"Phones become our security blanket," Wortmann says.
沃特曼说“手机成了我们的安全毯”。
She huddled herself in the blanket.
她用毯子紧紧裹住自己。
I like my blanket!
我喜欢我的毯子！
As autumn blankets Yuhuan in Taizhou city, Zhejiang province, the Yuhuan Wendan honey pomelos flood the market.
浙江省台州市玉环市的秋天，玉环文丹蜜柚充斥着市场。
Quanzhou Jiechao Langren Clothing has now shifted part of its operations to making heated vests, long-sleeved clothes and blankets.
泉州捷超浪人服饰有限公司现已将部分业务转移到生产保暖背心、长袖衣服和毛毯上。
Household solar energy equipment, electric blankets, laser cutting machines and the products related to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar have gained popularity among overseas consumers, according to data released by Alibaba.
阿里巴巴发布的数据显示，家用太阳能设备、电热毯、激光切割机以及与卡塔尔国际足联世界杯相关的产品在海外消费者中越来越受欢迎。
In the first three quarters, the turnover of domestic heating appliances, including electric water heaters and electric blankets, surged dramatically due to the increase in natural gas price.
前三季度，由于天然气价格上涨，包括电热水器和电热毯在内的家用供暖设备的营业额大幅飙升。
The first batch of provisions arrived in Wuhan, Hubei's capital city, on Tuesday night, bringing 40 types of daily necessities like electric blankets, cotton slippers, napkins, towels, combs and laundry detergent.
Democratic FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra said the penalty provided "blanket immunity" for Facebook executives "and no real restraints on Facebook's business model" and does "not fix the core problems that led to these violations.
Designed by Laurel Nano-Synthetic Material (Jiangsu) Co. , Ltd, this project utilizes a series of incubators, insulation blankets and covers made by flexible ultra-thin materials (thickness: 6mm).
"They just made this blanket announcement that everybody was getting laid off," said the employee.
Users received a disposable bed sheet, pillow cover and blanket before they climbed into the capsule for a refreshing nap.
Zhejiang Truelove Fashion Home Textile Co Ltd, another exhibitor at the fair, attracted visitors with their vibrant and intricately patterned blankets.
Household solar energy panels, electric blankets, laser-cutting machines and peripheral goods related to the FIFA World Cup in Qatar were the most popular categories with overseas consumers among all China-made products, according to Alibaba.
In the first three quarters of 2022, turnover of domestic heating appliances, including electric water heaters and electric blankets, soared dramatically due to natural gas price hikes.
Household solar energy panels, electric blankets, laser cutting machines and peripheral goods related to the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Qatar are some of the most popular categories with overseas consumers among all China-made products, said Alibaba.
"Small-sized air blowers with lower price and electric blankets with lower energy consumption are popular among European clients.
China's export volume of electric heaters, electric blankets and other heating appliances has sharply risen so far this year, Yicai reported on Monday, quoting the China Household Electrical Appliances Association.
China's export of products in markets including air conditioners, electric water heaters, electric heaters, electric blankets and electric hair driers have seen year-on-year increase this year, especially electric heaters, electric blankets as well as air source heat pumps.
In the first seven months, the export of electric blankets to the EU rose 97 percent year-on-year.
"Kin Phea, director-general of the International Relations Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, said the RCEP is instrumental in subverting creeping unilateralism because it pulls all bilateral free trade agreements into one economic sphere, under one blanket trade ruling.
"RCEP is instrumental in subverting creeping unilateralism because it pulls all bilateral free trade agreements into one economic sphere, under one blanket trade ruling," Phea added.
Nevertheless, the actual adjustment is likely to be more moderate, she said, adding a mandatory blanket rate reduction across all outstanding residential mortgages is also unlikely.
AliExpress said sales of air fryers rose by 162 percent year-on-year in Spain, while Chinese manufacturers of heating appliances, including electric blankets, saw impressive growth in exports to Europe in 2022, as the continent faced an energy crisis as natural gas prices soared.
In addition, Chinese manufacturers of heating appliances, including electric blankets, saw impressive growth in exports to Europe last year, as the continent faced an energy crisis due to surging natural gas prices.
com, Alibaba's business-to-business platform that helps facilitate foreign trade, reported that household solar energy panels, electric blankets, laser-cutting machines and goods related to the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament in Qatar were the most popular products made in China among overseas consumers.
