The Zhoushan Municipal Investment Promotion Center recently launched an online investment promotion platform to help local government departments and enterprises communicate with potential investors amid the COVID-19 epidemic.

The platform has 10 independent online negotiating rooms for investment promotion institutions throughout the city.

Zhoushan, a prefecture-level archipelago-based city in East China's Zhejiang province, has been striving to prevent the coronavirus from affecting economic development while simultaneously protecting locals and investors from infection.

"My colleagues and I just arranged an online meeting with a manager at Qingdao Huicheng Environmental Technology Co through the online platform to discuss an investment project funded by the company," said Yang Daibin, deputy director of the Daishan county investment promotion center. "The company is involved in the petrochemical industry, which is a leading industry in our county."

According to Yang, the center has used the platform to negotiate with over 40 potential investors with the help of the platform in recent days.

"The county's investment promotion center has attached great importance to the project funded by our company and has provided us with excellent services," said Lin Han, deputy general manager of Qingdao Huicheng. "We have decided to invest 200 million yuan ($28.44 million) in the county."