Resuming life, production

The cities of Changchun and Jilin in Jilin province began gradually easing their citywide closed-off management restrictions from Thursday.

On Thursday morning, residents in Changchun went outdoors to jog and walk along the Yitong River after days of home quarantine. Some went out to supermarkets to shop while wearing masks and maintaining social distance.

"We are going shopping to celebrate the return to normality," said Liu Cong, a Changchun resident.

As the transmission of COVID-19 has been effectively curbed, Jilin Province, the northeastern manufacturing hub and national commodity grain base which has seen over 60,000 cases reported in the latest outbreak, will resume normal life and production in an orderly manner.

In the cities of Changchun and Jilin, public transportation has resumed service, while supermarkets and wholesale markets selling agricultural products and daily necessities began to reopen on Thursday.

The 500 major enterprises in the province including leading Chinese automaker FAW Group Co., Ltd. have resumed work and production under daily COVID-19 prevention and control measures including nucleic acid testing and disinfection.

Fawer Automotive Parts Co., Ltd., auto parts supplier of automakers such as FAW Group and Great Wall Motors, said its daily output has exceeded more than 100 tonnes.

In Shanghai, major companies and factories have been gradually resuming work and production. US carmaker Tesla's Shanghai factory officially resumed production on April 19.

"We have full confidence in China's economy," said Tao Lin, vice president of Tesla. "From the process of the current production resumption, we have seen China's ability to cope with challenges, and we believe that normality will soon return."