What is the background of the epidemic?

The background of this epidemic is that during the outbreak of COVID-19 in Spring Festival travel rush, a large number of population movements accelerated the spread of the epidemic and the liquidity risk continued to rise. However, with the continuous enhancement of comprehensive national strength in recent years, China's ability to deal with major emergencies and medical level have been significantly improved, providing a good guarantee for the containment of the epidemic.

The spread of the epidemic exceeded that of SARS, and more severe prevention and control measures have been taken in various places than during the SARS period, which will have a great impact on production and demand in the short term.

Opportunities brought by the epidemic

Lai Youwei, vice president of Meituan Review Group and president of Meituan Research Institute, believes that the epidemic has a far-reaching impact and may have a far-reaching impact on residents' consumption patterns, industry development direction and service model evolution.

With the continuous improvement of consumers' health awareness and the upgrading of residents' consumption structure, the attractiveness of closed supermarkets to consumers is likely to decline marginally, and community businesses around consumers' homes may become more important consumption scenes for residents, which will provide a broader space for the development of new formats such as fresh retail.

In addition, consumers have higher requirements for e-commerce products and health services, and the government has stricter supervision over health and health, which will lead to more new standards in the fields of health, hygiene and environmental protection.