City to ensure food supply during festival

A scene at the emergency vegetable repository in Kengzi Subdistrict in Pingshan District. DT News

Shenzhen is making efforts to ensure an abundant supply of food for the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, during which people are encouraged to stay put in the cities they work to prevent spread of the novel coronavirus.

Hundreds of tons of fresh vegetables from Yunnan, Shandong and Hainan provinces and other cities of Guangdong Province have arrived in Shenzhen and are stored in the city’s emergency vegetable repositories, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday.

Shenzhen last Wednesday initiated a plan of keeping 15,000 tons of vegetables in temporary storage for emergency use.

In a designated vegetable repository in Pingshan District, more than 800 tons of vegetables are put into storage after quality tests.

The vegetables are sealed with transparent fi lm, labeled, kept off the ground and spaced apart so as to achieve a balanced cold storage effect.

Most of the vegetables currently kept in the cold storage warehouse are the favorite vegetables of Shenzhen citizens, according to the Daily.

“About half of the vegetables are leafy vegetables Shenzhen residents like to eat,” Zhong Weiguo, deputy general manager of Shenzhen Food Material Group Co. Ltd., said.

According to a manager with the warehouse, staff workers are arranged to patrol the site three times a day to check whether the temperature and humidity of the warehouse are in normal range and whether the vegetables are in good storage.

“Workers are required to have their temperatures measured every day before entering the site, and they are arranged to take nucleic acid tests on a regular basis,” the manager said.

The quality of each batch of vegetables leaving the warehouse must be inspected so that problematic vegetables will not be sold on the market, said the manager.