Xinhua News Agency, Wuhan, April 23 (Reporter Li Wei) On the 23rd, at a press conference held by the Hubei Province New Crown Pneumonia Epidemic Prevention and Control Headquarters, Meng Chunlin, deputy director of the Hubei Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, said that since 3 Starting from the 15th, all parts of the province have steadily promoted the resumption of industrial enterprises to resume production. By April 17, the resumption rate and resumption rate of industrial enterprises above designated size in the province reached 98.2% and 93% respectively.

  Meng Chunlin said that the recovery rate in 17 cities and prefectures in Hubei reached more than 96%, and the recovery rate in 15 cities and prefectures exceeded 92%. On the whole, Hubei is close to the national average at the level of resuming production and resuming production of industrial enterprises above the designated size, and has basically reached a normal level.

  Meng Chunlin said that at present, the bottleneck constraints of capital, cost, order, supply chain and other aspects of industrial enterprises in Hubei Province still exist. It is still difficult to resume production, and it is difficult to resume production, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises. The current resumption rate is less than 80%.

  Liu Weijun, director of the SME Development Division of the Hubei Provincial Department of Economics and Information Technology, said that the Hubei Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government have issued a series of policies to support small and medium-sized enterprises, reduce or exempt tax burdens on small and medium-sized enterprises, and reduce labor costs. Meng Chunlin said that the province will carry out special activities for leading cadres to visit service enterprises, fully understand the losses and impacts caused by the epidemic, encourage enterprises to speed up production recovery, help enterprises sort out difficulties in capital, talents, and markets, and send policies to the door. Hubei will establish a list of issues and responsibilities, resolve common issues from a policy level, and further improve the long-term mechanism for visiting service companies.