"Logistics Man" Under The Epidemic Situation: Food, Living And Delivery Station To Ensure Efficient Distribution

        On June 10, Guangzhou epidemic prevention and control headquarters issued No. 19 circular, announcing 144 key epidemic prevention and control areas and risk periods. Fangcun village, Liwan District, is still under control. After the streets where the hongmianyuan delivery station of China Post was transferred to the sealed management area, Hou Yangyang, the station master, firmly stayed at the delivery station.

"Who will stay if I don't stay at this time?" On June 11, 21st century economic reporter dialed Hou Yangyang to exchange the latest information on Logistics treatment at the front line of the epidemic. Hou Yangyang said that because of the 23 original colleagues in the epidemic delivery station, 17 of them could not come back to work due to the closed home and other reasons. Only six employees were left. In order to meet the express needs of residents in this area, the six people have been eating and living in the delivery station recently, Work late into the night every day.

The 21st century economic reporter learned that due to the need of epidemic prevention and control, the traffic in many places in Guangzhou was controlled, and the business of major logistics enterprises was interrupted for a time, and there was a large backlog of parcels in express outlets. In recent days, Guangzhou municipal government is gradually liberalizing control to ensure the orderly and smooth development of logistics distribution.

However, in order to limit the flow of personnel, the arrival of express delivery staff is lagging behind, which is just conducive to the popularity of unmanned logistics equipment such as unmanned vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles. According to Liang Wenhui, general assistant of Guangzhou Shunfeng public affairs department, Shunfeng group has sent the first batch of UAV team and UAV equipment to Guangzhou, flying more than 200 sorties and Airdropping more than 100 cargo in recent three days. Wu Qian, the person in charge of Guangzhou Fangcun business station of Jingdong Logistics, also told reporters that from April 4, Jingdong Logistics put in two intelligent delivery delivery vehicles. Through unmanned technical services, anti epidemic and supply guarantee, unmanned vehicles give priority to meet the material support and delivery needs of 14 communities in Guanggang new town of Liwan District.

In the closed management area, unmanned equipment plays an important role- People's vision

The workload is better than "double 11"

Guangzhou is constantly upgrading its epidemic prevention and control measures. At the same time, people go out less and shop more online. In addition to daily necessities, medicines and online course materials, smooth logistics support is also needed. But the outbreak of the epidemic hit logistics people by surprise.

On June 3, Guangzhou further upgraded control measures according to the situation of epidemic prevention and control, and implemented closed management on Fangcun area of Liwan District. The hongmianyuan delivery station of China Post was also under control. Hou Yangyang suddenly felt the impact of the epidemic, and hongmianyuan delivery station almost closed down.

Because there were 23 employees in the delivery station, but 17 couldn't come back to work because of the closed home. The remaining 6 people had to shoulder the workload of 23 people. Because of the emergency of the epidemic, the express parcels piled up into mountains at the delivery stations. In the first few days, more than 10000 parcels had to be delivered every day. However, there were only six employees in hongmianyuan station, each of whom had to send more than 2000 packages a day, which was more than twice the workload of the "double 11" campaign. So Hou Yang Yang led his staff to merge the original 17 delivery sections into 4 by compressing the delivery sections, and ensured the delivery of mails by setting up temporary mail delivery points for contactless delivery. Six people eat and live in the delivery station every day. The conditions are very poor. However, these employees do not complain. They are even glad that they have saved the time on the way to work and can squeeze out more time to deal with mail. They get up more than 5 o'clock every day and work till 11:12 p.m. and have a good time.

Xiao Song, a staff member of Guangzhou Post's epidemic prevention and control office, told reporters that as of June 8, 154 villages and 380 commercial and residential communities in the city were under closed control, 177 front-line investment soliciting personnel and investment soliciting internal affairs could not be on duty, 68 investment soliciting departments in the city were affected, and 11 outlets were suspended from business. Hongmianyuan delivery station is only the epitome of the city's 68 bidding departments.

Hou Yangyang told reporters that the staff who stayed to work were given two injections of new crown vaccine, and they must wear medical masks and carry a bottle of disinfection spray to clean and disinfect the hands touching the mail at any time. When the package is delivered, it will also be sprayed with alcohol for disinfection, so as to put an end to virus infection. He noted that the local residents' awareness of epidemic prevention and control has been improved recently. Many of the purchased materials include protective clothing, masks, goggles and other protective materials, as well as medicines and online course materials“ Now the number of packages per day has dropped to more than 9000. " Hou Yang Yang said.

Song Xiaosong said that at present, the Guangzhou municipal government has arranged ten express enterprises to return to the control area to guarantee logistics services. The company also carries out nucleic acid detection for all employees, and strengthens the control of all sites, mail processing centers and office places in the city. Employees, foreign personnel and vehicles are required to correctly wear masks, measure body temperature, and strictly check health certificates. At the same time, the vaccination of employees was strengthened to protect their safety. As of June 8, the vaccination rate of employees in the whole company exceeded 75%. The monitoring center of Guangzhou Post Branch monitors and inspects the implementation of epidemic prevention work in 156 business outlets and 154 investment soliciting stations in Guangzhou.

