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:

— Courier companies, which kept Chinese residents supplied during the COVID-19 epidemic and supported e-commerce business resumption, have resumed normal operations.

The country's postal and courier firms handled more than 200 million parcels every day, equal to the normal level before the outbreak of the epidemic, according to data from the State Post Bureau.

According to big data analysis of 3.5 million retailers on the country's e-commerce platforms, nearly 90 percent of them have resumed business, Cai Yudong, an official with the Ministry of Commerce, told a news conference on April 25.

— China vowed to beef up targeted support to people in poverty by creating more jobs and smoothing channels of farm produce sales to offset the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.

National projects that create more jobs and incomes for the poor will enjoy priority in work resumption and policy support, Wu Hua, an official with the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, told a news conference on April 24.

About 74.1 percent of poverty alleviation projects have broken ground as of April 10, according to Wu.

Millions of new jobs in various industries are now available for the poor laborers, including forest rangers, photovoltaic power plant workers and road maintenance workers, he said.