2021, the world has really changed, can the mask still take off?

Given the interplay of the COVID-19 pandemic, an uneven economic recovery and geopolitical turmoil, 2021 is also bound to be an extremely difficult year to predict.

But in the big picture, there are undercurrents that have shaped the year since the outbreak.

Will 2021 repeat what happened in 2020?

Do vaccines really work for ever?

Where Is the New Battleground in China-US Relations?

Is online life going mainstream?

What are the new risks?

Mass production of the vaccine has already begun, and Pfizer says it could produce 50 million doses by the end of 2020. Even so, scaling up vaccine production will not be easy. The Serum Institute, the world's largest vaccine maker, says it will take until at least 2024 to produce enough vaccine to vaccinate people worldwide.

The cold chain in which vaccines are kept is very temperature-demanding and can also cause delays in vaccination.It is also difficult for people with little training to manage the vaccines, and there have been news reports of terrorists trying to grab them.But none of this is the most serious problem.Novel coronavirus, a British variant, tells us that vaccines may be in danger of failing.It takes time for a virus to mutate and recombine, but eventually, if a completely different virus does emerge, all previous vaccines will be a flop.

At the beginning of 2020, mask companies are increasing their production capacity, and the demand for masks will continue to decrease as the epidemic recedes.IMedia analysts believe that masks, an industry with different production processes and requirements, should optimize the industrial structure in the production process and establish an industrial ecosystem of innovation collaboration, capacity sharing and supply chain interoperability to better improve the overall output quality and efficiency of the industry.At the same time, in the sales link, we should increase export and promote Chinese mask products to become the main supplier of mask products in the world.

Before China's mask enterprises only mostly achieves the national standards, consumer demand for masks are the foundation, and in 2020 will be under the influence of coronavirus outbreak, related social protection consciousness change, mask industry also get everybody's attention, a lot of the influx of capital and technology will promote the development of China's mask industry specialization.

When epidemic control gradually, mask industry excess capacity will be adjusted, masks the value of the enterprise and brand will be taken seriously, with the support of capital and technology, in the next few years, China will be a group of similar to 3 m masks enterprise, at the same time mask industry will be dominated by these companies in China, further expand the export of masks.