The mania for the winter-sports-equipped mascot in digital form came amidst a frenzy of shopping for the physical version, with aficionados forming long queues for hours in front of authorized stores in China.

在人们疯狂购买实体版吉祥物之际，人们对这款配备冬季运动装备的数字吉祥物产生了狂热，爱好者们在中国的授权商店前排起了数小时的长队。

The recent collaboration between the world's leading chicken restaurant chain KFC and top domestic blind box producer and toymaker Pop Mart has created a frenzy on the internet, with consumers sharing photos or videos of dozens of fried chicken "family buckets" in exchange for toys.

全球领先的鸡肉连锁餐厅肯德基与国内顶级盲盒生产商和玩具制造商Pop Mart最近的合作在互联网上掀起了一股热潮，消费者分享了数十个炸鸡“家庭水桶”的照片或视频，以换取玩具。

As a latecomer to join the frenzy, JD also reported its accumulated sales during the shopping festival held from Nov 1 to Nov 11 reached a staggering 204.4 billion yuan.

JD, another e-commerce heavyweight and a latecomer to join the frenzy, reported its accumulated sales during the shopping carnival held from Nov 1 to Nov 11 reached a staggering 204.4 billion yuan.

More than 200,000 brands participated in the 24-hour shopping frenzy at Alibaba's online marketplaces, with one million new products for sales and the turnover of 299 brands surpassing 100 million yuan, such as Apple, Dyson, Esteexa0Lauder, L'Oreal, Lancome, Nike and Adidas.

Alibaba plans to seek listing approval from Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd shortly after the Chinese e-commerce giant's online retail frenzy Singles Day on Nov 11, and may list its shares towards the end of November or in early December, the sources said.

Currently, the shared e-scooter frenzy is sweeping foreign markets.

However, analyst Zhu said despite the frenzy in promoting brands with Chinese traditional elements and other kinds of IP like cultural heritage elements, the challenge for such marketing of brands is to maintain the product's top quality, to meet the expectations raised by the new marketing strategy.

The brand's pipeline of new stores reflects the market frenzy for membership models in recent years, with all kind of businesses adopting the approach, from music applications to e-commerce retailers.

During the past few years, bike-sharing frenzy swept across China, but the sector faces an uncertain future recently, as companies started facing cash crunches.

During the annual shopping frenzy, consumers spent more than 10 million yuan ($1.5 million) in around an hour on Canada Goose's Tmall shop.

Following in the footsteps of financial technology and online entertainment companies, educational technology firms are the latest emerging segment in the Chinese tech scene to join in the outbound listing frenzy this year.

When the hyperloop frenzy started in 2013, it was just tech magnate Elon Musk's wild idea about the next-generation of travel.

Joining the recent listing frenzy are online video site iQiyi Inc, smartphone maker Xiaomi and e-commerce latecomer Pinduoduo.

Luckin Coffee's rapid expansion in China－opening 525 coffee chain stores in four months－has wooed more than 1.3 million customers and created an internet frenzy by challenging coffee giant Starbucks.

China's bike-sharing industry reached a frenzy in less than three years.

The bike-sharing frenzy started from and has boomed in China, with dozens of startups providing colorful shared bikes on the streets to enable environmentally friendly, convenient short trips.

Rising from nowhere, China's bike-sharing industry reached a frenzy in less than three years.

"Chinese companies' frenzy for investing in overseas sports industry will cool down for a while.

Industry experts said the purchasing frenzy during the biggest shopping event of the year showed the enormous vitality of the consumer market in China and strong resilience of the country's economy.

"Responding to the travel frenzy, we adopted an online reserving system to keep the daily passenger flow to 25,000 to provide tourists with better traveling experiences," said Ding Yongxiao, who is in charge of the scenic spot.

Before Moutai, Luckin Coffee collaborated with Coconut Palm Group, a household coconut milk manufacturer, to create a coconut milk latte that caused a nationwide frenzy.

Lu Jiming, a coffee shop owner in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is quietly brewing a "business" combining traditional Chinese medicine and coffee, driven by the younger generation's new consumption frenzy that is heavily tilted toward healthy lifestyles.

Over 2.7 million livestreamers are actively engaged in the online sales frenzy, said the ministry.

Rao Shuguang, president of the China Film Critics Association, said the movie frenzy made him feel that Chinese films will be off to "a new start towards a better future" after being hampered by COVID-19 for years.

Nevertheless, we expect that the current frenzy of inflation pressures will largely abate.

As a "record-breaking wave of Chinese tourists" are hitting the road for a May Day trip, the travel frenzy is "giving China's economy a powerful short-term boost," Reuters said in a recent report.

(Read more)A buying frenzy kicked up a notch in China as the annual Nov 11, Singles Day sales event saw brands ringing up billions of yuan in online sales and customers snapping up imported items via e-commerce.

