April 30, 2022

Companies on Shanghai’s initial whitelist have resumed over 80 percent of their production, with key enterprises like SAIC Motor and US carmaker Tesla seeing assembled cars roll off production lines while the production capacity of large semiconductor makers SMIC and Hua Hong Semiconductor maintains over 90 percent, effectively boosting work resumption among auxiliary companies, an official said on Saturday.

To orderly promote work resumption in key sectors, Shanghai has drawn up a second list of 1,188 companies, mainly in sectors including integrated circuits, automobile manufacturing, equipment manufacturing and biomedicine, Zhang Hongtao, chief engineer of the Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission, said during a press conference held in Shanghai on Saturday.

China has established a “whitelist” approach to support the resumption of work for key companies and minimize the impact of COVID-19 on the supply chain. By now, Shanghai’s whitelist authorizes a total of 1,854 companies to resume work.

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