Key companies in northeastern Jilin province have recently begun resuming work successively, according to the Jilin Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology.

Officials said that since Feb 3, 493 key companies in the province had been working during the Spring Festival, while as of Feb 10, 229 of 500 key dispatching companies in the province had resumed work.

Officials said Changchun-based carmaker FAW Group has gradually resumed production.

The FAW Jiefang company resumed production on Feb 10 and FAW-Volkswagen plans to resume production on Feb 14.

The plant producing the group’s Hongqi brand vehicles is scheduled to return to production on March 8 following moves to transform and expand output.

Companies supplying key daily necessities in Jilin province have also resumed operations successively, officials said.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Jilin Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology has made efforts to promote the full production resumption of daily necessities, especially food companies.

To date, 114 of 177 key dispatching material production companies have resumed work and expanded production.

Officials said that in addition -- in view of the current acute need for medical disinfection alcohol in the province -- the department arranged for six key alcohol production companies to switch to production of disinfection alcohol from Feb 1.

They said that on Feb 1-10, the province produced a total of 5,536 tons of disinfection alcohol, providing great support for the province’s prevention and control of the novel coronavirus.