Economic Watch: China carefully returns to work amid anti-epidemic battle

Workers maintain the machinery at a workshop of a branch of Nanning Sugar Industry Co., Ltd. in Nanning, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Feb. 10, 2020. Chinese authorities are carefully balancing efforts to control the novel coronavirus epidemic and minimize its impact on the economy as millions of people head back to work Monday after an extended holiday. (Xinhua/Lu Boan)