Most of Shanghai's retailers back in business

Business is getting back to normal, with most of the city's retailers having reopened.

In the retail sector, almost all supermarkets in the city have opened for business. Around 95 percent of shopping centers and department stores have resumed operations, so have 91.4 percent of convenience stores. Major e-commerce enterprises, meanwhile, have all resumed work, according to Liu Min, deputy director of the Shanghai Commission of Commerce.

As for the staple and non-staple food industries, wholesale markets have all resumed operations, and the proportion of reopened wet markets has reached 97.8 percent.

"At present, the city's staple and non-staple food market supply is adequate and rich," Liu said.

According to key monitoring data of major agricultural wholesale markets, the daily average of vegetable wholesale amount exceeds 6,500 tons in the city, and the wholesale number of hogs is more than 8,000 per day on average.

Meanwhile, the monitoring data of supermarkets showed an abundant supply of daily necessities including grain, oil, flour, green vegetables, eggs and milk. Commodities such as disinfection and hand sanitizer are sold like hotcakes and are restocked in a timely manner, thus ensuring the overall stock to gradually stabilize.

Major e-commerce platforms such as JD.com and Tmall Supermarket also maintained sufficient supplies. In total, e-commerce platforms received about a million orders a day in the city, with daily sales of about 170 tons of pork and 540 tons of vegetables.

The commerce commission has offered practical and effective services to enterprises, Liu said, and established a green channel for important items to ensure they quickly pass through expressway junctions, and are granted green passes to supermarkets.

It supports the quick resumption of services that are important to residents' daily lives, including housekeeping, catering and beauty salons, with guidance and instructions.

Lists of companies that have resumed business was released. The commission has guided the Shanghai Restaurant Cuisine Association to launch the lists of 80 catering service enterprises and 11 group meal service delivery enterprises. The 2.0 version list of catering enterprises was also issued in time, introducing more than 3,000 outlets of 150 catering enterprises that provide online delivery order services.

In the near future, the commission will release a list of beauty salons that can reopen for business.