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Written by: Kuang Xiaobin
2020-05-31 11:35
Last update date: 2020-05-31 11:35The government has launched two rounds of "Epidemic and Anti-epidemic Fund" earlier, providing a total of more than 5.5 billion yuan to support the construction industry. The Secretary for Development, Huang Weilun, said in his blog today (31st) that as of May 29, the two rounds of "Epidemic and Anti-epidemic Fund" had distributed more than 2.1 billion yuan in subsidies to about 240,000 construction workers; together with the first round The accumulated subsidies issued by the construction industry totaled more than 2.4 billion yuan.
According to the Development Bureau, the contractor implemented a number of anti-epidemic measures on the construction site, including measuring the temperature of employees entering and leaving the site, strengthening the clean-up of the site and the site office, and posting the anti-epidemic posters of the Department of Health. (Development Bureau)
Huang Weilun said that during the extraordinary period of the past few months, the government and the construction industry have been very united. He quoted the representative of the project contractor as saying that the company used the "Epidemic Prevention and Anti-epidemic Fund" subsidies to buy masks, hand rubs, disinfection items, etc., which were immediately dispatched to employees for use, and strengthened the cleaning and disinfection of site areas and site offices.
The contractor's representative said that in the early stage of the epidemic, contractors were concerned that the shortage of workers and materials would delay the construction period. The government granted a maximum of six months of extension of the construction period to help alleviate the worries of enterprises.
The blog quoted Wei Yuehua, an engineer from the Civil Engineering and Development Department, as the frontline workers returning to Hong Kong from the mainland completed self-quarantine or mandatory quarantine, the site was restocked with equipment to upgrade the epidemic prevention package, and the mainland began to resume work and production, the supply of building materials gradually returned normal level.
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