Donations to help fight COVID-19 arrive in the city of Hohhot. [Photo provided to en.hhhtnews.com]

Chinese dairy giant Yili Group – based in Hohhot, capital of North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region – recently donated supplies to help the city fight the latest outbreak of COVID-19.

Yili donated daily necessities to front-line workers and delivered milk, yogurt, cheese, mineral water and other products to the Chilechuan Cabin Hospital – a pop-up hospital – as well as to the front line of community prevention and controls and schools in the urban area.

Production gets underway at a Yili milk plant. [Photo provided to en.hhhtnews.com]

Through closed-loop management for production safety and accurate analysis of consumer demand to ensure market supplies, Yili Group is reportedly making every effort to guarantee continuous production of its dairy products and market sales.

The group has put together an advanced production plan and streamlined management procedures and operating protocols for raw milk purchases and storage, logistics and transportation, production and processing, packaging and sales, as well as detailed prevention and control measures.

The company has promoted contactless distribution and transportation and carried out distribution and sales models – such as online ordering and deliveries to specified points and self-pickups – so as to make sure there is a continuous supply of dairy products to residents.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 epidemic in 2020, Yili has invested a total of 380 million yuan ($53 million) in coronavirus prevention and control efforts.

Some 60 million yuan of that was donated that year to the China Red Cross Foundation, to support its epidemic prevention and control work in Inner Mongolia and Hohhot.