It takes a lot of time to catch up with a industrial lag.
工业的落后需要长时间才能赶上。
The dogs always lag behind when we go for a walk.
我们出去散步的时候，小狗总是落在后面。
The little kid lagged behind her parents.
那小女孩落在了父母的后面。
The internet connection was experiencing lag, causing the video call to freeze repeatedly.
互联网连接有延迟，导致视频通话频繁卡顿。
She felt a mental lag after staying up late the night before, struggling to keep up with the discussion.
她昨晚熬夜后感到思维迟钝，难以跟上讨论。
The game's graphics have improved, but the loading times still suffer from lag.
游戏的图形提升了，但加载时间仍然存在延迟。
The athlete's reaction time seemed to lag behind due to exhaustion during the race.
运动员在比赛中的反应速度似乎因为疲劳而滞后。
Her computer was running on low battery, which led to a significant lag in its performance.
她的电脑电池电量不足，性能明显变慢。
The satellite signal experienced a temporary lag, causing a delay in our live broadcast.
卫星信号出现暂时延迟，直播出现了中断。
There's a communication lag between the two teams working remotely, which is affecting their collaboration.
两个远程工作的团队间存在沟通延迟，影响了合作。
The elderly gentleman struggled with physical lag as he walked slowly down the street.
老人因身体机能减退，走路显得步履蹒跚。
The new software update fixed the lag issue that was plaguing the users for weeks.
新软件更新解决了困扰用户数周的延迟问题。
Lag in decision-making can be detrimental to a company's competitive edge in today's fast-paced market.
决策上的拖延可能对公司在这个快速变化的市场中的竞争力造成损害。
In fact, the natural environment of Yunnan is similar to those areas, but the technology, planting scale and people's recognition of coffee in Yunnan lags behind relatively," Chen said.
事实上，云南的自然环境与这些地区相似，但云南的咖啡技术、种植规模和人们对咖啡的认可度相对滞后，”陈说。
Wen Wu, a senior vice-president of Liugong, said: "Even with a slight increase in demand, the current amount of stock of large machinery will create a lag of time in fulfilling actual demand.
柳工高级副总裁温武表示：“即使需求略有增加，目前大型机械的库存量也会在满足实际需求方面造成时间滞后。
McDonald's still lags behind KFC in terms of market share but has expanded its scale quickly in recent years following the partnership, according to the report.
报道称，麦当劳在市场份额方面仍落后于肯德基，但近年来在合作后迅速扩大了规模。
In China, a growing share of its 1.4 billion people are becoming coffee lovers, but the per capita coffee consumption still lags far behind some developed countries such as Japan and the United States, prompting global coffee brands to set their sights on the huge potential of the Chinese market.
在中国，14亿人口中越来越多的人成为咖啡爱好者，但人均咖啡消费量仍远远落后于日本和美国等一些发达国家，这促使全球咖啡品牌将目光投向了中国市场的巨大潜力。
China's per capita coffee consumption is increasing but still lags far behind Japan and the United States, thus leaving much room for business growth, Narasimhan said during his visit to Shanghai, home to more than 1,000 Starbucks stores, which is more than any other city in the world.
Narasimhan在访问上海时表示，中国的人均咖啡消费量正在增长，但仍远远落后于日本和美国，因此留下了很大的商业增长空间。上海拥有1000多家星巴克门店，比世界上任何其他城市都多。
In the domestic market, the milk consumption of Chinese people has increased more than 40 times in more than four decades, but it still lags behind the global average, Yili said, insisting there is still room for improvement in consumption habits and milk consumption.
伊利表示，在国内市场，中国人的牛奶消费量在40多年里增长了40多倍，但仍落后于全球平均水平，并坚称消费习惯和牛奶消费仍有改善的空间。
"China lags behind developed countries in making certain high-end industrial components, and efforts to nurture SMEs that specialize in one or two products can help the country achieve breakthroughs in crucial areas and complement its industrial structure.
“中国在某些高端工业部件的制造方面落后于发达国家，努力培养专注于一两种产品的中小企业可以帮助中国在关键领域取得突破，并补充其产业结构。
China has gained an upper hand in the liquid crystal display (LCD) field, accounting for about 60 to 70 percent of global production capacity, but it still lags behind in new display technologies, such as organic light-emitting diodes or OLED, Li said.
李说，中国在液晶显示器（LCD）领域占据了上风，约占全球产能的60%至70%，但在有机发光二极管或OLED等新型显示技术方面仍落后。
"China lags behind developed countries in making certain high-end industrial components, and efforts to nurture SMEs that specialize in one or two products can help the country achieve breakthroughs in crucial areas and complement its industrial structure," he added.
