Background:
The Wenzhou municipal government has forced local companies to resume operations. Businesses were previously on a long break in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. But China’s central government, fearing long-term losses for the economy, ordered all companies to resume operations on Feb. 10. The Wenzhou government set a 3,000-kilowatt-hour power consumption as a hard target. If a factory fails to resume normal daily operations, the factory owner will face serious punishment. One factory owner pretended that his factory had resumed operations by turning on machines and letting them run without producing anything. In fact, his employees have not returned to work yet and he still needs to get raw materials ready.

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