The 21st century economic report learned from express companies such as Zhongtong, Yuantong, Shentong and Yunda that they were cooperating with the Guangzhou municipal government's epidemic control measures, and many outlets in the closed areas were not dispatched as usual. Guo Pengcheng, the public relations director of Yunda, said that the staff of Yunda South China hub center strictly follow the epidemic prevention work plan, measure the temperature of employees every day, disinfect the office environment, staff dormitory, vehicles and express mail in and out of the factory, so as to ensure the safety and normal operation of the company.

On June 9, the first batch of 1204 express young brothers urgently tested nucleic acid and injected vaccine. Perhaps, the enclosed area is expected to be socialized in express delivery.

Unmanned devices play a key role

However, at present, the delivery of the last kilometer and 100m is still a problem. When people are trapped by the epidemic, it is an opportunity for unmanned equipment to play a role.

Recently, two red cute cars appear on the streets of Liwan District from time to time, with a large number of express packages shuttling through Fengguan district and Fangcun Sales Department of Jingdong Logistics. Wu Qian told reporters that this is the Jingdong Logistics Intelligent express vehicle transferred from the group to serve the epidemic resistance and supply protection in Guangzhou. It can complete the functions of autonomous driving, intelligent obstacle avoidance, traffic light recognition and intelligent pickup without manual intervention. Kong Qi, chief scientist of Jingdong Logistics automatic driving, said that the first batch of intelligent express vehicles will give priority to meet the material support and delivery needs of 14 communities in Guanggang new town of Liwan District. At present, the transportation route planning and technical debugging have been carried out with corresponding distribution stations.

It is understood that this is the third time that Jingdong Logistics Intelligent express vehicle has gone to the front line of epidemic prevention after Wuhan and Shijiazhuang. After the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan at the beginning of 2020, relying on L4 level automatic driving technology and Beidou satellite positioning system, Jingdong Logistics quickly put intelligent express vehicles into use in Wuhan, making contactless distribution a major security guarantee during the epidemic period. It is reported that at that time, the total mileage of intelligent express vehicles in Wuhan was more than 6800 kilometers, and about 13000 packages were transported. After the outbreak of the epidemic in Shijiazhuang at the beginning of 2021, Jingdong Logistics technical personnel also went to the local area for the first time, allowing intelligent express vehicles to take the lead in the streets, and using unmanned technology to provide guarantee for express delivery and material distribution. Therefore, this time in Guangzhou street use of intelligent express vehicles, has a wealth of anti epidemic experience.

Wu Qian said that intelligent express vehicles mainly share the demand of small parcel distribution at the site. The unmanned vehicles start from the business department of Fangcun, Liwan, Guangzhou, Jingdong Logistics, and send them to the residential area where the consumers live according to the route collected in advance. After receiving the receiving information, consumers can go downstairs to pick up the pieces. Under the condition of smooth delivery, it only takes 10 minutes for the intelligent delivery express vehicle to go back and forth, Each unmanned distribution vehicle can complete 300 orders of goods per day, and the contact between personnel and interpersonal communication can be reduced as much as possible through the unmanned vehicle. It is reported that next, according to the epidemic prevention needs, Jingdong will also dispatch more unmanned distribution vehicles to ensure the distribution of community materials.

In addition to running on the road, to solve the express package door-to-door, there are air solutions. Liang Wenhui told reporters that Shunfeng Group paid close attention to the dynamics of epidemic prevention and control in Guangzhou, understood the material delivery demand in the prevention and control area, combined with the successful experience of Shunfeng UAV project in the past, especially the case of Wuhan UAV anti epidemic support, analyzed that it could be solved by UAV airdrop. Therefore, on June 6, Shunfeng group sent UAV team (the first batch) and UAV equipment to Guangzhou to start on-site investigation, and officially launched UAV airdrop control zone materials on June 8. It is reported that the first batch of UAV team consists of 5 people and 8 UAVs, with a capacity of 2 tons and 200 sorties per day.

Liang Wenhui disclosed that on June 8, a UAV was launched, flying 10 sorties, Airdropping 4 cargo, weighing 33 kg, all of which were drugs. On June 9, SF launched four aircraft, flying 160 sorties, Airdropping 80 single cargo, weighing 483kg. First of all, the air drop of medicines, food and other scarce livelihood materials was met. On the 9th, drugs, milk powder, diapers, instant noodles and other materials were airdropped to CHONGKOU street and BAIHEDONG street. On June 10, three aircraft were launched and 46 sorties were flown, with 23 single cargo and 118 kg weight. The investment area is in Dongyi street and CHONGKOU street, all of which are emergency supplies such as medicine, maternal and infant supplies.

Liang Wenhui said that the above air dropped materials were all donated by the relevant government departments. After the airdrop, volunteers in the closed area were received, transported and delivered by volunteers in the closed area, while the sealed off area was received and transferred to the designated points in the street by Shunfeng collectors and dispatchers.