We took the elevator to the tenth floor.
我们坐电梯上了第十层。
The elevator went up to the fifth floor.
电梯升到了五楼。
The elevator doors slid open, and we stepped inside.
电梯门滑开，我们走了进去。
I pressed the button for the 15th floor, and the elevator began to ascend.
我按下15楼的按钮，电梯开始上升。
She was trapped in the elevator for an hour before someone noticed her distress signal.
她在电梯里被困了一个小时，才有人注意到她的求救信号。
The elevator was equipped with a fire alarm and emergency stop button.
电梯配备了火警报警器和紧急停止按钮。
He waited patiently for the elevator to arrive on his floor.
他耐心地等待电梯来到他的楼层。
The maintenance crew was working on the elevator shaft when we heard a loud noise.
我们听到一声巨响时，维修人员正在电梯井内工作。
She used the elevator keycard to gain access to the restricted area.
她使用电梯门禁卡进入禁区。
The old elevator had a distinct creaking sound whenever it moved.
老电梯在移动时会发出明显的嘎吱声。
In case of a power outage, there's a manual release mechanism for the elevator.
万一停电，电梯有一个手动释放装置。
The passengers looked at each other nervously as the elevator lurched to a sudden stop.
当电梯突然停止时，乘客们紧张地看着彼此。
Recognized as one of the city's top shopping destinations, Saga boasts an indoor waterfall and a long elevator that moves shoppers all the way to the sixth floor.
佐贺被公认为该市的顶级购物目的地之一，拥有一个室内瀑布和一部长电梯，可以将购物者一直送到六楼。
The company has invested in Starrank, a leading Douyin partner offering integrated solutions to brands including livestreaming and KOL (key opinion leader) sourcing, and Tikin Media, an elevator advertising company with a network covering more than 100,000 elevators in over 50 cities.
该公司投资了抖音领先的合作伙伴Starrank，为包括直播和KOL（关键意见领袖）采购在内的品牌提供集成解决方案，以及电梯广告公司Tikin Media，其网络覆盖了50多个城市的10多万部电梯。
- A predicted recovery for the Chinese economy means that the Swiss elevator manufacturer Schindler is cautiously optimistic about its business outlook for 2023, the company's head told Xinhua in an interview recently.
-瑞士电梯制造商迅达公司负责人最近在接受新华社采访时表示，预计中国经济将复苏，这意味着该公司对2023年的业务前景持谨慎乐观态度。
"Founded in 1874, Schindler is a multinational company that manufactures elevators, escalators and moving walkways.
辛德勒成立于1874年，是一家跨国公司，生产电梯、自动扶梯和自动人行道。
They are: the E series, which refers to the Hailong high-rise MiC elevator solution; the S series, which refers to the Hailong high-rise steel MiC solution; and the C series, which refers to the Hailong high-rise concrete MiC solution.
它们分别是：E系列，指的是海龙高层MiC电梯解决方案；S系列，即海龙高层钢MiC解决方案；以及C系列，即海龙高层混凝土MiC解决方案。
The MiC method can be used to build a variety of structures, including commercial residential buildings, resettlement houses, apartments, hotels, schools, hospitals and also elevators.
MiC方法可用于建造各种结构，包括商品住宅、安置房、公寓、酒店、学校、医院以及电梯。
The company has started to work with Focus Media, which has strengths in advertising in elevators in office and residential buildings, officials said.
官员们表示，该公司已开始与分众传媒合作，分众传媒在办公楼和住宅楼的电梯广告方面具有优势。
The elevator business has become a new growth engine for Midea Group, China's leading home appliance manufacturer, according to the company.
该公司表示，电梯业务已成为中国领先家电制造商美的集团新的增长引擎。
Midea's building technologies division recorded a 55 percent increase in its operating revenues in the first three quarters of 2021, with the revenue of its elevator business growing 35 percent year-on-year.
2021年前三季度，美的建筑技术部门的营业收入增长了55%，电梯业务的收入同比增长了35%。
In December 2020, the group teamed up with elevator and escalator manufacturing enterprise LINVOL Elevator Co Ltd to make its first foray into the elevator market.
2020年12月，该集团与电梯和自动扶梯制造企业LINVOL电梯有限公司合作，首次进军电梯市场。
China has a huge elevator market, and foreign enterprises have taken the lion's share.
中国拥有庞大的电梯市场，外国企业占据了最大份额。
Midea is currently accelerating its key layout for the research and development as well as production of digital and intelligent elevators.
