MOFCOM: No shortage of market supplies during COVID-19 epidemic  

Chinese markets had sufficient supplies during the COVID-19 epidemic, earlier this year, and the Chinese government prioritized ensuring supplies in central China's Wuhan City, the country's worst-hit region, Zhong Shan, Chinese Minister of Commerce, said at a regular press conference on Monday. 

The "nine-province joint supply mechanism" launched by the Ministry of Commerce ensured adequate supply of daily necessities in Wuhan, Zhong noted. 

During the epidemic, the Ministry of Commerce stepped up efforts to ensure market safeguard for epidemic prevention and control, and actively coordinated the supply of daily necessities.

(Cover: People buy fruits at a supermarket in Handan, north China's Hebei Province, May 12, 2020. /Xinhua)