Nirsevimab, the world's first broadly protective option against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) designed for infants, has been granted the breakthrough therapy designation by the Center for Drug Evaluation of the National Medical Products Administration.

Nirsevimab是世界上第一种针对婴儿设计的呼吸道合胞病毒（RSV）的广泛保护性选择，已被国家医疗产品管理局药物评估中心授予突破性治疗指定。

For instance, the new drug application of an oral innovative drug for lung cancer was given a priority review designation, leading to simultaneous submissions to National Drug Authority in China and globally.

The application was granted priority review status and a breakthrough therapy designation by the country's drug review authority, according to the company.

The orally taken drug has been granted orphan drug and fast track designation by the US FDA.

It was granted priority review status and a breakthrough therapy designation by the country's drug review authority, the company said.

The orally taken drug has been granted orphan drug designation and fast track designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

A new application for the drug has also been submitted in China and it was granted priority review status and a breakthrough therapy designation by the country's drug review authority, according to the company.

US District Judge Rudolph Contreras on Friday issued a preliminary injunction to halt the restriction, saying the designation of Xiaomi as a Chinese military company is "deeply flawed" and lacks "substantial evidentiary support".

In the US, the drug was granted fast track designation for the treatment of pancreatic and non-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in April 2020, the company said.

Junshi Biosciences, a leading innovation-driven biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development and commercialization of novel therapies, announced on Thursday the US Food and Drug Administration has recently granted Breakthrough Therapy designation to its cancer drug Toripalimab for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, or cancer that occurs in the nasopharynx.

The BTD designation will allow it to work with the FDA closely to bring therapy to patients worldwide expeditiously, he said.

Sun's case was handed over to the People's Procuratorate of Jinan in east China's Shandong Province for review and prosecution upon the designation of the SPP after the National Supervisory Commission concluded the investigation, it said.

The designation means the product can be sold in the country as a medicine, the drug's manufacturer said on Wednesday.

Xu Shan, secretary-general of the China Association for Medical Devices Industry, estimated that more than 100 Chinese companies have obtained CE marking by the European Union for their novel coronavirus test kits, or the permits for the products' commercial launch in the EU and other markets recognizing the designation.

By March 19, more than 64 Chinese in vitro diagnostic device producers had obtained the designation, which is also widely recognized in Southeast Asia, Central Asia and Africa, according to the Professional Community of Experimental Medicine, a national industry organization under the National Association of Health Industry and Enterprise Management.

Among the more than 10 companies China has approved for the launch of COVID-19 detection products, about half have received CE (French for European Conformity) marking for product sales within countries and regions recognizing the designation.

The drug is the first compound discovered in China to have received the FDA's Breakthrough Therapy designation, representing a significant milestone for not only BeiGene but China's pharmaceutical industry.

In November, Chinese biomedicine company BeiGene Ltd's cancer treatment Brukinsa (zanubrutinib) capsules gained Accelerated Approval by the FDA under a Breakthrough Therapy designation to treat Mantle Cell lymphoma.

The treatment was also granted Orphan Drug designation, "which provides incentives to assist and encourage the development of drugs for rare diseases", the FDA said in a statement.

"Huawei urges the FCC and Chairman Ajit Pai to refrain from finalizing its inappropriate designation of Huawei and to rethink its profoundly mistaken order," the Shenzhen-based company added.

The designation and subsequent activation of the succession procedure must be completed by October 2022.

Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical Group Co Ltd announced on Sunday its experimental drug ORIN1001 has received fast-track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of patients with relapsed, refractory and metastatic breast cancer, including triple-negative breast cancer, or TNBC.

A remedy that receives fast track designation may be eligible for frequent communication with the FDA, priority review, potential accelerated approval according to data and rolling submission, which allows a company to submit completed sections of its Biologic License Application or New Drug Application for review by the FDA, rather than waiting until every section of the NDA is completed before the entire application can be submitted.

A self-certification procedure called Organization Designation Authorization came under scrutiny at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee's aviation subcommittee in Washington.

"FAA now delegates more of its aircraft certification to approved manufacturers through its congressionally authorized Organization Designation Authorization program or ODA.

At the end of 2021, the country had a total of 330,000 high-tech enterprises and 4,762 "little giants", a State designation for small and medium-sized enterprises that specialize in strategically important industries such as software or artificial intelligence, spent a high proportion of operating capital on R&D, and are able to aid the country in creating wholly domestic supply chains.

Singapore and China adopted a Joint Paper on Enhancing Environmental Cooperation in the Post-COVID-19 Era at the 16th JCBC last December, he said, adding that this cooperation can be extend to ASEAN given the designation of 2021 as the ASEAN-China Year of Sustainable Development Cooperation.

