http://www.bjreview.com MARCH 26, 2020 BEIJING REVIEW 7
THIS WEEK
XIN
HU
AXIN
HU
Aed by 7.3 percent and 6.5 percent,
respectively.
Aviation Efforts
The aviation industry in China
will beef up efforts to curb the
import of novel coronavirus cases,
according to the Civil Aviation
Administration of China (CAAC).
The administration has cat-
egorized ́ ights into three levels
of high, medium or low epidemic
risk in accordance with factors
including the epidemic situation of
the departure countries, the pas-
senger load and the conditions of
the ́ ights, Zhu Tao, an of³ cial with
CAAC, told a press conference on
March 16.
Passengers will be managed in
different areas and arranged to sit
separately, and quarantine areas will
be set in high-risk ́ ights, Zhu said.
The Beijing Capital
International Airport has des-
ignated a special zone for all
international ́ ights as well as
́ ights from Hong Kong, Macao
and Taiwan. All passengers
($96.34 million), increasing by 14
percent year on year.
The commission said local
departments including customs,
bonded zones and ports have
teamed up to help cross-border
e-commerce enterprises resume
work and production and solve
problems of employment, as well
as streamline the customs declara-
tion process.
Up to now, 11 warehouses of
major cross-border enterprises in
Tianjin including Alibaba’s logis-
tics arm Cainiao, China’s online
retailer JD.com and Kaola have re-
sumed work, with more than 1,
employees back to their posts,
according to the commission.Online Amusement
China’s online entertainment
industry has shown strong vitality
due to people’s growing online
cultural and entertainment
consumption during the novel
coronavirus epidemic, People’sDaily reported on March 16.
During the epidemic, short
videos have become a part of
many people’s lives, and the
number of short video platform
users has increased rapidly.
According to statistics cited by
the newspaper, the number of
daily active users of Douyin
reached 311 million during the
Spring Festival holiday, up 93.
percent from the same period in
the previous year.
People also use short video
platforms and video websites to
get timely information about epi-
demic prevention and control. For
example, the Yangshipin app, a
new media platform of the China
Media Group, gained popularity
after livestreaming the construc-
tion of the Huoshenshan and
Leishenshan hospitals in Wuhan.
Figures cited by the newspa-
per show that travel-themed and
food-themed videos have also
attracted many viewers amid the
disembarking from these ́ ights epidemic.
are required to undergo health
check-ups including temperature
screening at checkpoints.
To bring Chinese citizens back
home from the hard-hit countries,
CAAC has carried out seven trans-
portation missions, bringing back
1,101 people. Nine experts have
́ own abroad along with nearly
90 tons of supplies in six ́ ights to
aid other countries’ ³ ght against
the pandemic, Zhu said.
CAAC will continue to arrange
or charter such ́ ights based on
actual demand, he added.More Imports
The Commission of Commerce of
Tianjin Municipality in north China
said on March 16 that the city’s
cross-border e-commerce import
orders increased by 22 percent
year on year in the January-
February period.
Tianjin received more than
4.22 million import orders in
the past two months, with a total
sales volume of 675 million yuanWork Resumption
A construction site of the Lhasa Gongga Airport in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous
Region, southwest China, on March 15. Reconstruction and expansion of the
airport fully resumed on that day.
Steady Resumption
Work is resumed at a shield machine production line at China Railway
Engineering Equipment Group in Zhengzhou, Henan Province in central
China, on March 18