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With the arrival of the Spring Festival, the boom of returning home is also on the rise, but the risk brought by the COVID-19 epidemic remains the same, and many state departments have made it clear that people from other places are advised to stay there for the Lunar New year. However, for enterprises in some low-risk areas, they can formulate special policies to return home for the holidays according to the needs and considerations of their own enterprises.

Recently, some netizens exposed a regulation on FAW Toyota's Spring Festival travel plan for 2021. The contents of the document show that all Chinese and Japanese cadres and employees, in order to ensure their health and respond to the national prevention and control work, explicitly stipulate that employees travel at rest and are prohibited from returning to other places to celebrate the Spring Festival in this city. It means that compared with the policy of some car companies to encourage employees to stay in the local New year through incentives, FAW Toyota has directly carried out a clear stillness.

At the same time, the travel plan also enumerates the epidemic situation in many high-risk, medium-risk and key areas in China, as well as the situation of employees of FAW-Toyota departments located in high -, medium-and low-risk areas. Statistics show that the total number of employees in medium / high-risk areas is 8246, low-risk areas 2869, local people a total of 9685, the total number of employees is 20800. Obviously, the proportion of employees in medium-and high-risk areas is relatively large, so FAW Toyota issued a company policy of banning all employees from traveling and returning to their hometown.

However, employees who have to travel under special circumstances can be examined and approved by the deputy general manager of the company, which shows that FAW Toyota has strictly implemented the national requirements for the control of the epidemic.

Judging from the current epidemic situation, advocating a ban on travel in medium-and high-risk areas and proposing to celebrate the Spring Festival on the spot is indeed a measure worth advocating, but compared with the previous "remember during the Spring Festival in 2021 about the ideal car Changshu, the reward notice for rewarding front-line employees to stay in China" is obviously very different. The notice will not only encourage employees by issuing bonus subsidies, meal subsidies and increasing holidays, but will also make employees more happy to celebrate the Spring Festival on the spot.

Also because FAW Toyota, as one of the larger traditional car companies in China, its employees are also much higher than the ideal cars of the new power car companies, with the increase in the number of employees, the corresponding costs will be more, further aggravating the pressure brought by the car companies under the epidemic.

Data show that FAW Toyota was founded in June 2000, headquartered in Tianjin, China, is a Sino-Japanese joint venture car enterprise. At present, it has three major production bases in China, namely, Tianjin, Changchun, Jilin, and Chengdu, Sichuan. It is precisely because Toyota has more factories in China that there will be greater potential risks caused by the reversal of the epidemic.

Due to the current Spring Festival tide return peak, it is also reasonable to carry out stronger measures to prevent and control the epidemic in medium-and high-risk areas. after all, the potential risk of secondary infection will bring certain pressure to enterprises. For example, the impact of Wuhan, the center of the epidemic, has brought unprecedented impact to the automobile market and supply chain in China and the world, resulting in a decline in sales and profits of many car companies, and it took half a year for them to show obvious signs of recovery.

Thanks to Toyota's strong market performance in China, FAW Toyota sold 800000 vehicles in 2020, up 9 per cent from a year earlier, with a market share of 4.3 per cent and a completion rate of 105 per cent compared with the annual target of 770000. FAW Toyota said that in 2020, sales revenue rose 7.4 per cent year-on-year and profits increased 2 per cent year-on-year, achieving a "double rise in quantity and profit". It got off to a good start again in January, selling 84000 new cars, up 9 per cent from a year earlier and occupying about 4.5 per cent of the market, with a marked increase.

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