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New crown pneumonia│Exhibition production engineering industry half-year zero-income employees expect 50% of the company to close

2020-07-21T00:21:17.819Z


Under the new crown epidemic, the exhibition industry has been hit hard, causing production engineers to "work out of work" and zero income for half a year. The "Convention and Exhibition Industry Funding Scheme" under the Government's Anti-epidemic Fund allocated 1.02 billion yuan to subsidize the exhibition industry, but the funds are only for exhibitors to participate in the exhibition venue rent and expenses, and exhibition production engineers are not benefited. Chen Qien, representative of the exhibition production engineering industry, pointed out that if there is no government support, it is estimated that 50% of exhibition production engineering companies will be closed, and about 5,000 people will be unemployed, affecting the livelihoods of thousands of families. Weng Weiguo, a member of the Exhibition Production Engineering Staff Concern Group, will seek the assistance of Huang Dingguang, Member of the Legislative Council of the Import and Export Sector, and set up an "Exhibition Production Engineering Staff Concern Group" with more than 60 companies to seek government support in the third round of anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic funds. Overcome difficulties.


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Written by: Huang Yingjin

2020-07-20 19:04

Last update date: 2020-07-20 19:04

Under the new crown epidemic, the exhibition industry has been hit hard, causing production engineers to "work out of work" and zero income for half a year. The "Convention and Exhibition Industry Funding Scheme" under the Government's Anti-epidemic Fund allocated 1.02 billion yuan to subsidize the exhibition industry, but the funds are only for exhibitors to participate in the exhibition venue rent and expenses, and exhibition production engineers are not benefited.

Chen Qien, representative of the exhibition production engineering industry, pointed out that if there is no government support, it is estimated that 50% of exhibition production engineering companies will be closed, and about 5,000 people will be unemployed, affecting the livelihoods of thousands of families.

Weng Weiguo, a member of the Exhibition Production Engineering Staff Concern Group, will seek the assistance of Huang Dingguang, Member of the Legislative Council of the Import and Export Sector, and set up an "Exhibition Production Engineering Staff Concern Group" with more than 60 companies to seek government support in the third round of anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic funds. Overcome difficulties.

The half-year zero-income book fair for production engineers stopped and lost the only opportunity to start

The "Convention and Exhibition Industry Funding Scheme" under the Government's Anti-epidemic Fund allocated 1.02 billion yuan to subsidize the exhibition industry, but the funds are only for exhibitors to participate in the exhibition venue rent and expenses. The exhibition production engineers responsible for setting up exhibition booths did not benefit. Under the new crown epidemic, the exhibition industry has been hit hard, and the production engineers have been "workless" for six months and have zero income. The third wave of epidemics broke out in the port of Japan, the book fair was suspended, and many exhibition activities were postponed or cancelled. A group of exhibition production engineers lost their only chance to start work in six months.

Weng Weiguo (right), a member of the attention group of the exhibition production engineering staff, described, "I haven't seen a terrible situation in the past 20 years. Even if SARS has only been closed for 3 months, the situation is several times worse than SARS." (Photo by Huang Yingjin)

Practitioners: The situation is several times worse than that of SARS. 50% of the company will close without support

Weng Weiguo, a member of the attention group of the exhibition production engineering staff, described, “I have not seen a terrible situation in the past 20 years. Even SARS has only been closed for 3 months, which is several times worse than SARS.” However, since February this year, No exhibitions were held during the epidemic, and industry personnel did not receive any jobs. Employers could only rely on the government's "employment protection" subsidies to barely pay employees' salaries. There were even "experts borrowing millions of dollars from banks to maintain operations." Few employees have no choice but to switch jobs and become cleaners and construction workers.

Weng Weiguo also pointed out that most of the materials related to the book fair have been prepared and the specific losses have not yet been determined. However, he likened that "it can be opened for 10 days, but now it can only be opened for 3 days." The income is far less than expected. The overall income of the exhibition production engineering industry has fallen by 95% compared to the same period last year. They have been "over 6 months". I thought the book fair would bring them a glimmer of light. However, the recent repetition of the epidemic has left a group of experts "in despair again" Dilemma".

Will seek assistance from Legislative Council Member Huang Dingguang

Chen Qien, representative of the exhibition production engineering industry, said that they have reached a desperate situation. "If the government does not help, it is estimated that 50% of the companies will quickly close down, and about 5,000 people will be unemployed, affecting the livelihoods of thousands of families." Weng Weiguo will seek legislation in the import and export sector. Conference member Huang Dingguang assisted in the establishment of the "Exhibition Production Engineering Staff Relief Concern Group" with more than 60 companies to strive for the government's third round of anti-epidemic and anti-epidemic funds to support the industry to tide over the difficulties.

Chen Qien (left), representative of the exhibition production engineering industry, said that they have reached a desperate situation. "If the government does not save it, it is estimated that 50% of the companies will close their business soon, and about 5,000 people will be unemployed, affecting the livelihoods of thousands of families." (Photo by Huang Yingjin)

Weng Weiguo sought the assistance of Huang Dingguang, a member of the Legislative Council of the import and export sector, and worked with more than 60 companies to establish an "Exhibition Production Engineers Relief Concern Group" in order to win the government's third round of anti-epidemic funds to support the industry to tide over the difficulties. (Photo by Huang Yingjin)

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