• Apple's main iPhone maker Foxconn got the green light to reopen two major plants at Zhengzhou and Shenzhen
• General Motors said it would restart production from February 15 in China
• Chinese President Xi Jinping said the government would try and prevent large-scale layoffs
• British Airways has cancelled mainland China flights until end of March
• Japanese wireless carrier NTT Docomo and Sony pulled out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Amazon, LG Electronics,Ericsson and Nvidia have already withdrawn from the MWC