The chemical plant, which makes polystyrene products, was being reopened after India began to relax a nationwide lockdown imposed on March 25 to contain the spread of the COVID-19.
The central bank will take measures to stabilize prices, as "we believe that China will never have large-scale inflation," said Fan.
The central bank will likely continue to drain funds from the financial system this week as liquidity conditions improve, China Securities said in an analysis note.
The city's urban area is surrounded by mines in the east, south and west, while in the north the formerly barren Xiangshan Mountain has become a forestry park as a result of decades of tree-planting projects by the local government.
The city plans to use the festival as a starting point to help develop a "winter tourism" brand.
The central government seeks the best for Hong Kong, stressing social stability, essential for economic development, and rule of law, essential for social development. Beijing will defer to the local Hong Kong government as much as possible and as long as possible, thus sustaining the "one country, two systems" policy.
北京肺疼背疼
The central government has earmarked more than 1.4 trillion yuan (5 billion) this year for healthcare, Song Qichao, deputy director of the Ministry of Finance's Social Security Department, said at a joint news conference on Thursday with the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
The challenge of ‘induced demand’
The central bank has to maintain a balance between supporting economic growth and preventing fast price increases, they said. "China has no foundation of sustainable inflation or deflation, but we need to watch out for the change in expectations," said Sun Guofeng, head of the Monetary Policy Department of the People's Bank of China.
The central bank says it plans to be "patient" about future rate hikes in light of "global economic and financial developments and muted inflation pressures." Its benchmark short-term rate will remain in a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent after having been raised four times last year.