At the end of 2019, a global infectious disease, the COVID-19 broke out. This virus not only spreads rapidly, but also is extremely harmful, which seriously threatens the safety of human life. It has a serious impact on the operation of the FPC industry, the service industry, and other industries.
The outbreak happened just before the traditional Chinese festival - Spring Festival. People who work in other places have also returned to their hometowns, and the population flow is very large. No one knows whether there are people in the floating population who carry the virus and whether it will infect others. In order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the government can only take measures of home isolation and prohibit mutual visits between relatives and friends during the Spring Festival. As usual, production usually starts on the seventh or eighth day after the Spring Festival. Due to the lack of epidemic prevention materials, most factories or companies did not meet the standards for epidemic prevention and control, and the resumption of work and production was forced to be postponed again. Almost all domestic processing and manufacturing industries have pressed the pause button, and existing orders cannot be produced. There are even some orders that are cancelled due to uncertain delivery time, and all walks of life have been severely impacted.
Almost mid-March 2020, anti-epidemic materials are gradually abundant, and enterprises and factories have also taken strict anti-epidemic measures. We have started production one after another and gradually resumed operations. But at the same time, large-scale epidemics also broke out abroad, which is another problem for enterprises and factories engaged in foreign trade. The epidemic has led to a sharp decline in foreign orders.
In 2020, due to the epidemic, the global economy has obviously regressed, and other industries including the FPC soft board industry have been all greatly affected.