This designation is a marker for product quality and reputation, determined by the location's specific environmental and cultural factors.

Wei, 40, an inheritor of an intangible cultural heritage designation for embroidery, started working at a clothing factory in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, two decades ago.

The new plan came as this year marked the 40th anniversary of Shenzhen's designation as China's first special economic zone.

Chinese biotech company Junshi Biosciences announced on Friday that the company's domestically developed drug Toripalimab (anti-PD-1 mAb), in combination with Axitinib for treatment of mucosal melanoma, has been granted orphan drug designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

The orphan drug designation granted by the FDA is beneficial for the continuous development of the combination therapy and the enjoyment of certain policy support in terms of registration and commercialization in the US, including but not limited to tax credits for clinical trial costs, application fee waivers for new drugs and 7 years of market exclusivity without being affected by patent.

The designation will reduce R&D investment of the Combination Therapy to a certain extent and accelerate the progress of clinical trials and market registration, the company said.

The drug was also granted Fast Track designation by the FDA for the treatment of patients with WM in July 2018.

The second agreement marks China's recognition of the principle of EU designation, whereby all EU airlines will be able to fly to China from any EU member state with a bilateral air services agreement with China under which unused traffic rights are available, read the statement.

Daimler will use the EQ Power designation for plug-in hybrids while Chery will also use eQ TEC to name their car electrification system.

"With three plantsxa0- and the designation of one car line for each plantxa0- Volvo creates an efficient production structure ensuring future capacity for growth," Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said.

A few days ago, 3DBio Therapeutics, a New York-based biologics and bioprinting company, announced its AuriNovo, an investigational combination product using patients' own auricular cartilage cells to 3D-bioprint living, full-sized ear construct, received Orphan Drug designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration, a status assigned to treatments developed for rare conditions.

The CFA Institute is known for its CFA Program, which grants the CFA charter, a designation globally recognized as the gold standard in investment management.

The Big Tech boom globally as well as in China has intensified competition with traditional, systemically important entities, and authorities need to redefine the designation standards, Hu said.

"Nationally franchised banks, such as Postal Savings Bank and China Everbright Bank are candidates for D-SIB designation because they are likely to be on a shortlist of 30 candidate banks whose assets, as measured by the sum of a bank's on- and off-balance-sheet and derivative exposures, make them eligible," said Nicholas Zhu, a senior credit officer with Moody's.

The US investigation into the "renminbi undervaluation" contradicts an earlier decision by the US Treasury Department to remove China's designation as a currency manipulator in January as part of the phase one trade deal, said Ma Yu, a senior researcher at the Beijing-based China Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.

Fitch Ratings said the designation of domestic systemically important banks in China may be further delayed beyond 2020 as priorities shift to stabilizing the financial system and supporting economic growth.

"The US dropped the currency manipulator designation the same day that a Chinese trade delegation, led by Vice-Premier Liu He, arrived in Washington for the signing of a phase-one trade deal at the White House, scheduled for Wednesday.

"Designation was a blatant/errant political act," Sobel said on social media on Monday.

This came after the United States has dropped its designation of China as a currency manipulator.

""Most investors and traders do not find meaningful the designation of currency manipulator and most believe it is unlikely to foster successful negotiations," Andrew Karolyi, a finance professor at Cornell University, told China Daily.

The US Treasury uses three criteria to apply the designation: having large trade surpluses with the US, having a large current account surplus exceeding 3 percent of GDP and actively intervening in the currency markets.

In a response to the designation, China's central bank refuted the unilateral move, saying the label does not meet the quantitative criteria for the so-called "currency manipulator" set by the US Treasury.

The US Treasury designation was seen by analysts as a new excuse for more protectionist measures.

"Getting CFA designation is not just good for your career, but helps build a more sustainable financial business in China," Forfang told China Daily.

"Obtaining the CFA designation enabled my key career transition of becoming a trader," Zhai Chenxi, CFA, vice-president of Hubei-based TF Securities, said at a forum.

CFA is a designation especially useful in the investment management profession.

The national park, also known as Sanjiangyuan, received official designation as one of the first five in China in October 2021, becoming the world's highest and largest national park with an expanse of 190,700 square kilometers.

The prosecution was brought by a procuratorate in the city of Xiangyang, Hubei Province, following the conclusion of an investigation into Wang's case by the National Commission of Supervision and upon the designation of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Upon the designation of the SPP, the Zhangjiakou Municipal People's Procuratorate in Hebei Province reviewed the case and initiated a public prosecution against Yu at the Intermediate People's Court of Zhangjiakou.