http://www.bjreview.com MARCH 26, 2020 BEIJING REVIEW 5
THIS WEEK
do not leave their residence. Those
who leave without permission will be
dealt with according to the law.
Green Production
Chinese authorities have unveiled
a guideline to accelerate the estab-
lishment of laws, regulations and
policies regarding green production
and consumption.
Efforts will be made to promote
cleaner production, resource
recycling and end management
amid the expansion of green
product consumption, said the
document jointly released by the
National Development and Reform
Commission and the Ministry of
Justice on March 17.
By 2025, regulations and
policies related to green production
and consumption will be further
improved, and an institutional
framework with incentives and con-
straints will be put in place, said the
document.
Green production and
consumption patterns will be imple-
mented in key areas and industries
by then, with overall improvements
in the country’s level of green
development.
The country will develop a circu-
lar economy, with a focus on green
production related to electrical,
electronic and automobile products,
power storage batteries, lead-
acid storage batteries and certain
packaging materials. Producers will
shoulder greater responsibility for
recycling waste products.
the pandas are doing every day. It re-
lieves my anxiety and makes me laugh,”
read one comment on the livestream
platform.
“After the epidemic, I’ll go to the
bases to visit the bears I have been rais-
ing ‘online,’” another said.Returning to Work
Hubei Province in central China, hit
hard by the novel coronavirus out-
break, has started sending out workers
after new infections petered out in most
of its cities.
The cities of Jingzhou, Huanggang,
Xianning and Qianjiang have ar-
ranged chartered vehicles to send out
thousands of migrant workers at a time
when factories across China are rushing
to resume work amid a labor crunch.On March 15, 49 chartered vehicles
carrying 1,445 workers departed from
Huanggang, which had reported no
new cases for 13 days.
The city had recorded 2,
confirmed cases of COVID-19.
Local officials said 750,000 mi-
grant workers who returned home for
the Spring Festival holiday have been
stranded in Huanggang since travel
restrictions were imposed to minimize
infection risks.
The city government has con-
tacted companies in the provinces of
Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu to
receive local workers, and sent police
officers and medics to escort the char-
tered vehicles.
On the morning of March 15,
another 72 workers from Qianjiang
arrived in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province
in east China, after an 11-hour journey
on four chartered buses.
“They will go through 14-day
quarantine at a designated spot upon
arrival. The Shaoxing Government will
cover all the expenses incurred and
provide them with daily necessities dur-
ing the quarantine,” said Xuan Fangjun
with Shaoxing’s human resources and
social security bureau.
The Hubei Provincial Government
has promised to issue health codes to
facilitate personnel movement within
Hubei and make arrangement to send
workers directly from their homes to
factories outside the province.XIN
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AThe guideline also stressed
measures to promote policy
mechanisms for green design and to
strengthen clean industrial produc-
tion and industrial pollution control.
China will also take steps to
promote clean energy development
and green growth of agriculture and
the service industry, among efforts
to encourage a greener lifestyle,
according to the document.Pandas Online
As many of China’s panda bases in
Sichuan Province in the southwest
were closed due to the novel coro-
navirus outbreak, local institutions
have been livestreaming to keep
global fans close to their beloved
animal.
The livestreaming is the result
of cooperation between the China
Conservation and Research Center for
the Giant Panda, which closed its four
panda bases since January 25, and
iPanda.com.
The contents on the site have been
browsed over 700 million times globally
since the bases were closed, with 200
million views of videos and 5 million
interactions, according to the institution.
The livestreaming focuses on the
daily activities of the giant bears in the
bases. In one of the bases, the broadcasts
received over 8 million views.
The site also opened a new column
to show how keepers interact with the
pandas, as well as the epidemic preven-
tion and control efforts made in the
bases.
“I spend some time watching whatMuseum
Reopens
People visit the Shanghai
Natural History Museum
on March 13. The museum
reopened that day after
thorough disinfection.
The number of visitors was
restricted to 30 percent of
the normal capacity for
epidemic control.Concert in Field
Actors perform in a rapeseed ³ eld in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province in east
China, on March 16. The concert was held in the ³ eld to give visitors a unique
experience.