HUAWEI Technologies Co. said yesterday it had resumed production of goods including consumer devices and carrier equipment, and operations are running normally. The company restarted manufacturing in line with a special exemption that allows certain critical industries to remain in operation.

The spokesman said most of the production was in Dongguan in Guangdong Province.

Other companies have also kept production running, in some cases even through Chinese New Year, in a sign of the critical importance placed on the tech supply chain.

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC), a State maker of flash memory chips based in Wuhan — the city where the virus outbreak originated — confirmed yesterday that it has not yet ceased production.

“At present, production and operations at YMTC are proceeding normally and in an orderly manner,” a company spokesman wrote in a statement yesterday.

The spokesman added that no factory employees have been confirmed as infection cases, and that the company has enacted certain isolation measures and partitions to ensure the safety of employees.

Chinese media reported that the chipmaker did not cease operations over the Lunar New Year holiday.

Meanwhile Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) also kept production running throughout the holiday break.

In a post on social media yesterday, the company said that it organized a work group before the Chinese New Year to ensure the plants could stay open, while protecting the safety of employees and adhering to government regulations.(SD-Agencies)