他补充道：“中国在某些高端工业部件的制造方面落后于发达国家，努力培育专注于一两种产品的中小企业可以帮助中国在关键领域取得突破，并补充其产业结构。”。
According to the companies, the new open standard will reduce the traditional time lag from three to six seconds to less than one second to provide users with more timely broadcasting.
这些公司表示，新的开放标准将把传统的时差从3到6秒减少到1秒以内，为用户提供更及时的广播。
Ant's earnings lag one quarter behind Alibaba's.
蚂蚁的盈利落后于阿里巴巴四分之一。
The research also showed that for companies that continue to lag in expanding their digital capabilities, only 46 percent were satisfied with the integration and collaboration of their supply chains.
研究还表明，对于那些在提升数字能力方面继续落后的公司而言，只有46%的公司对供应链的整合与协作表示满意。
"Lu Ming, deputy director of the Academy of China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said while China has gained competitive advantages in competing globally, many Chinese enterprises still lag behind foreign companies in terms of rich experience, operational management and innovation capabilities as well as international talent.
中国贸促会研究院副院长鲁明表示，虽然中国在全球竞争中获得了优势，但许多中国企业在外方企业面前仍显得经验不足，在运营管理、创新能力以及国际化人才方面存在差距。
"China lags behind developed countries in the manufacture of previous generations of chips.
中国在制造前几代芯片方面落后于发达国家。
However, in recent years, Baidu has seemed to lag behind its two other peer rivals in terms of market valuation and growth momentum, said Chen Duan, executive director of the Zhongjing Digital Economy Research Center.
但近年来，百度在市值和增长势头方面似乎落后于另外两家竞争对手，中经数字经济研究中心执行董事陈端表示。
Li Shousheng, chairman of the China Petroleum and Chemical Industrial Association, noted that the country's production of fine chemicals and new materials lags behind that of the world and there is a trade deficit of $300 billion.
中国石油和化学工业联合会会长李寿生指出，我国精细化学品和新材料生产水平落后于世界，存在3000亿美元的贸易逆差。
"Chinese companies used to lag far behind multinational pharmaceutical companies in vaccine development and production, but have been gaining ground fast in the past few years," Shi said.
施说：“过去，中国公司在疫苗研发和生产方面远远落后于跨国制药公司，但过去几年进步迅速。”
Despite market demand, Africa still lags behind in rolling out the 5G network.
"However, compared with leading world-class city clusters, the region still lags behind in such fields as public services, living conditions and rural and urban management.
"Second, there is a big time lag between the moment you need the data and the moment you get them.
Embedding the alerts in this manner removes the need to download related apps and can reduce time lag, thus enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of early quake warnings, Wang Tun, director of the Institute of Care-Life, said at Xiaomi's annual developer conference.
But the past 10 years saw it lag far behind due to its rigid mechanism.
Liang Zhenpeng, an independent consumer electronics analyst, said Konka has an advantage in the traditional TV sector, but it still lags behind its competitors such as Haier and Midea, in refrigerators and washing machines.
Meanwhile, the growth of once-dominant energy sector continues to lag behind.
"Although JD Logistics is beefing up its presence in the third-party delivery business and taking steps to motivate employees' enthusiasm, it still lags behind other courier companies such as SF Holding, YTO Express, STO Express and Yunda Express," said Lu Zhenwang, CEO of Shanghai-based Wanqing Consultancy.
"Chinese panel companies are developing rapidly in the flexible and foldable screens sector, but we still lag behind South Korean competitors in key technical talent, craftsmanship and product reliability," said Wang Jian, an analyst at Beijing-based market researcher Sigmaintell Consulting.
"Chen added Amazon lags behind its rivals in marketing promotion and business operations in China.
"Amazon lags behind its rivals in marketing promotion and business operations in China.
"Although JD Logistics is beefing up its presence in third-party delivery business and taking steps to motivate staff's enthusiasm, it still lags behind courier companies such as SF Holding, YTO Express, STO Express and Yunda Express," said Lu Zhenwang, CEO of Shanghai-based Wanqing Consultancy.
"Chinese pharmaceutical companies lag behind multinationals in the chemical drugs sector, but it is a different story for biomedicine and innovative drugs R&D," Shi said.
"Samsung still lags behind its local competitors such as Huawei, Vivo, Oppo and Xiaomi in terms of shipments and market share; it should make more efforts in strengthening brand building, and expanding offline and online retail channels," said Jia Mo, a research analyst with technology consultancy Canalys.
The domestic beer market now faces fierce competition, with severe homogeneity of products, and the products available in the market lag behind consumers' demand for diversification and high-quality products," said Neil Wang, president of consulting company Frost & Sullivan in China.
