Employees carefully monitor production of face masks at a workshop run by Xingye Light Industrial Products Co, on March 31. The company is the only mask manufacturer based in Baotou, in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. To help the resumption of schools in the city, which started on March 30, the company started to speed up its output the previous fortnight. As of March 31, a total of 120,000 masks produced by Xingye Light Industrial Products Co had been distributed to schools that had restarted class. [Photo/Baotou Daily]

Workers package masks for students and teachers in Baotou city, on March 30. In order to ensure the safety of school staff, Xingye Light Industrial Products Co donated 10,000 masks to the education system of Baotou. [Photo/Baotou Daily]