美的目前正在加快数字化和智能化电梯的研发和生产重点布局。
Miaofei Food Company on Monday signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the world's leading elevator advertising group Focus Media, in a deal valued at hundreds of millions of yuan.
妙飞食品公司周一与全球领先的电梯广告集团分众传媒签署了战略合作协议，这笔交易价值数亿元人民币。
In addition to unmanned deliveries at shopping malls, office blocks and university campuses, Meituan's delivery cars will also be able to travel up and down building elevators.
According to Airbus, HMC is now the sole composite structure supplier worldwide for its A350XWB rudder, elevator, belly fairing and S19 maintenance door work package.
For the A350XWB program, the manufacturing center delivered its 300th A350XWB elevator in May this year.
Developed by Shanghai-based company YOGO Robot, the programmed gadget can pass through security gates, use elevators and even make calls.
Elevators scan guests' faces again to verify which floor they can access and hotel room doors are opened with another face scan.
Meeting them in the elevator and talking a few minutes is his habit.
Schindler Group plans to continue expanding its branch network in China as the country's economy is substantially opening up, according to executives of the global manufacturer of elevators and escalators.
The elevator business, including elevators, escalators, access and airport solutions, will remain its largest segment in China after the details of the reorganization are decided in 12 to 18 months, whereas automobile-related technologies are set to enjoy the fastest growth, according to Guido Kerkhoff, who chairs the executive board leading the reorganization.
One will manage its elevator, auto parts and plant construction businesses, the other its steel and metals operations.
To iron out these problems, the country should further promote reform and opening-up, fuel innovation in economic growth and speed up the development of strategic industries.2009-present: Chairman and president, Harman International, Northeast Asia and China2005-08: CEO of Philips Healthcare China1998-2004: President of ABB Yuejin Motor Company1988-98: Senior executive roles with Otis/United Technologies, Carnaud Metalbox, and Schindler Elevator CompanyEducation: Bachelor and MBA degrees from American University in Washington, D. C.
By then, delivery cars will be able to go up and down the buildings through elevators, without anyone helping them to push the elevator button, he said.
Elevator maker's president is optimistic about creating the future of moving systems amid intensifying competitionFujitec Co Ltd, a Japanese elevator and escalator manufacturer, regards China as its most important market and has a big expectations for the country, according to its president and CEO, despite the intensifying competition in China's elevator market amid slowing growth.
Huasheng Fujitec Elevator Co Ltd, Fujitec's joint venture in China, will deliver three of the world's tallest elevators to a hotel to be built in the Snowland project in Chicheng county, Zhangjiakou.
Founded in 1948, Fujitec is a comprehensive manufacturer of transportation systems, covering R&D, production, marketing, installation and maintenance of elevators, escalators and moving walkways.
The number of new elevators installed in China accounted for half of the global aggregate.
Two "elevator pitches" were arranged during the conference, which allowed 22 company executives from Israel to explain their ideas for innovation, edges in technology or market advantages in fewer than three minutes each to investors and potential partners.
The company just opened its tallest elevator test tower globally and a new elevator plant with a total investment of 800 million yuan ($126.6 million) in South China's Zhongshan city in its latest move to tap the world's largest elevator market.
China has ambitious plans for urbanization, and elevators will play an important part, said Hiesinger, adding that this means a "tremendous growth market.
"He was glad to see that the government work report this year encourages existing communities to install elevators, while the State Council issued guidelines to improve the quality and safety of elevators.
This normally drives the relevance for home elevators," he said.
Germany's thyssenkrupp Elevator, a diversified industrial group with a history of more than 200 years, on Friday opened its new plant and a test tower in Zhongshan, Guangdong province, a traditional manufacturing city in the Pearl River Delta region.
The company said it will continue its investment in China as the country's demand for high-quality elevators keeps increasing because of its rapid urbanization, said a company executive.
"China has become our largest market in Asia and the elevator business is our focus of future investment," said Jurgen Bohler, CEO of thyssenkrupp Elevator (China).
"We have continued to increase our investment in China as the country is the world's largest new installation elevator market and a strategic market for thyssenkrupp," Bohler said.
The tower provides a testing environment for a high-speed elevator with a speed of up to 18 meters per second that thyssenkrupp is developing.
In the future, it will also be used to test the world's first ropeless elevator system developed by the company.
"As an important part of thyssenkrupp's global manufacturing base, the completion of the new Zhongshan plant and the test tower serves as the new driving force for the in-depth development of the company worldwide," said Andreas Schierenbeck, CEO of thyssenkrupp Elevator.
