Foreign-funded companies and joint ventures across China have gradually resumed production and demonstrated their confidence in the Chinese market.

Airbus China said in a company press release that it has been authorized by Chinese authorities and has restarted operations at the Tianjin assembly line. This means it can gradually increase production, while implementing all required health and safety measures for Airbus employees, which remains the company's top priority, the press release said.

Airbus Tianjin general manager Frank Schreiber was quoted in an interview with Tianjin TV as saying that the company has full confidence in tackling current challenges.

"We are trying to reduce the short-term impact. Based on the current situation, it's not difficult for us to fulfill our whole year target," Chang Tong, general manager of Bombardie's Tianjin branch company, told Jinyun news portal.

In Binhai New Area of Tianjin, a total of 721 companies, including 85 from overseas, had resumed operations and production earlier this week.

Tianjin has released up to 21 measures to help companies to cushion the impact brought about by the novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP or COVID-19). Authorities in Binhai High-tech Zone in Binhai New Area also subsidized up to 100 million yuan (U.S.$14.2 million) to companies to tide over the outbreak.

In Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province, the new RAV4 SUV produced by a joint venture between FAW and Toyota rolled off the production line on Monday.

"We are trying to minimize the impact of the outbreak of the NCP with a number of teams, including procurements, and logistics and have fastened our pace in the collaboration and preparation in welding, punching, coating and assembly workshops since late last week," said a company executive with SFTM, a joint venture between FAW and Toyota.

Four out of the five production lines at FAW-VW have resumed production and have seen up to 3,825 staff members join the manufacturing restarting campaign for Bora and Audi. Their production site is under strong protective measures for staff members.

"We have set up five service teams for auto producers here in the zone, helping to solve their difficulties 24 hours a day," Jiang Xutong, vice director, Changchun Automobile Economic and Technological Development Zone, said.

Domestic companies have beefed up their efforts in the same production resumption campaign.

Auto giant Brilliance Auto's manufacturing base for special vehicles in Dalian Jinpu New Area, northeast China's Liaoning Province, started full-scale operation on Monday.

It now can produce five negative-pressured ambulances a day and monthly capacity is expected to reach 120. The base now has more than 300 sets of orders and purchase intentions. The company also is developing mobile spray disinfection trucks, medical waste collection trucks, medical shelters, and other emergency support products for the ongoing fight against the epidemic.

In Maotai town in southwest China's Guizhou Province, Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd., an iconic baijiu (liquor) distillery, said it will maintain its production and sales goal for the year and has resumed production.

The company said earlier it aims to achieve revenue of 110 billion yuan (U.S.$15.8 billion) and net profit of 50.5 billion yuan this year, both up 10 percent year-on-year.

In south China's island province of Hainan, 14 construction sites, including the second phase of the Meilan Airport in Haikou, capital of Hainan Province, are active beginning this week.

Sinopec's Hainan ethylene production line's expansion project, with an annual production volume of up to 1 million tonnes, has seen its construction restarted.

The company is fully confident that the completion of the expansion project will drive an industrial value of up to 100 billion yuan.

In Beijing, echoing manufacturing and business demand, Zhongguancun-based Hanvon has released its latest and upgraded facial recognition products to help identify people with face masks on, in a bid to secure better health amid current novel coronavirus outbreak.

In Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, 40 enterprises have resumed production and a total of 288 other businesses are expected to restart operation within the first quarter.