BEIJING: China on Monday (March 16) transported 332,000 workers to their workplaces with special trains amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, official data showed. By Sunday, the China State Railway Group Co, Ltd. had sent 300 such trains since Feb 16, with another 13 trains ready to leave in the near future.
Employees wearing face masks work on a car seat assembly line at Yanfeng Adient factory in Shanghai, China. China on Monday transported 332,000 workers to their workplaces with special trains amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, official data showed. - Reuters
By Sunday, the China State Railway Group Co, Ltd. had sent 300 such trains since Feb 16, with another 13 trains ready to leave in the near future. The special trains are among China's efforts to smooth transportation for work and production resumption amid the outbreak, as those trains run non-stop to their destinations with"green channels" for workers.
Leading a central government group to guide the epidemic control work in Hubei, the centre of the coronavirus outbreak, Sun, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks while inspecting production resumption and spring plowing in Wuhan, capital of Hubei.
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