As China pushes for resuming production, Wuhan City and Hubei Province sent out a signal to move towards lifting the “lockdown” controls.
On March 8, the Hubei Airport Group issued a notice to prepare for resuming operations. The notice said, according to arrangements by the Hubei Provincial and Wuhan Municipal Novel Coronavirus Epidemic Prevention and Control Command Center, each unit of the Hubei Airport Group should resume work starting March 10, each regional airport should complete preparation for resuming operations by March 12, each company should complete preparations for resuming flights and operations by March 16, and the group company and relevant government offices should inspect the preparations on March 17.
A reporter from e Company obtained information from someone close to the airport group, “Now it is just in the preparation stage. Whether to resume flights is dependent on how the epidemic develops from March 15 to March 20.”
[Editor’s Note: There had been several incidents in the past few weeks in which a local government planned to lift the “lockdown” but then reverted back, including: Wuhan allowed people to leave the city for few hours, Beijing rescinded a plan to resume operations for the movie industry, and Qianjiang City, Hubei Province retracted an announcement to unlock the city.]Related postings on Chinascope:
- Local Government: After Announcing Unlocking the City, Qianjiang Reverted Back to Lockdown
- Resuming Production: Companies in Shenzhen Fighting for Labors
- Resuming Production: After Issuing Direction for Movie Industry to Resume Operations, Beijing Said Not to Resume
- Resuming Production: By February 26, One Third of Small or Mid-Sized Companies Resumed Work
- Resuming Production: Xi Jinping Said Half of China’s Counties Do Not Have Coronavirus
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抗疫形势向好之下，全国复工复产全面铺开，就连处于“封城”状态的武汉也于3月8日释放“解封”信号：湖北机场集团下发复工复航准备通知。
通知显示， 按照省市新冠肺炎疫情防控指挥部部署，湖北机场集团各部门3月10日开始正常到岗上班；各支线机场在3月12日之前完成复工复航准备工作；各板块公司在3月16日前完成复工复航准备工作；3月17日集团领导和相关部门组织复工复航检查。
e公司记者从接近机场集团的人士获悉，“现在只是复航准备阶段，确定复航还要看3月15-3月20日整体的疫情形势。”
Source: Stock Times, March 9, 2020
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