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深圳报业集团主管、主办 • 深圳日报社出版 • Wednesday May 20, 2020 • Vol. 24 • No. 5206 • www.szdaily.com • Price: 1 yuan
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I 02 IDeputy calls for boosting industrial InternetChina’s digital economy is stepping into a new era supported by new infrastructure, with data as its key elements and industrial Internet as its advanced stage, said Pony Ma, a deputy to the National People’s Congress and chairman and CEO of Tencent
I 04 ITech brings political advisers closer to public Technology is playing a greater role this year in bringing the nation’s top political advisory body closer to the people, as China’s political advisers prepare to meet in Beijing for their annual session starting tomorrow
I 05 IUK announces plan for tariff cuts after BrexitThe U.K. set out its tariffs plan for global trade when it fully leaves the EU at the end of this year, cutting import duties on many products while protecting industries such as automotive and agriculture
I 06 ITrump threatens to freeze funding to WHO foreverU.S. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to permanently cut off the nation’s funding to the WHO if the body does not commit to what he called “substantive improvements within the next 30 days”
COVID-19 detection kits pro-duced by Shenzhen-based BGI Genomics have been included on the emergency use list by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The WHO added BGI Europe’s real-time fluores-cent RT-PCR kit to its list as the fifth global entrant to suggest more high-quality tests for WHO member states, Zhu Yanmei, executive direc-tor with BGI, said at a news conference organized by the Shenzhen Municipal Govern-ment yesterday.
BGI now produces 2 mil-lion detection kits every day and has received 20 million international orders from 160 countries and regions.
Additionally, BGI’s Huo-Yan (or Fire Eye) labs have been set up in the U.A.E., Brunei, Serbia, Saudi Arabia, Australia and the Philippines, increasing the test-ing capability of the countries, Australia for example, by three times.
About 20 more countries and regions are negotiating with BGI to set up 70 labs, accord-ing to Zhu.
Meanwhile, Shenzhen Mind-ray Biomedical Electronics Co. Ltd., which owns 40 subsidiar-ies around the world, has been busy with installations and tests of medical equipment like ventilators, and training in 50 hospitals, since the global COVID-19 outbreak.
“In Russia, Mindray has provided over 3,000 pieces of equipment including ven-tilators, monitoring and ultra-
sonic devices and intravenous injection pumps,” Wu Hao, vice president of Mindray, said at the conference.
“Since March, we have received orders from more than 100 countries. Italy purchased 10,000 devices and we worked day and night and completed delivery and installation within 15 days,” he said.
So far, the fi rm has exported 100,000 ventilators overseas.
Shenzhen-based carmaker BYD, which pivoted to mask-making after the coronavirus hit, has created the world’s largest mass-produced face mask plant, Li Wei, director of BYD’s president’s offi ce, said at the conference.
The company held 200 meet-ings in 100 days, worked out the mask design in three days, assembled necessary machines
in seven days, produced the fi rst batch of masks in 10 days and increased capacity to 5 million masks a day in 24 days.
The plant is now running at full capacity and is able to produce 50 million masks per day, more than double the total capacity of the whole industry in China before the outbreak.
The company has so far donated 10 million masks and is expected to export 1 billion masks in May.
“There is no challenge in pro-ducing masks. The challenge is big demands in such a pressing time. It is hard to purchase spare parts from suppliers during epidemic period, so BYD engineers produce 80-90 percent of the total 1,300 spare parts that a mask machine needs,” Li said.
Huang Xin works on his hair sculpture “A medic fighting COVID-19” in Beijing yesterday. Huang has invented a novel way to pay tribute to brave medical workers fighting the disease by making a sculpture with hair. In more than one month, he has collected 6.5 kilograms of hair cut from some medical workers who had helped combat the epidemic in Hubei Province for the sculpture, which will be 76 centimeters in height. China News Service
£ Hair sculpture in tribute to medics
BGI test kits added to WHO emergency use list
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