This, however, could not stop its net loss from ballooning to $252.7 million in 2022 from $237.2 million in 2021.

然而，这并不能阻止其净亏损从2021年的2.372亿美元激增至2022年的2.527亿美元。

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.

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

A younger section of China's ballooning middle class, these sophisticated shoppers are helping to drive consumption in the country.

Travel and contact-based service consumption climbed in the first half, with dining out, communication and tourism activities ballooning, Fu said.

With Jan-July data reaching $491b, sector to upgrade consumption and industriesCompared with manufacturing and agriculture, the services sector probably never had it so good: its prominence in GDP is growing, the number of services of various kinds is ever expanding, and trade in services is ballooning, as has been highlighted by the six-day 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services－CIFTIS－that opened in Beijing on Aug 31.

External factors include a decline in the competitiveness of their own economies, resulting in frequent and ballooning current account deficits.

Total wealth of the 130 self-made female billionaires reached 3 trillion yuan in 2021, ballooning 63 percent year-on-year.

When asked whether policymakers should be concerned about the ballooning public debt, the IMF official told Xinhua that one has always to be concerned about proper management of public finance risks, and to bear in mind public debt sustainability, but at this point in time, "the very first priority is to defeat the pandemic.

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

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.

"Postpartum care helps the recovery of the ballooning womb and other organs that gave way to the growing fetus inside a woman's body.

"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.

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.

Nip and tuck, ironically enough, is a ballooning industry.

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

"We believe China will still be the fastest-growing insurance market in the world in the coming decade, driven by the high-quality growth of the country's economy, people's ballooning wealth, the market potential and the favorable policies," Yin Zhaojun, vice-president of China Life Insurance (Group) Company, told the conference on Friday.

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.

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.

China has also seen its gold bar and coin markets ballooning, with demand for the bars and coins growing from 12 tons in 2004 to 218 tons in 2022.

Some may feel complacent or elated about ballooning profits of blue chips, but a large number of them appear to be fidgety, wondering whether the recent bull run would extend to all boards of the A-share market.

For China, however, the problem is that cutting benchmark interest rates might trigger some undesirable side effects such as further ballooning of real estate bubbles and intensified capital outflow pressure.

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.

Effective implementation of a prudent and neutral monetary policy, marked by regulatory tightening and steady progress in deleveraging, is helping minimize default risk related to ballooning corporate debt.

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.

The aging trend has triggered discussions about whether China's ballooning senior population will drain public finances, strain the workforce and ultimately stymie economic growth in the coming years.

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.