{"id":1345,"date":"2020-01-30T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/en\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2020-01-30T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T19:45:47","slug":"the-boc-blast-345-update-china-extends-lunar-new-year-holidays-to-contain-coronavirus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/the-boc-blast-345-update-china-extends-lunar-new-year-holidays-to-contain-coronavirus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"The BOC Blast 345 &#8211; UPDATE China extends Lunar New Year holidays to contain coronavirus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Imagen1-3-1024x243.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1346 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/243;\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE &#8211; China extends Lunar New Year holidays to <br \/>\ncontain coronavirus outbreak &#8211; updated Jan 30, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Update:\nthe Chinese government has extended CNY holidays in China, in order to help\nkeep people safe and contain the coronavirus. A few additional China\nCities\/Provinces, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, have extended\ntheir earliest permissible dates for businesses to resume operations. The\nGeneral Office of the State Council said in its announcement that the measure\nis taken to effectively reduce mass gatherings, block the spread of the\nepidemic, and to better safeguard the safety and health of the people.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>All\nbusinesses, including our industry, are mandatorily required to obey the posted\nclosings (below). <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Our\norigin offices in China will resume operations as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>February 10 &#8211; Shanghai, Ningbo,\nShenzhen, Xiamen, Fuzhou and Qingdao<\/li><li>February 3 &#8211; the remainder of\nChina not listed above<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>Please\nnote that the above list is subject to change according to government\nannouncements that may follow.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In order\nto minimize operational impact, within reason (whilst keeping in mind the\ncontainment of virus outbreak), we have limited staff working from home to\nattend to bookings \/ urgent issues where required. This arrangement applies to\nlocations that will remain closed next week. Please note, however, that many\ncompanies, such as shippers, are simply remaining closed until the dates listed\nabove, so gathering information and documents is difficult.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Our team\nin Taiwan resumed work today (January 30), and Hong Kong resumed operations\nyesterday (January 29), with special arrangements to minimize exposure to the\nvirus (e.g. staff to work from home or flexible hours in office for remainder\nof this week). <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Your\nunderstanding and patience is appreciated. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>Please contact your BOC Representative if you have questions.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Imagen4.jpg-1024x94.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1247 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/94;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE &#8211; China extends Lunar New Year holidays to contain coronavirus outbreak &#8211; updated Jan 30, 2020 Update: the Chinese government has extended CNY holidays in China, in order to help keep people safe and contain the coronavirus. A few additional China Cities\/Provinces, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang, have extended their earliest permissible dates for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-boc-blast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bocintl.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}