But, more efforts are still needed for Huawei to beef up its profit margins, which still lag far behind Apple, analysts said.
"Konka has an advantage in the traditional TV sector, but it still lags behind its competitors, such as Haier and Midea, in refrigerators and washing machines," said Liang Zhenpeng, an independent consumer electronics analyst.
"The world is unfair in terms of education resources as a great many developing countries lag behind in education quality, not to mention education embedded with technologies.
"China Unicom and China Telecom still lag behind their rival China Mobile in the field of 4G base stations, construction of telecom infrastructure and number of subscribers.
The acquisition not only enables it to gain assets but also talents in the wind power sector, as China still lags European peers in the offshore wind power sector in both volume and technology, said Wang.
Analysts said PetroChina's increased natural gas output still lags behind the country's gas demand growth, as the government steps up efforts to promote the fuel to tackle severe air pollution.
"At present, almost all of the large-sized OLED panels are provided by LG Display, and the production capacity of domestic display panel manufacturers lags behind their South Korea competitor," said Dong Min, general manager at AVC.
While China has produced innovative business models, the country still lags behind in (some) science and materials-based innovation.
Many Eurasian economies and regions still lag behind in internet infrastructure development and smart freight transportation.
More births brought by a change in birth control policy will bring stronger demand for nursery education around 2018, while the supply of kindergarten places will lag behind in the short term, the company predicted.
However, China still lags behind other countries in fiber laser technology, said Wang Pu, a professor at the Institute of Laser Engineering of Beijing University of Technology.
"Baidu's food delivery business already lags way behind the leading competitors.
"Admitting that traditional industrial enterprises lag behind internet companies in terms of cloud infrastructure, Duan is leading her team to carve out a unique combination of deep industrial domain expertise and software capabilities.
"Among the world's most three significant networks, the integration of energy infrastructure lags far behind the information and transportation sectors," Liu Zhenya, GEIDCO chairman and former chairman of SGCC, said in an article he wrote for Bloomberg View.
The infrastructure lags behind compared with mature markets, leading to tight flight slots and high costs.
He listed factors such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that might have caused a lag in investment data, bearing in mind the long cycle of investors' investment decisions, geopolitics and the overall shrinkage in the scale of global FDI, which fell to $1.3 trillion in 2022, down by about 12 percent year-on-year, according to UNCTAD data.
Compared to full-fledged Western financial markets, China's financial market still lags behind in terms of size, internationalization level and infrastructure.
This has been repeatedly proven in practice in dealing with negative externalities, such as environmental pollution, time lag in macroeconomic policy implementation, difficulty in coordinating different policies, and the elimination of market monopolies.
Interestingly, the rapid growth in livestreams or short video penetration is not yet matched by average spending per livestream or short video customer, which significantly lags traditional e-commerce platforms.
The positive effect of supportive policies — including measures to boost private enterprises — will also be felt, though with a lag.
However, it still lags behind the levels in the US (3.45 percent), Japan (3.26 percent) and Germany (3.14 percent) over the same period.
However, when it comes to indexes such as GDP per capita, gross national income per capita, and resources and wealth volume divided by its population, the country not only falls short of internationally recognized standards for developed countries, but also lags behind some other developing economies.
Due to the time lag of demand recovery and the basis effect, China's year-on-year growth in consumer price index, a main gauge of inflation, may further ease in July, Liu said at a news conference on Friday.
For example, while significant improvements are evident, Chinese corporates still lag when it comes to ESG disclosures and reporting, and the key roadblock to this challenge is ESG data collection.
Financial enterprises require the time lag of data to be shortened to within one millisecond.
However, there are some economic bench marks employed by international organizations to decide a country's development status, and China still lags behind developed countries in most of these.
"In many key aspects, China still lags behind developed countries," he said.
Meanwhile, the pensions that some people receive, especially in rural areas, still lag far behind their urban counterparts, Guan said.
On the construction of waste processing plants, the expert said: "This is a sector in which Bulgaria lags behind but in which China has huge successes.
Despite these notable achievements, Zhang said some Chinese games companies seeking opportunities in global markets still lag behind their international counterparts in areas such as marketing channels and methods.
In terms of durian consumption globally, China lags only Indonesia and Malaysia now as domestic production of tropical fruits is limited, necessitating imports.
Foreign trade is a slow variable and has a time lag.
There is a time lag in policy transmission from SOEs to private enterprises.
Zou Lan, an official with the People's Bank of China, said that rapid monetary credit growth and a fall in prices were essentially a result of time lags.
Brands will act differently in the sustainability drive, with some vigorously seeking progress while some lag behind.