The company carried out a back-door listing via the SJEC Corporation, an elevator and escalator maker already listed.
The Chinese joint venture, with Airbus holding a 29 percent of stake, began with producing A320 components in 2009, including rudders and elevators.
The Hafei manufacturing plant is responsible for manufacturing and assembling complete sets of elevators, in addition to the rudders and other mid-section A350 parts.
Echoing the sentiment, Sally Loh, president for China of United States-based elevator manufacturing company Otis Worldwide Corp, said the Chinese market is a key contributor to the group's global performance.
With the trial run of Egypt's first electrified light rail line (LRT) last year, more than 180 escalators and elevators provided by American multinational Otis Worldwide Corporation for the project were put into operation.
The multinational also supplied about 50 elevators and escalators for one of the tallest building in East Africa -- the new headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia inaugurated last year, among other projects.
The company has provided vertical transport solutions and dispatched technical teams to support elevator installation for many signature projects, she noted.
Echoing that sentiment, Sally Loh, president for China unit at Otis Worldwide Corp, a US elevator manufacturer, said the Chinese market is a key contributor to the group's global business performance.
A freight train loaded with auto parts, home appliances, textiles, elevator equipment and other goods departed from the Horgos railway port in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Sunday, heading for Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
The Three Gorges ship elevator operated 2,206 times, allowing 2,232 vessels to pass through, with a total throughput of 2.57 million tons in the same period.
"China remains the elevator industry's largest new equipment market, with substantial opportunities for service businesses.
The country is a very strong long-term market for many US businesses, with continuing urbanization, infrastructure building and urban renewal," said Judy Marks, chairwoman, president and CEO of Otis Worldwide Corp, the Connecticut-based elevator manufacturer.
It assesses the building for visitor flow, fire prevention, noise levels, use of elevators and escalators, disinfection work and the efficiency of its water pipes.
Xu said the introduction of such a novel system would trigger far-reaching innovation in urban intelligent management and services in the city, which is also home to a subway network totaling 729 kilometers and boasts 240,000 elevators and escalators.
Perry Zheng, president for China operations at Otis Corp, a US manufacturer of elevators and escalators, said China is a critical part of the group's global footprint and the largest new elevator equipment market in the world.
The freight train carried 100 TEUs of goods, such as elevators, medical equipment, and auto parts, with a total weight of more than 880 tons and a total value of 18.7 million yuan ($2.76 million).
People can see a contactless intelligent access control system with a health monitoring function, a real-time visual rescue service of a smart elevator and a manufacturing robot arm.
According to this year's Government Work Report, the country will begin the renovation of 39,000 old urban residential communities and support the upgrading of plumbing and wiring and the installation of elevators in old residential buildings.
根据今年的政府工作报告，中国将开始改造3.9万个老旧城市住宅区，并支持老旧住宅楼进行管道和电线升级以及电梯安装。
Companies in the Zhongguancun science and technology area in Beijing have invented several products, such as AI temperature testing system, smart robots, warning platform designed to limit human movement, elevator controlled by voice, and intelligent voice electronic medical record system.
Cheng added that offline media also boasts great potential, as can be seen by Alibaba's investment in Focus Media－a major offline advertising solutions provider－and Baidu's investment into Xinchao, a company focusing on elevator screen ads.
Beijing will start construction of more than 400 elevators in old residential buildings.
For instance, the hassle of choosing room types, floors, even locations (such as closer to the gym, far away from the elevator), can now be achieved with a few taps on a mobile device through Hilton Honors app, or via local partnerships with WeChat, where the hotel giant runs a mini program that facilitates everything from booking to payment.
They have showed advantages in terms of infrastructure, such as clear floor height, raised floor and gross floor area (GFA) per elevator, and have gained popularity among quality-sensitive tenants, he said.
Shenzhen-listed Suzhou Shijia Science and Technology Co, which provides support services for global elevator enterprises, semiconductor devices, communication devices and other fields, saw its net profit in the first half soar 350.88 percent year-on-year.
On its first day, enthusiastic visitors had to wait for three hours before they could take the elevator of the tallest skyscraper in the country to reach the bookstore 239 meters above the ground floor.
Frayne Olson, North Dakota State University crop marketing economist, said most farmers and grain elevators in the US have permanent storage facilities for their corn, wheat and soybeans.
One typical example is the international use of multilevel storage shelves that are popular in Chinese e-commerce warehouses, and elevators that allow quick access to parcels on each shelf.
