The resort city of Sanya in south China's island province of Hainan has become the first Chinese city to join its global peers in the "No Plastic in Nature" initiative of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the municipal government said Saturday.
Workers have been busy in the daily patrolling, water monitoring, artificial fish reef arrangement, and other underwater tasks as the marine ranch at Wuzhizhou Island, a 5A tourist resort in Sanya, resumed work on March 27.
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, according to an announcement by the Foreign Ministry and the National Immigration Administration on Thursday.
Most restaurants in South China's Hainan province have reopened as the coronavirus epidemic has been gradually contained in the island province and across the country as a whole.
South China's Hainan province cured all its 162 hospitalized cases of COVID-19 and discharged the last patient from the Hainan General Hospital on March 24.
South China's Hainan province further strengthened its efforts on the management of people coming to Hainan from overseas areas on March 23 to reduce the risk of imported cases of COVID-19.
