The move will help relieve the burden on Hong Kong's regular force, which has been dealing with mass protests and intense clashes with radicals for more than five months, Cheung said at a Legislative Council meeting.
The move came amid surging natural gas demand in China as millions of households switched to gas from coal for heating this winter to help combat air pollution.
The move was supported by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the China Satellite Navigation Office, according to a statement published by China North Industries Group Corp, the country's biggest developer of land armaments and the first chair unit of the mechanism.
The move came after two people, who were quarantined in a same Thai hotel with an infected French woman, tested positive for COVID-19.
The move is aimed at preventing the base from overcrowding, which has been commonplace during previous holidays.
The monetary authorities reiterated in the report that the digital renminbi is only to replace a portion of the cash in circulation, or M0, and it is for retail use.
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The monetary policy transmission mechanisms will be further smoothed out while the proportion of direct financing will be increased to make financing more accessible and affordable for the private sector and small businesses, according to a statement issued after the meeting.
The modernization, initiated in January 2014, was designed to expand the product slate by producing petrochemicals – including polypropylene, benzene and elemental sulfur – while reducing the output of effluent discharge, CNPC stated in the press release.
The move places Brazil in a growing list of nations that have directed staggering amounts of money to protect their economies and prop up their health systems from the coronavirus outbreak.
The monetary policy should "maintain strategic focus", keeping it prudent while the liquidity should be at a reasonably adequate level, it said.