The group's flat sheet ceramic membrane and related equipment, effective in containing particles, colloid, and microorganism, is essential for medical wastewater handling system, according to CNBM. The group's subsidiary Shandong Industrial Ceramic Research & Design Institute Co Ltd has stepped up production to supply for hospitals and medical centers across the country.

Zhou Yuxian, chairman of CNBM, said the company will pay close attention to changing demand from the market and the reactions of companies from the upstream and downstream supply chain, under the premise that the company will roll out measures to prevent workplace contagion and to ensure their staff's safety.

To date, central SOEs are resuming work in batches in an orderly manner while preventing workplace contagion, which is important to both economic development and epidemic control, according to SASAC.

Up to Feb 19, more than 80 percent of over 20,000 manufacturing subsidiaries under the 96 central SOEs have resumed production, data from SASAC show.