Sally Loh, president of Otis Worldwide Corp China, a US high-tech elevator manufacturer, said that China remains "a strong market for many US businesses, as the country is pushing forward its infrastructure construction and modernization".
Zou Kuan, vice-president of Shenyang-based elevator manufacturer Yuanda Intellectual Industry Group Co Ltd, said that in addition to relying on ocean shipping routes, the company uses the China-Europe freight train service to ship its products from Shenyang to various locations such as Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk in Russia.
Forklift truck maker Jungheinrich, Thyssenkrupp's system engineering and elevator businesses and premium carmaker BMW were also among the nearly 200 companies affected.
Upon opening the door, they will likely see a gleaming, android-like advanced service robot, which must have reached the room using the elevator independently.
After orders are placed, these devices take elevators and navigate their way from restaurants to competitors' rooms.
STEP Electric, the elevator control system and industrial robot manufacturer set up in 1995, made breakthroughs in motion control algorithms last year and saw net profit reaching 76.52 million yuan in first three quarters of 2020, a year-on-year increase of 36.64 percent, Ji Yi, president of the company's chairwoman, told Jiefang Daily.
Artificial intelligence expert SenseTime has entered into a strategic partnership in Shanghai with Swiss elevator leader Schindler to develop an escalator safety intelligent response system.
The pair vowed to use AI to detect and manage prospective safety risks or concerns embedded in elevator systems while ensuring operational efficacy at the same time.
Elevators are seen as one of the places with higher infection risk for the novel coronavirus, as people may contract the virus via touch.
According to a CNN report, the system consists of a panel fitted alongside existing elevator buttons.
It allows users to select a floor by pointing their finger at each button from a distance of 10 to 15 millimeters, triggering an infrared signal which tells the elevators where they want to go.
New technologies bringing meals, medicines, other orders to customers over barriers without cross-infection hazardsIn an industrial park in Beijing, workers were surprised to find the food they ordered online being delivered by a robot, which can take elevators and navigate all the way from a restaurant in an underground floor to an office on the 15th floor.
Robot doctor, rapid temperature measurement device, mobile phone or voice control elevator, non-contact food delivery and disinfection robot are some of the important applications of cutting-edging technologies.
He predicted that more AI temperature testing systems, smart robots, warning platform designed to limit human movement, voice-controlled elevators, and intelligent voice electronic medical record systems will be widely used in the domestic market soon.
The ministry will actively advance city upgrades, which include adding elevators and resolving parking difficulties in old residential communities, building more elderly and children-friendly facilities, and creating barrier-free environments.
Some 32,000 elevators, 746,000 new parking spaces, and 14,000 elderly and child care facilities were added.
A senior legislator has urged the government to pay more attention to the management of elevators in residential buildings as the safety risks they pose increase with age.
Examples of special equipment include boilers, gas storage and pipes, elevators and passenger ropeways such as chair lifts and cable cars.
"The potential safety hazards of residential elevators cannot be ignored.
In recent years, problems with aging residential elevators have gradually emerged," Xiao said, citing Zhejiang and Fujian as examples.
Zhejiang has 86,000 residential elevators that have been in operation for more than 15 years, while Fujian has 32,000 such elevators.
The figures represent roughly 10 percent of their total elevators, he said.
Due to the lack of mechanisms to assess the safety risks of the elevators, many of them operate with hazards for an extended period of time, he said.
The vice-chairman noted various factors that have been hindering the safety management of aging residential elevators.
Furthermore, in some major cities, owners are not so willing to provide necessary funds to repair and maintain elevators.
Though some local governments offer subsidies and even pay all the expenses needed to upgrade some elevators in residential buildings that have no property management services or maintenance funds, only a small number of aging elevators have been upgraded, Xiao said.
"Some members of the Standing Committee of the NPC and officials from local authorities suggested improving the regulations on installing barrier-free facilities in old residential communities and elevators for the elderly," said Xu Hui, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee, who made a report on the draft law amendment in Beijing on Monday.
Collection of opinions enables legislators to help find problems, improve livelihoodsAfter reviewing suggestions from national legislators on installing elevators in old low-rise buildings, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development put technical research and project construction on its agenda.
In China, seniors living in apartments built before 1990 face difficulty getting up and down the stairs because the buildings are usually six or seven floors and do not have elevators.
A people-centered approach means fostering new city clusters, investing in public services and healthcare in counties, and upgrading infrastructure in bigger cities, such as adding elevators to old apartment buildings as their residents age.