Japan’s Toyota and Germany’s Volkswagen are gradually returning their factories to China after a few-week break due to the corona.
Toyota announced today that it is preparing to resume operations at its plant in Changchun, Jilin Province, one of China’s largest auto manufacturing centers, after production halted on March 14, CNN reports.
“However, the timing of the full resumption of production has yet to be determined,” the Japanese automaker said in a statement.
Volkswagen, on the other hand, has already restarted production today at its Changchun factories, which had also been closed since the middle of last month, but its Shanghai plant, which it runs in partnership with Chinese state-owned automaker SAIC, remains closed.
“We are in the phase of assessing the feasibility of resuming production at the Shanghai plant,” Volkswagen said, Tanjug reported.
Reuters reported that Tesla was also preparing to resume production at its Shanghai plant today after a three-week shutdown, but no one at the company, led by the world’s richest man Elon Musk, returned calls from CNN seeking to confirm that information.
China’s worst wave of the Covid epidemic in two years has led Chinese authorities to tighten the policy of reducing the country’s corona to zero and lock down several major cities, forcing tens of millions of people to stay in their homes.
