Booking cancellation fees for visitors from China waived

06:19, February 13, 2020

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  United cancels China flights through April 24

  (Photo: Xinhua)United Airlines extended its suspension of flights to China and Hong Kong through April 24 because of the coronavirus, according to Chicago Business.The Chicago-based carrier does the most flying to China among the major U.S. airlines, with about a dozen flights a day to Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai and Hong Kong. It previously had suspended its China flights through March 28 and Hong Kong flights through Feb. 20, the news media said.“We will continue to monitor the situation in China and evaluate our schedule as we remain in close contact with the CDC and other public health experts around the globe,” United said.

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  China remains Australia's biggest source of visitors

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  China to cut some pension, insurance fees to help enterprises combat coronavirus

  Medical workers perform medical treatment on a patient in Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University in Wuhan, central Chinas Hubei Province, January 24, 2020. (Photo: Xinhua)China will cut some pension contributions and insurance fees to help companies affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the decision made at a State Council executive meeting on Tuesday.Companies in Hubei Province, the epicenter of the outbreak, will be exempted from paying pensions, jobless insurance and work injury insurance from February to June.And for other provinces, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will be exempted from the three expenses from February to June, and large enterprises can be reduced by half from February to April.Also, enterprises can apply for deferred payment of housing funds before the end of June. And employees who have not been able to repay their housing funds due to the epidemic will not be defined as overdue during this period.Implementing these helping measures is to reduce the impact of the epidemic on enterprises, especially SMEs, which was stressed at the meeting, and it is to provide a buffer period for enterprises to resume production.The COVID-19, which first broke out in Hubeis provincial capital Wuhan, has infected more than 70,000 people and claimed over 1,800 lives.It was also stressed and encouraged during the meeting that agriculture and hog production increase state reserves of frozen pork.Local governments should give priority to the agricultural production while providing guidance on the prevention and control of the epidemic in rural areas, highlighted in the meeting.Enterprises selling seeds, fertilizer and animal feed should accelerate production, and a green channel for facilitating the transportation of agricultural materials will be established. Areas with certain conditions are encouraged to resume the production of double-cropping rice.Meanwhile, farmers and households involved in livestock and poultry production t...