Their online advertisement, strategically highlighting unique flavors and nutritional value, has sparked a social media frenzy, drawing a flood of customers.

Chinese consumers' frenzy for open-air sports is also expected to drive the development of various related industries to a great extent, due to its labor and capital-intensive nature, extensive industry chain and wide-reaching impact, the NDRC said.

Despite an increase in appointments to visit homes for sale, Wu of 5i5j said his manager had cautioned sales staff to avoid pressuring customers into buying homes by using words like "sales frenzy", or exaggerating the current situation.

Major Chinese tech heavyweights, including Alibaba Group, Baidu Inc and Tencent Holdings Ltd, have unveiled their own AI-powered large models amid a worldwide frenzy surrounding ChatGPT.

We will see a persistent 'travel frenzy' during the May Day holiday," said Li Huiqin, a tourism expert with the China University of Geosciences.

This expansion comes as Chinese tech heavyweights step up efforts to develop their own AI-powered large language models amid a worldwide frenzy surrounding ChatGPT, they said.

The move, announced in January, sparked a frenzy of trip planning and saw online searches for overseas destinations spike, with Thailand being the most popular.

Industry experts said the buying frenzy during China's biggest online shopping event showcased the enormous consumption vitality and strong resilience of the country's economy.

However, the recent frenzy of transforming hypermarkets into membership outlets has triggered questions about whether it is the panacea for the struggling offline retail trade, which has lost ground to rapidly rising e-commerce amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new consumption frenzy is a trend featuring younger consumers who are opting for high-quality goods and are not afraid to pry open their wallets wide.

"Recent policy changes in some cities are aimed at cooling the frenzy among parents to find ideal homes in school districts," said Ding.

A total of 1.54 billion transactions valued at about 1.16 trillion yuan were processed by NetsUnion during the shopping frenzy, the clearinghouse said on Tuesday.

The record 268.4 billion yuan ($38.4 billion) in sales achieved by e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group during the shopping frenzy also shows how the enormous purchasing power of consumers injects new vitality into China's economic growth, they added.

In the days ahead of the Nov 11 online shopping frenzy, 22 Shanghai-based major e-commerce enterprises are being required to regulate their promotional activities by Shanghai authorities, the Paper.

Advertising is one of the focuses on both of the calls in Shanghai and Beijing, eyeing at better regulating the coming "Double 11" online shopping frenzy.

"Frequent fund infusions and a listing frenzy reflect a booming online education market," said Lyu Senlin, founder and chief researcher at the Learneasy Times Online Education Research Institute, an industry research consultancy.

Wu made history by becoming the first Chinese player to score in a La Liga match on March 2, sending his fans into a frenzy.

The moment Starbucks launched its limited-edition "cat-paw cup", it sparked a frenzy among Chinese consumers who own pet cats.

The frenzy of disposal activity was driven primarily by ongoing stiff policy control back home, led by a clampdown on lending to real estate developers and investors, the report said.

And the one-day annual buying frenzy broke last year's record.

Since it's beyond the government's capability to influence property demand, and all the administrative measures introduced so far have proved to be ineffectual, raising supply seems to be the only option available to cool the market frenzy.

In the past two years, the long-acclaimed food chain had faced mounting pressure due to ebbing customer traffic offset by the e-commerce frenzy as well as a changing demographic that the traditional brand failed to impress.

The short video frenzy powered by leading domestic firms is unsurprising, considering tech-savvy millennials' rising embrace of the mobile internet and their love for sharing experiences and social networking.

AI-powered terminal devices are attracting attention this year amid a worldwide frenzy over the ChatGPT chatbot.

It's also a question weighing on the minds of Chinese investors, as the recent AI frenzy in the local stock market cools.

Major Chinese tech heavyweights, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, Baidu Inc and Tencent Holdings Ltd, have unveiled their own LLMs amid a worldwide frenzy surrounding ChatGPT.

The authorities have been planning to standardize LLMs in the country since the ChatGPT frenzy last year, said an industry veteran who is close to the institute, asking not to be identified by name.

The launch of an AI-powered smartphone aligns with Baidu's strategy to bet big on AI amid a worldwide frenzy surrounding ChatGPT, an AI chatbot launched by US startup OpenAI last November.

Artificial intelligence is expected to usher in speedy growth in China and become a key driving force for a new round of technological and industrial revolution, as major Chinese tech heavyweights have accelerated efforts to develop their own AI-powered large models amid a worldwide frenzy around the ChatGPT chatbot, experts said.

More joint efforts are needed from the Chinese government and tech companies to develop independent large model artificial intelligence platform, promote data flow and boost computing power so as to gain a lead in global tech competition amid the ChatGPT frenzy, said leading tech company executives and industry experts at the ongoing Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2023 on Wednesday.

