Impact of Covid-19 pandemic on global supply chain

Global supply chain plays an extremely important role in global economic development. The Covid-19 pandemic first appeared in China and spread rapidly to many countries around the world. To ensure safety and limit the infection, countries around the world have in turn introduced control measures. This is a strong blow to the supply chain of goods, thereby affecting production enterprises. It directly affects the interruption of the supply of input materials for the production processes. China is the second largest economy in the world and is considered the factory of the world. When China had a special epidemic when the government of this country implemented the Zero Covid policy, since then many restrictive policies on import and export of goods and input materials were conducted, disrupting the supply chain in the world, many manufacturing industries lack input materials. This article has also mentioned the extremely important role of global supply chain, the causes of supply chain disruptions, and suggested solutions.