BEIJING: A recovery in China’s trade growth is not sustainable unless the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic is brought under control globally, the East Asian country’s minister of industry and information technology warned on Wednesday.

A worker wearing a face masks packages toy cars at the Mendiss toy factory in Shantou, southern China's Guangdong province on May 20, 2020. Chinese factory activity continued to expand in April, data showed on April 30, but analysts warned that the outlook remained clouded by battered overseas demand as the rest of the world struggles to overcome the coronavirus pandemic. / AFP / NOEL CELIS

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