In the first three quarters of last year, turnover of heating appliances produced in China rose significantly, with electric blankets seeing sales growth of nearly fivefold year-on-year.
As coldness creeps into Europe, Chinese electric blankets have gained popularity because of the advantages of being low-cost andxa0energy-efficient.
Xinle, Hebei province, the hometown of electric blankets, began to develop the electric blanket industry around 1980.
There are 56 major electric blanket manufacturers with an annual sales volume of 6.9 million pieces, accounting for 40 percent of the total sales volume in China.
Among them, exports account for 36 percent of the total sales, with the blankets mainly going to Russia, the United States, Japan, Chile and other countries.
She is a solderer at an electric blanket maker in Xinle, Hebei province, about 250 kilometers southwest of downtown Beijing.
As a part of Bai's job, she needs to neatly solder the heating wire of a blanket to its coupler, a key process for making the blanket heat up when it's plugged in.
In nine hours on a typical workday, she can solder connectors on about 600 electric blankets.
"Our products sell well abroad, which gives me a sense of accomplishment and pride," Bai said, adding that she often hears from salespeople that the blankets were praised by the foreign customers.
Bai has been making blankets for over 15 years at Shijiazhuang Beijiren Electric Appliance Co, one of the major electric blanket producers in Xinle.
Of the 1.2 million blankets the company makes annually, about 97 percent are exported, including to Europe and South America, according to the company's founder, Niu Rushe, 68.
On another business trip — to Harbin, Heilongjiang province, which is one of the coldest places in China — Niu brought back an electric blanket.
He began exporting in 2005, with the first order, for 140,000 blankets, coming from Italy.
"Now some of our blankets can be remotely controlled on smartphones," Niu said, adding that blankets with the smart elements are his most popular products.
As Xinle has become a major production base for electric blankets, the industry has provided jobs for more than 11,000 residents of the city, said Zhang Haibo, head of the city's bureau for market regulation.
China's manufacturers of electric blankets, air conditioners and electric heaters are revving up production to meet the increasing foreign orders.
Statistics from the General Administration of Customs shows the electric blanket export volume reached $33.4 million from Jan to July this year, up 97 percent from 2021.
Chinese makers of heating appliances, including electric blankets and electric heaters, have seen explosive growth in exports to Europe as the continent heads into winter in the throes of an energy crisis amid rising prices of natural gas, industry experts said.
Statistics from AliExpress, Alibaba Group's business-to-customer or B2C site that sells consumer goods to overseas markets, showed sales of heating appliances, such as electric blankets, in the European market surged nearly 300 percent in September compared with that in August.
In July, the European Union's 27 member states imported 1.29 million units of electric blankets from China, an increase of 150 percent compared with 521,000 units in June, China's General Administration of Customs said.
High-quality appliances at good prices are increasingly favored by EuropeansDespite it still being summer in Europe, China's exports of heating appliances, including electric heaters, electric blankets and air source heat pumps, have witnessed explosive growth this year as the continent is in the grip of its biggest energy crisis in decades, with natural gas supplies from Russia becoming volatile, industry experts said.
China's General Administration of Customs said the country's exports of electric blankets and electric heaters skyrocketed 97 percent and 23 percent year-on-year, respectively, in the first seven months, given that European consumers are expanding their purchases of heating appliances ahead of the coming winter.
There is surging demand for imported electric heaters, especially in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Germany, while demand for electric blanket imports more than doubled in Greece, Italy, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands.
Increasing interest in exploring great outdoors during Labor Day holidayLast year's Labor Day holiday was marked by plaid picnic blankets but this year's was overtaken by camping tents, an industry insider was cited as saying by news website xinhuanet.
"In addition to camping necessities, the camping base offers all things that you can possibly think of－earplugs, air mattresses, blankets, mosquito repellent, toiletries, meats, barbecue facilities, beer and ice buckets.
For instance, travelers can buy or use credits to redeem some in-flight products such as blankets on their official websites.
Ranging from fashionable household items to clothing for the 2019 spring season, the products include woven scarves, clothes and blankets as well as handmade hats and key chains.
The attacks by the United States on Huawei Technologies in the past few days show its failure in threatening European allies to get a blanket ban on the Chinese telecom giant's 5G technology.
Given a 1 percentage point blanket RRR cut, the central bank would inject 1.5 trillion yuan ($210 billion) worth of liquidity into banks, the report said.