Industrial production resumes as epidemic wanes in Hainan

To speed up the economic recovery, local industrial and agricultural authorities have introduced a slew of measures to help enterprises fight the epidemic, ensure supplies such as electricity and gas, optimize the allocation and transportation of agricultural materials, and expand the production and marketing channels for agricultural products.

Hainan has also increased financial support across a broad array of areas, said local officials.

Official data show that Hainan has broken ground on 102 key projects recently and around 1,030 large-scale enterprises have resumed normal production.

Two international freight routes－from Haikou to Paris, France, and from Haikou to Sydney, Australia-resumed operations on Sept 3 and 5, respectively.

The high-speed railway that loops around the tropical island resumed operation on Thursday, after being suspended for one month.

On Friday, the provincial COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters issued a notice on the full resumption of road transport across Hainan, on the condition of normalized epidemic prevention and control.

So far, fishermen in nine cities and counties in Hainan have restarted sea fishing operations, according to officials with the provincial agriculture and rural affairs department.

A detailed code of practice on epidemic prevention and control has been enforced for sea fishing, and strict epidemic prevention and control measures have been implemented in key areas such as fishing ports and seafood markets.

More than 21,000 medical workers from 20 provinces and regions came to Hainan to help during the recent epidemic and most of them had returned home as of Sept 11, said local officials.