On February 3, 2020, at a State Council Information Office briefing on the coronavirus, Gan Lin, deputy head of the State Administration for Market Regulation, said that her agency had told its whole system to te shi te ban, “handle special matters specially.” Firms that met the conditions were to get business licenses and production permits in the shortest possible time, so that they could start production at once.
In 2022, the magazine Banyuetan wrote that this kind of handling, “with efficiency first and flexible methods,” had always been an important tool of grassroots governance. Its headline named the difficulty: matters must be handled specially, and also according to law and regulation.