Urumqi ensures medicine, food supply amid resurgence of COVID-19 (6)

Buyers load vegetables onto a truck at the vegetable trading center of the Xinjiang Jiuding farm produce wholesale market in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 1, 2020. Urumqi in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has worked to ensure sufficient medicine and food supply amid a resurgence of COVID-19 infections. On Saturday, the trading volume of Xinjiang Jiuding farm produce wholesale market, the largest in the region, reached 3,412 tonnes, said Liu Guangming, general manager of Xinjiang Jiuding Agricultural Products Management Co., Ltd. Its vegetable, fruit and meat supplies account for around 85 percent in winter and 50 percent of the Xinjiang market in summer. Currently, it is open 24 hours to meet the demand of local residents. (Xinhua/Song Yanhua)