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Shanghai citizens bought folding beds and found them marked as "disaster relief supplies". Officials: Supplies that should have been destroyed were sold privately

2024-08-12

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According to Jimu News, on August 11, a Shanghai man claimed to have bought two "new folding beds" that were sealed in plastic, but found that the beds were labeled as disaster relief supplies. On August 12, the Shanghai Pudong New Area Emergency Management Bureau confirmed to Jimu News that the beds were used relief supplies, which should have been sent to the steel mill for destruction after being disinfected and sealed again, but were sold privately and are currently under strict investigation.

On the morning of the 12th, Mr. Dai, a Shanghai citizen, told Jimu News that on the 11th, he went to the market to buy two beds because someone came to his house temporarily. In the end, he bought two plastic-wrapped folding beds at a second-hand goods store on Hangxing Road, Pudong New Area, for 160 yuan each. They looked brand new. When he got home, he found that the bed was printed with words related to disaster relief supplies, and next to it was written "Scan the code for full traceability." Mr. Dai asked the store owner, who said that he got it from a legal channel, but he was still worried about whether the bed could be used.

The video provided by Mr. Dai shows that the blue single bed is printed with the words "Supervised by the Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China" and there is also a traceability code on the bed.

Screenshot of the video released by Mr. Dai (Source: Interviewee)

On August 12, Jimu News contacted the store owner who sold the beds to Mr. Dai. He said that he bought dozens of new folding single beds with plastic wrap in a shed under an elevated bridge on Hangrui Road in Pudong New Area on June 12. He had sold some of them before, and some are still stored in the warehouse.