On February 20, Eve Group's project for production of medical protective clothing was put into operation, and is expected to manufacture 5,000 to 10,000 suits of protective clothing and 10,000 isolation gowns daily. 

Since the breakout of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Xia Hua, President of Eve Group, a well-known clothing enterprise in Beijing, raised 1.2 million yuan (US $170,806) worth of medical supplies to donate to Beijing, Wuhan, capital city of Central China's Hubei Province, and provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou. 

"We used our resources to look for protective clothing, masks and gloves, but they were hard to get," said Xia, adding that her company, as a clothing production enterprise, was soon designated for manufacturing protective garments. 

The company's production project was included into the capacity expansion program of the State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism of the COVID-19, and as a member of the medical supplies guarantee team of the program, the company was listed as a key enterprise for epidemic prevention. 

Eve Group effectively allocated its productive resources by an online intellectual manufacturing platform, and it took only 10 days to reconfigure its six production lines and set up sterile purification workshop so that every production step could be strictly carried out according to national standards. 

It also organized skilled and healthy workers to receive training in manufacturing protective clothing.  

In order to fulfill its transformation and reconstruction, the company purchased facilities and materials from upstream and downstream enterprises, which drove nearly 100 such enterprises to re-examine their operations and maintain stable production. 

(Source: China Women's News/Translated by Women of China)