BEIJING - China will cut some pension contributions and insurance fees to help companies affected to the coronavirus outbreak, state television quoted a cabinet meeting as saying on Tuesday.

Companies in Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak, will be exempted from paying pensions, jobless insurance and work injury insurance from February to June, it said.

The government will keep the minimum purchase price for rice stable this year, it said.

It will also accelerate hog production and increase state reserves of frozen pork, it added.

(Reporting by Colin Qian and Kevin Yao; Editing by Andrew Heavens) ((judy.hua@thomsonreuters.com; 8610-6627 1297; Reuters Messaging: judy.hua.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))