"People in Guangzhou going to Hong Kong to live and work still feel incompatible in many ways when compared with moving to Zhuhai or Zhongshan," Chang said.

Certain clauses of these regulations were considered in incompatible with the Foreign Investment Law, which took effect on Jan 1.

For instance, in Never Divorce a Secret Billionaire Heiress, viewers can finish watching a complex plot involving incompatible marriages and fights for inheritance in under 10 minutes.

"Tea enterprises have paired traditionally incompatible ingredients, presenting customers with novel and exciting flavors, particularly catering to the adventurous tastes of the younger demographic," said Wu Dongdong, secretary-general of the culinary catering industry association of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Carbon peaking and carbon neutrality are not incompatible with energy security and the transformation of coal, together with other technologies including carbon capture and storage, will further facilitate the green transition," Luo said.

The lines are incompatible with other brands and greatly limit hospitals' ability to expand testing scales and control costs," said Che Weiwei, an expert in IVD at VBData.

The regulator noted that firms cannot use technological means to maliciously impose incompatible barriers on other legal internet products and services.

Auto manufacturers are reluctant to fully disclose battery details, and technological differences in vehicle models make battery swapping equipment incompatible.

This allows them to be recycled more effectively and efficiently by eliminating the need for incompatible materials to be separated before recycling.

Pan Gongsheng, vice-governor of the PBOC, said at a news conference last week that the newly-launched temperate credit supportive programs are "not incompatible with RRR cuts and rate cuts".