澳媒爆內幕！中國操縱企業 早一步搜刮各國物資 自由 20200401

【縛雞之見】

不會僅僅澳洲的綠地集團而已，中國的海外企業同一時間都做相同的事情。

台灣的新聞也曾報導過，在12月中台灣政府察覺到中國在採購大量醫療物資，加上其他人因訊息，從而研判有重大人傳人的疫情。

這也解釋了，各國防護用品不足，但同時中國各地都有非接觸式體溫計與高階口罩的現象。

我們甚至可以懷疑：搜刮醫療用品，是中國隱匿疫情的一個因素。

澳媒爆內幕！中國操縱企業 早一步搜刮各國物資    自由 20200401

武漢肺炎殃及全球，各國都出現民眾瘋搶物資現象，有澳洲媒體爆料，今年初武漢肺炎病毒爆發之時，中國政府便了早一步，主導中資企業搜刮各國醫療用品，運回中國。

澳洲雪梨晨驅報（The Sydney Morning Herald）報導，受中國當局支持的房地產巨頭綠地集團（Greenland Group）由上海政府掌握多數股權，2013年成立以來，已在雪梨和墨爾本出售了價值超過10億美元的住宅公寓，也被《財富》雜誌列為世界500大公司之一。在武漢肺炎爆發時，綠地集團員工接到指令，擱置正常工作，在全球大量採購醫療用品運回中國。

該公司內部人士透露，綠地集團在全球都這麼做，在雪梨也不例外，購買了大量的外科口罩、溫度計、抗菌濕巾、手消毒水、手套等，甚至在社交媒體上發佈「努力」的成績。公司員工被要求提供任何醫療用品，蒐集物資優先於其他工作，這項行動持續了數週直到2月，甚至整個會計部門缺席了幾天，因為都在採購物資。

對此綠地集團坦承1和2月運輸醫療用品，稱其是在協助減輕病毒傳播，因為這種病毒造成了中國重要醫療用品短缺。

根據公司資訊，綠地集團從澳洲、加拿大、土耳其和其他國家搜刮了300萬個防護口罩、70萬套防護服和50萬副手套。並組織人力和物力緊急購買醫療用品，例如口罩、防護服和護目鏡。綠地集團澳洲總經理2月份還曾在社交媒體高調稱：「綠地澳洲正在行動，第二批非接觸式額溫計將很快空運到中國！中國人和海外人都在努力共同對抗病毒。」

中國官媒《新華社》1月底曾報導，「綠地集團」捐贈上海市2000萬人民幣防疫物資，之前也曾支援武漢50萬片口罩、2萬件隔離服及向相關省市捐贈防疫物資。截至當時，綠地累計已完成海外集貨總量防護口罩300萬片、醫用隔離和防護服70萬件、醫用手套50萬雙，陸續運抵中國。

Chinese-backed company's mission to source Australian medical supplies    The Sydney Morning Herald 20200326

As the coronavirus took hold in Wuhan earlier this year, staff from the Chinese government-backed global property giant Greenland Group were instructed to put their normal work on hold and source bulk supplies of essential medical items to ship back to China.

A whistleblower from the company has told the Herald it was a worldwide Greenland effort - and the Sydney office was no different, sourcing bulk supplies of surgical masks, thermometers, antibacterial wipes, hand sanitisers, gloves and Panadol for shipping.

The company even posted its efforts of packing pallets in the company’s Sydney headquarters on social media.

Chinese property developing group Greenland scoured Australia to purchase bulk medical supplies - including masks, gloves and thermometers - which were flown to China.

"Basically all employees, the majority of whom are Chinese, were asked to source whatever medical supplies they could," one company insider told the Herald.  This exercise went on for weeks through January and February, he said.

The entire accounts department, contract managers, the human resources team and even receptionists were sent on a mission to find bulk supplies of surgical masks, thermometers, antibacterial wipes, hand sanitisers, gloves and Panadol.

"There were numerous requests from the HR manager and even our direct reporting line [which] prioritised the assisting of the company in gathering these supplies over other work activities," said the source.  The entire accounts department were absent for days as they were out purchasing supplies, he said.

In a statement to the Herald, the Greenland Group confirmed the shipment of medical supplies in January and February saying it "felt compelled ... to assist in efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus, which had caused a shortage of crucial medical supplies in China."

Greenland Australia supported the group's initiative "by arranging for medical supplies to be dispatched to China, which at that time, was the epicentre of the outbreak," the statement said.

The boardroom and meeting rooms of Greenland’s headquarters in Market Street were used to repack the medical items into boxes stamped with the company’s logo.  Pallet-loads of the medical supplies were then sent to China.

Sherwood Luo, the managing director of Greenland Australia, posted photographs of this occurring on social media.

For instance on February 13 he posted on WeChat "#CombatCoronavirus, Greenland Australia is Taking Action.  The second batch of non-contact forehead thermometers will soon take off to China!  Coronavirus situation is serious, Chinese people, local and overseas, are trying their best, fighting together to combat the virus."

At this time China was battling the COVID-19 epidemic.  As of February 14 Australia had only 15 known cases.  It now has more than 2,300.

According to a company newsletter, the Greenland Group sourced 3 million protective masks, 700,000 hazmat suits and 500,000 pairs of protective gloves from "Australia, Canada, Turkey and other countries."

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The newsletter also said, "Greenland Group Australia also organised the manpower and material resources to urgently purchase medical supplies such as masks, protective clothing and goggles in major Australian cities."

The Greenland group, which is majority owned by the Shanghai government, has sold more than a billion dollars worth of residential apartments in Sydney and Melbourne since its arrival in 2013.

Its flagship project, ‘Greenland Centre Sydney’, in Bathurst Street in Sydney’s CBD, will be one of the tallest residential towers in the city.

According to its website, the Greenland group says it has been consistently listed by Fortune Magazine as one of the 500 largest companies in the world.  The company also claims that of its 23 ultra-high-rise projects under construction, four are among the world’s top ten tallest buildings.