Maoming in South China's Guangdong province had 9,433 new registered market entities in the first quarter of this year, maintaining a steady growth.
The natural gas trunk line project linking Maoming and Yangjiang, two nearby cities in Guangdong province, started construction on March 30.
The final five members of Maoming's first batch of medical workers that were dispatched to Hubei province return to Maoming on March 31.
Maoming donates 100,000 masks to its sister city, Sittard-Geleen in the Netherlands to help quench the shortage amid the COVID-19 epidemic.
Maoming has won eight prizes at the Guangdong Science & Technology Innovation Conference in Guangzhou on March 25, ranking first in the east, west, and south of Guangdong.
China has decided to temporarily suspend the entry into China by foreign nationals holding valid visas or residence permits because of the rapid global spread of COVID-19.