"However, it should be noted that the quality of some Chinese products and services still lags behind that of those in some other nations, especially in advanced industrial components and technologies.
The province lags behind developed economies mainly in development quality.
Zhou warned that recovery in domestic demand still lags behind recovery in production, and called for steps to continuously expand effective demand and fully implement existing stimulus policies.
"China lags behind developed countries in making certain high-end industrial components, and the efforts to nurture SMEs that specialize in one or two products can help the country achieve breakthroughs in crucial areas and complement its industrial structure," Qu said.
"China still lags behind developed countries in terms of core technologies and fundamental disciplines supporting the development of manufacturing.
The country will probably see its economic growth accelerate in the second half of the year as there is a time lag between the introduction of policies and their effects, Peng said.
Zhou Xuezhi, a researcher with the Institute of World Economics and Politics, which is under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said although it is the world's second-largest economy, China still lags far behind developed economies in terms of per capita domestic gross product and faces uneven development levels across regions and industries.
From the perspective of exports, Customs' declaration data lags behind new order statistics by about a quarter.
Hong Kong's lag in these indexes has actually improved over time, Lau said.
"The paper noted that China now suffers a dependence on semiconductors and lags behind in aeronautics, but "Beijing knows its weaknesses and intends to eliminate them. "
Yet, the high-end services industry in China lags behind the fast growth of traditional services such as catering, transport and logistics, said Huo Jianguo, vice-chairman of the Beijing-based China Society for World Trade Organization Studies.
Profit growth of small and micro businesses lags that of medium and large ones, while profit growth of private firms is also lower than that of major industrial firms.
"Although rail freight transport still lags behind its maritime counterpart in terms of the volume of goods transported, it definitely plays an important role in boosting economic relations and trade between China, Germany and other countries," Mattern said.
But the lag behind recovery in the job market and income growth and other factors should be given special attention, said Zou Yunhan, deputy researcher at the State Information Center.
While most data in the report were updated to 2020, those for services lag by a year and do not include the COVID-19 pandemic's effects.
Despite data lags, Allen said it's "highly likely" that US services exports to China in 2020 saw a severe decline amid the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the grim situation in travel and education.
But Ying said a broad-based recovery across the nation does not point to a fully synchronized pace of development as the northern and northeastern regions continued to lag behind, making policy efforts to promote coordinated regional development critical.
With all provinces required to take the responsibility for the development and consumption of renewables, those that lag will need to catch up in the next decade, she said.
In China, one main challenge is the lack of adequate ESG information on its companies that lag disclosure requirements of Western peers.
However, at the same time, as global governance lags behind global practice, multinational corporations have not given back enough to regional and national development, and globalization has exacerbated inequalities among and within countries.
The authorities and companies concerned should be aware that the lag in international rulemaking provides opportunities for a few large countries to act unilaterally and arbitrarily, especially in making new import tariff rules.
He noted that while many countries have crossed the line in utilizing e-commerce in conducting business, the African continent should not lag behind but follow suit as well.
While recognizing the progress that China has made in industrial upgrading, Wang said that the country still lags behind the internationally-advanced level in terms of supply chain dominance and core technologies, calling for more efforts from companies to catch up.
"It should be noted that the quality of some Chinese products still lags behind those in some leading nations, especially those advanced industrial components and technologies," said Zhang Junwei, a macroeconomic researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council, the nation's Cabinet.
While some SOEs may lag non-SOEs in a number of operating metrics, Meng said he does not think the fundamentals of SOEs are as bad as the large valuation gap suggests.
However, Chinese AI enterprises still lag behind leading foreign competitors in core technologies and fundamental research and development in key fields such as chips and basic components, Pan said.
China leads the global market in terms of total orders, but lags behind South Korea in high value-added and high-tech shipbuilding," Xiang said.
But compared with the United States and Japan, freshly brewed coffee consumption in China still lags far behind.
As there is always a time lag in the transmission of policies to investment, appropriate policy adjustments should be made sooner rather than later.
FlightAI, a market insight platform of Ctrip, also showed that, at present, the search index of summer vacation has recovered to the level of 2019, however still lags behind the level of 2021.
The wait times for semiconductor deliveries reached a new high in March, with lead times, or the lag between when a chip is ordered and delivered, increasing by two days to 26.6 weeks last month.
China's per capita service consumption expenditure accounts for 44 percent of total consumption expenditure, which apparently lags behind compared with developed countries.
"The country still lags in terms of core technologies and equipment for hydrogen energy development and hydrogen fuel cells," he said.
“他指出，我国在氢能开发和氢燃料电池的核心技术和装备方面仍然存在不足。”