Blizzard hits Beijing economy in many fields

Source: Internet
Author: User
Wen/"Chinese entrepreneur" trainee reporter Xu Kai the transportation industry is affected by the snowstorm, which leads to lower efficiency of the downstream industries such as logistics, and because of the obstruction of people's travel, so that the catering and shopping and so on, so as to reduce sales, many areas encounter a "cold wave."  According to some enterprises conservative estimates, due to heavy snow caused the decline in sales of enterprises in 10%-20%.  "China entrepreneur" website comprehensive report "since 1951, the biggest snowfall in January has fallen to Beijing."  The big Blizzard created a number of records: The longest duration, the widest coverage, the largest precipitation, the snow layer of the thickest four records. The weather has been in the cold for more than 30 of years, while the transport industry by Blizzard Impact, resulting in lower efficiency of logistics and other downstream industries, and because of the obstruction of people travel, so that food and shopping and so on to reduce sales, a number of areas encounter a "cold wave."  And the only good news is the ski resort, which lowers labor costs.  Sudden drop of blizzard, the first is the transportation industry. In the area of road traffic, yesterday, the Ministry of Transport said that according to the Network Center monitoring control of the situation, affected by strong snowfall, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and other 8 provinces (district, City) 3rd Total has 15 highways, 3 national road of local sections, due to road snow closed traffic,  of which the highway in Hebei almost all closed.  In the aviation industry, by the snow lasted long time, heavy snowfall, wind direction changes frequently, visibility and low factors, as of yesterday 17 o'clock in the afternoon, the total snowfall caused the airport 531 flight delays, 445 flights canceled. An aviation analyst believes that the heavy snow weather, like 3rd, will certainly have a knock-on effect on airline operations. First, airlines need to deploy more personnel for passenger coordination and so on, increasing human costs. Second, the use of aircraft and crew is also reduced due to cancellations of flights or delays in aircraft.  In addition to the impact of snow, some passengers may choose other means of transport, or do not travel to deal with the current situation, which will certainly reduce the capacity of the aircraft. The impact of transport on the shock wave will be postponed to its downstream industries, such as logistics. It is understood that the continuous heavy snow caused the vehicle difficult to line, cargo transport can not arrive on time, the city of Beijing's freight times are generally longer than the usual extension of one times according to the North China general Manager Shili Express, to most areas of the main bus can not be directly arrived, transshipment vehicles time is not timely, individual areas of the delivery,  The site is affected to a certain extent.  Due to logistics delays, the city's food prices have been raised, Beijing food prices rose by about 20%. According to the Beijing Business Report, the new Hair Market Statistics Department head Liu Tong said, after the rise in the price of snow is mainly some of the vegetables in the suburbs, such as spinach, fennel, leek, and so on, because this part of the vegetables are in the suburbs and Beijing around the production, in order to keep the fresh vegetables, these vegetables are picked at night, The night before the new market, the night before the beginning of the snow, the transport of these vegetablesHad a certain impact, so yesterday the supply in the market decreased, which led to a rise in prices.  For the future trend of food prices, the new market deputy general manager Liu Jianhui Analysis, with the snow after the wind cooling on the road traffic impact, the field of vegetables can not timely Beijing, the next two days, some of the price of vegetables will continue to rise, and may even be a shortage of individual vegetable varieties of the situation.  At the same time, heavy snow caused by the inconvenience of travel, so that catering, shopping malls and other needs of the public to go out of the activities are affected. According to some enterprises conservative estimates, due to heavy snow caused the decline in sales of enterprises in 10%-20%. Poly de Huatian group related person in charge of the interview said: "Catering is a rely industry." Although we can attract customers through activities and promotions, the sale of the restaurant is bound to be greatly affected by heavy snow and heavy weather.  "A sudden snowfall disrupted the last day of travel arrangements for consumers ' New Year holiday, and the expected peak sales were not available," he said. The only good news is from the ski resort. According to the Beijing Business newspaper, a head of the Beijing Jundu ski resort said, "Since yesterday morning, there have been a member of the club called to ask about the snow thickness of ski resorts, now, many slides of natural snow thickness has been more than 30 centimeters, which is good for ski enthusiasts, Also for us to save more than 100,000 yuan of artificial snow cost. ”

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