According to the Nantong Epidemic Prevention and Control Center on May 1 the city's bath centers, massage parlors and other places in the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures to resume business in an orderly manner. Practitioners must complete the entire vaccination, hold a 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate and the implementation of the "three code" joint inspection, temperature measurement, wearing masks and other epidemic prevention and control measures before going to work.

Nantong, referred to as "Tong", the ancient name of Tongzhou, also known as Jinghai, Chongzhou, prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, one of the 27 cities in the central area of the Yangtze River Delta, the State Council approved the determination of the northern wing of the Yangtze River Delta economic center and modern port city. As of December 2020, Nantong has three municipal districts, one county, and three county-level cities under the jurisdiction of Nantong, with a total area of 8001 square kilometers.