Covid-19 is an issue but China's economy aim for fast rebound

Employees wearing protective face masks queue as they return to work at an office building in Shanghai. The country’s entrepreneurs on Saturday (Feb 14) are confident and they believe that the government's promises of a quick rebound after the epidemic passes will come to fruition. - AFP

BEIJING/SHANGHAI: The Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak that has halted much of China's economic machinery presents a tough situation for the country’s entrepreneurs - but many of them believe that the government's promises of a quick rebound after the epidemic passes will come to fruition.

Cui Kexu on Saturday (Feb 15) said he knows that under normal conditions, his wine factory, cradled between mountains in Yunnan province, can survive for about six months without operating.