Economic china`s online office and online courses are booming (afp)
Most parts of China are still closed because of the new coronavirus epidemic, and to avoid crowd gathering, authorities has begun to promote home-office policies, not only from schools, businesses, government departments and medical institutions, but also from museums and zoos.
Since the end of the extended Lunar New Year holiday in most parts of China and the start of work on February 10th, Tencent`s corporate communications and office tool, WeChat Work, has seen its services increase tenfold a year, and Alibaba`s corporate version of instant-messaging software, DingTalk, has seen its highest volume in five years, with about 200 million people using it to work at home. The Huawei WeLink platform has also grown fivefold, increasing by more than a million new users.
The online movement was also endorsed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who used Huawei WeLink to call out to Wuhan medical staff on Monday.
Mr Yang, chief executive of the iTutor Group, which runs a wide range of online courses, said most of its previous users were from first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
In addition, overcrowded hospitals also use online distal medical services to classify patients, and after the closure of cultural sites such as beijing`s imperial palace, they switch to online or virtual guided tours. People can also use community media to watch pandas at the beijing zoo, and even the Ministry of Foreign Affairs journalist meeting of the main contact with the outside world in beijing has changed to an online question-and-answer session.
While the wuhan pneumonia epidemic is expected to hurt china`s economic growth, china`s highly developed online industry and more than 850 million online consumers may be able to mitigate the impact.
The S & amp; P Global Ratings said the epidemic was expected to bring "further long-term structural changes" to China`s online economics.
