China News Service, March 13. Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson of the State Council Taiwan Office, said in an interview on the 13th that the working system for Taiwan and relevant departments and local governments have thoroughly implemented the internship. In the spirit of the important speech at the meeting, under the guidance of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the Taiwan Affairs Offices across the country took a series of practical measures to actively assist Taiwan-funded enterprises in order to resume work and production in an orderly manner while preventing and controlling the epidemic.

Data chart: Taiwan-funded enterprises employees work in mask production workshops. Photo by China News Agency reporter Cai Zixin

Zhu Fenglian said that the Jiangsu Provincial Taiwan Affairs Office implemented 10 local support measures to help Taiwanese enterprises resume work and resume production, solve epidemic prevention supplies, supply chain and logistics, labor difficulties, and increase financial support. The Fujian-Taiwan-Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of Fujian Province, in conjunction with relevant financial institutions, established the first batch of 2 billion yuan of special emergency loan funds for key Taiwanese enterprises in Fujian Province. The Taiwan Offices in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Guangdong, Chongqing, Sichuan, Tianjin, Liaoning, Jiangxi and Shenzhen actively carry out various types of assistance work to coordinate and solve the practical difficulties encountered by Taiwanese enterprises in the process of resuming production and restarting production. To ensure that Taiwanese enterprises equally enjoy the various relief policies and measures issued by the central and local governments in response to the epidemic. According to incomplete statistics, as of March 10, the resumption rate of industrial Taiwanese enterprises above designated size in Taiwan-funded areas has exceeded 90%, and all industrial Taiwanese enterprises above designated sizes in Fujian and other regions have resumed their operations and resumed production.

Zhu Fenglian said that a number of major Taiwan-funded projects recently settled in Fujian, Jiangsu and other places through remote video signing and other methods, with a total amount of more than 15 billion yuan, indicating that Taiwanese companies and Taiwanese enterprises continue to be optimistic about the development prospects of the mainland.