BEIJING — Amid further containment of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), China is powering ahead in returning to work and resuming business and production. The following are the latest facts and figures:
— About 95 percent of service outsourcing enterprises have resumed work as of mid-April, data from the Ministry of Commerce showed.
— Central China's Hubei province, once hard hit by COVID-19, has resumed the operation of 266 class-A tourist attractions, or 63.2 percent of the total, as the epidemic wanes, local authorities said on April 26.
— East China's Anhui province has announced it will try to implement a more flexible working schedule including a 2.5-day weekend to stimulate consumption curtailed by the COVID-19 outbreak.
— Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region plans to invest 880 million yuan this year to promote construction and update of tourism service facilities.
The projects that the autonomous region plans to invest in include 73 projects in tourist attractions and 21 tourism-related construction projects of public service facilities.