to jointly deal with the epidemic. For the current downward situation of the automobile industry, even if a number of automobile companies are at a profit loss, they still make corresponding support measures to cooperate with the epidemic prevention and control work.

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