The frenzy over metaverse, a tech buzzword that promises a future where virtual and physical worlds are inextricably interconnected, is cooling as major tech heavyweights are downsizing workforces in metaverse-related businesses and banking on the fast-growing artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) sector, experts said.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange issued supervisory work letters on Feb 8 to Cloudwalk Technology and Speechocean, which queried the dramatic rise in their share prices over the past eight trading days amid the frenzy around the ChatGPT chatbot.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange issued supervisory work letters on Wednesday to Cloudwalk Technology and Speechocean, which queried the dramatic rise in their share prices over the past eight trading days amid the frenzy around the ChatGPT chatbot.

This has propelled an investment frenzy in overseas mines from lithium companies and battery manufacturers," said Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University in Fujian province.

Lin Boqiang, head of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University, said the investment frenzy in the lithium mining sector was due to the expansion of production lines of lithium-ion batteries for the booming NEV market driven by China's decarbonization goals, as well as surging prices of raw materials.

"Lithium companies' investment frenzy was also spurred by surging prices of raw materials, which was a result of the overall price increase of commodities, and also a result of tight supplies and growing demand from downstream battery and NEV makers," Lin said.

Lottery announcement stirs up selling frenzy among carmakers as competition intensifiesThis year's car number plate lottery in Beijing has caused a frenzy among new energy vehicle makers eager to lure Chinese customers who struck it lucky on the lottery results announcement day.

Though much remains a mystery, the news drove investors into a frenzy.

E-commerce leader Alibaba Inc has collaborated with SAIC Motor Co and launched the internet-connected model, Roewe RX5, which sparked a buying frenzy.

Still, it ignited a deal frenzy in Silicon Valley and hiked self-driving startup valuations, both of which may accelerate after the SoftBank partnership.

Amid hype and skepticism, metaverse spawns talk that it might emerge as digital "soul" of factoriesA metaverse frenzy is gripping China with tech heavyweights and startups already seeing it as the next trillion-dollar business opportunity.

Jiao Juan, an analyst at Essence Securities, a Chinese securities company, said the metaverse frenzy comes amid a profound economic shift－the added value of the internet has peaked and started to fade.

TWS earphones, containing two separate sets and a charging box, free users completely from the annoyance of cables and have recently stirred up a frenzy in Huaqiang North's electronics malls.

In one stroke, the move made 4G networks accessible to almost everyone in a market comprising more than a billion consumers, sparking a frenzy for smartphones.

Though the Chinese Year of the Dragon will kick in about a month later, the consumer frenzy around products characterized by the auspicious mythical creature — such as dragon-shaped gold jewelry and gold phone decals adorned with dragon-year motifs — is already palpable.

However, a frenzy of buying gold accessories and bars has yet to come as the peak season usually falls before the Chinese Lunar New Year, according to Zhu.

High-profile star managers leading frenzy of activity, attracting people into the fast-growing market in ChinaIt's human nature to want to make an easy buck.

After rocking the stock market at the end of January in a speculative buying frenzy, shares in the video game store chain are buzzing anew on Wall Street.

NEW YORK -- US stocks advanced considerably in the week as retail trading frenzy cooled and Wall Street expected that a slew of downbeat data could boost the possibility of additional stimulus.

Historical lessons, especially the market frenzy in 2015 followed by a painful meltdown, tell us that only a rational approach is beneficial to market participants.

Being fully aware of the market fundamentals and avoiding frenzy will help investors to better tap into the market and grow their wealth.

Bitcoin's rise in 2009, the subsequent frenzy over its trading (which was marked by unrealistic prices and obscene returns), and the potential threat they posed to conventional cash led to denouncements that digital currencies are a fraud, outright bubbles.

The buying frenzy will fizzle out when prices are seen to be falling and property’s appeal as the best storage of value waning.

Despite disappointing market performance and lukewarm investor appetite casting a shadow over the new economy IPO frenzy, a flurry of mainland companies have lost no time in filing their IPO applications in Hong Kong, in their quest to cash in on the city's listing regime reform and raise funds before a potential reversal from peak valuations.

Amid mounting concerns about hefty pricing and valuations that prove hard to sustain, the new economy frenzy has fizzled out.

The companies fed the new economy IPO frenzy in Hong Kong last year, but have seen a combined HK$177 billion sell-off in market capitalization from earlier highs.

"To eliminate the market frenzy once and for all so that everyone can start again by following the new rule is a very meaningful strategy," Sheng said.

"Currently, there is an unhealthy frenzy toward ICO which has attracted lots of players without adequate knowledge about blockchain or ICO.

China has been on an initial public offerings (IPO) frenzy in the first six months of 2017, with 247 companies going public and more than 125 billion yuan ($18.46 billion) secured in IPO fundraisers, Securities Daily reported Tuesday.

[Photo by Lu Qijian/For China Daily]China's plan to develop a special economic zone－the Xiongan New Area－near Beijing has fueled a stock market frenzy all right, but analysts remain skeptical such optimism would create a sustainable bull market.