On April 16, at a press conference held by the Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism of the State Council, Xu Kemin, director of the Industrial Policy and Regulation Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that as of April 14, the average operating rate of industrial enterprises above designated size in the country had reached 99%. The return rate of personnel reached 94%. The current overseas epidemic situation is spreading rapidly, and some new situations and new problems have occurred in the resumption of production in the manufacturing industry. Insufficient demand in the international and domestic markets, rising production costs of enterprises, difficult capital turnover, and poor international logistics have caused enterprises that have resumed production to face production cuts again. The risk of suspension of production has affected the stability of the industrial chain and supply chain.
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