As a newcomer to the China International Import Expo this year held in Shanghai from Nov 5 to 10, Cardinal Health showcased a range of its newest vascular intervention and patient recovery innovations to both domestic and global visitors, while it also unveiled a new research partnership with BrosMed Medical Device Co Ltd aimed at developing the next generation of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) balloon products.

That number ballooned to roughly 1 million by noon, almost 10 times that of average daily volume generated through online channels.

Student loan debt, which has ballooned to about $1.5 trillion against the backdrop of state budget cuts on universities, is second only to the $9 trillion mortgage debt.

An employee of China Electronics Technology Group Corp checks a balloon before its ascent for an experiment.

Its trade volume has ballooned by nearly 10 times in the past five years, reaching 1.92 trillion yuan (about $269.14 billion) in 2021.

Exports of chemicals, plastic and rubber products, base metal products, and mechanical and electrical products to India, as well as exports of chemicals, mechanical and electrical products, and textile raw materials to Brazil, have also ballooned.

"Such tensions ballooned into a major public outcry in November, when cosmetics giant L'Oreal Group fell afoul with the livestreaming duo over a promise of "deepest discounts", which failed to materialize.

Theme parks in China also launched diverse activities like balloon releases and firework shows to fuel the day of love.

Though the number of coffee drinkers in China has ballooned in recent years, most coffee consumers are from well-developed tier-1 and tier-2 cities like Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen of Guangdong province, and this explains why top domestic coffee brands like Manner Coffee and M Stand have just a few stores in lower-tier cities.

Halis Aydogan, an official of the Turkish company Pasha Balloon Tours, told Xinhua that in Cappadocia, famous for its hot air balloon tours, Chinese tourists accounted for nearly half of some 600,000 balloon trip takers in 2019.

"As the expansion of LNG receiving capacity outpaces the growth of contracts, the gap between China's LNG contract supply and import terminal capacity is expected to balloon, which may lead to more contracts in the near term.

From 1985 to 2019, the number of ceramics-making companies in Dehua ballooned from a few dozen to over 3,000.

Some flying sports such as parachute jumping, stunt flying, hot balloon rides, and gliders have become increasingly popular, particularly among thrill-seeking Chinese consumers.

By 2020, China's senior living sector is about to reach a market scale worth 7.7 trillion yuan ($1 trillion), and further balloon to 22.3 trillion yuan by 2030, a report published by CPIC Allianz Health Insurance Co Ltd said.

The remote-controlled balloon wowed the cosmopolitan crowd of onlookers at the Dubai Mall.

Besides, extreme sports like hiking, scuba diving, surfing, parachute jumping, and hot-air balloon flights are becoming popular among Chinese tourists visiting overseas destinations.

For example, many Chinese visitors would like to experience hot-air balloon rides in Cappadocia, Turkey, go parachute jumping at Pattaya in Thailand, try out scuba diving at some tropical islands, or go skiing in Switzerland.

Global interest in homegrown charging piles for new energy vehicles has ballooned as China cements its leading position in the global NEV market with exports set to almost double this year, experts and industry executives said.

The value of these shares had ballooned to nearly $7.7 billion by the end of last year.

Its sales have plummeted in recent years as development and manufacturing costs ballooned.

Looking ahead, IDC expected VR shipments in 2021 to reach 8.4 million units and, by the end of 2025, to balloon to 26.7 million shipments, with a compound annual growth rate of 36 percent.

A significant increase in credit and extreme optimism led to the formation of Japan's economic bubble in the 1980s, which later ballooned due to a loose monetary policy, the pro-cyclical effect between financial and economic activities, and a sustained rally in land prices prompted by the land tax system.

With the local real estate bubble continuing to balloon, banks had poured loans into the province, posing serious risks of default if the bubbles burst.

According to banking executives, Chinese companies have seen international trade and investment balloon in scale, but its complexity has also risen, as the discrepancy in standards and regulation across economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative poses a number of challenges, including the absence of a unified communications framework and compliance issues.

China's money market fund sector, already the second largest globally, has ballooned in recent years as people sought to invest their savings in higher-return, but relatively safe, products.

The CSRC said in May that investigations found the company fabricated overseas business contracts and trade transactions so that its profits ballooned by 260 million yuan ($38.1 million) from 2015 to September, 2016.

The resolution passed by the United States House of Representatives last week claiming that "China used a high-altitude surveillance balloon over US territory" and sensationalizing the "China threat" theory is "nothing but malicious hype and political manipulation", according to a statement by the National People's Congress Foreign Affairs Committee.