Tom reached up to loosen the scarf around his neck.
汤姆伸手松了松脖子上的围巾。
Love must learn to loosen our hand.
爱要学会放开我们的手。
The party has loosened its links with people.
这个政党与人民的关系疏远了。
The gardener loosened the soil around the plants to improve drainage.
园丁松动植物周围的土壤以改善排水。
She loosened her grip on the steering wheel to avoid shaking during the bumpy road.
她在颠簸的路面上松开对方向盘的握力，以减少颤抖。
He loosened his tie to feel more comfortable at the formal event.
他在正式场合松开了领带，感觉更自在。
After a long day, she decided to loosen up with some friends at the bar.
经过漫长的一天，她决定去酒吧放松一下。
The carpenter loosened the nails to take apart the old cabinet.
木匠松动钉子以便拆卸旧橱柜。
She loosened the screws on the back of the frame to adjust the picture's position.
她松动画框背后的螺丝来调整图片的位置。
He loosened his belt after a big meal to accommodate his growing belly.
饭后他松了松腰带，以适应日益增长的腹部。
The bartender loosened the ice in the cocktail shaker to mix the ingredients thoroughly.
调酒师在摇酒器中松开冰块，以彻底混合配料。
She loosened her hair from its tight bun to let it fall softly around her shoulders.
她解开紧绷的发髻，让头发自然垂落在肩头。
The hiker loosened his backpack straps to make the climb easier.
徒步者松开背包带，使攀登更加轻松。
"Although there has been recent loosening in policy, the tight monetary environment remains largely in place," Yang told The Investor.
"The purpose is to loosen the grip on certain aspects and empower the companies," he said.
But the decision to loosen restrictions on Huawei received a mixed response from analysts.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said in two US television programs on Sunday that Huawei will remain on the US blacklist, and "what's happening now is simply a loosening up for general merchandise", such as chips and software generally available around the world, but not products considered to have national security sensitivity, the Associated Press reported.
Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of the Mobile China Alliance, said loosening restrictions gives the right amount of time that Huawei needs to find alternatives and accelerate development of its own technologies, but the company needs to "remain wary of challenges ahead".
In recent years, China has been gradually loosening its restrictions on the business operations of wholly-owned foreign oil companies in the country, including lifting the 30-site limit for international fuel retailers.
The CSRC has unveiled a range of policies loosening restrictions on M&A applications.
"The authorities sometimes tighten grip on market regulation, and sometimes, as it is now, loosen restrictions," said Song Guoliang, professor of finance at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing.
"Policies, including allowing social capitals to invest in the base and its projects and loosening restrictions on the rights to import crude oil and to use imported crude oil help attract the non-public sector into the petrochemical industry and promote the industrial transformation and upgrade," said Shou Baichun with the Rongsheng International Trade Co. , Ltd. , one of the initiators of ZPC.
In May, US President Donald Trump signed into law key changes that include loosening mortgage regulations and having fewer regulations for thousands of midsize banks — banks with less than $250 billion in assets.
The insurer is also interested in boosting its stake holding in its joint ventures in China to 51 percent or more, once the Chinese regulators loosen the restrictions on foreign ownership, Nicandrou said.
""Following the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we will greatly loosen market access, open wider, spare no effort to foster a law-based, internationalized and convenient business environment, while taking increased measures to protect the legitimate rights of foreign investors," Gao added.
"As the Chinese aviation authorities are loosening their grip on low-altitude airspace, market demand for private airplanes in China will also rise, and we should be prepared for that", said Hong.
"With a relatively weak domestic demand weighing on the nation's economic recovery, building infrastructure is even more significant now as such activities can boost domestic demand and shore up market confidence," said Long Chaocan, an analyst and market consultant with China Galaxy Securities Co Ltd. "More supportive measures such as moderately expanding fiscal spending and loosening restrictions on local government bond issuances should be rolled out to ensure investment and economic stimulus.
Many local governments, he said, have proposed loosening measures concerning homebuying and sales restrictions.
Zhang Bin, deputy director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said he expects more forceful loosening of monetary policy so that it can quickly and fully complement fiscal policy maneuvers aimed at strengthening the current economic recovery.
The pressure on the EU is so pressing that the European Commission has even proposed the Net Zero Industry Act, a panicked response to restrict green imports and loosen regulations on state aid, which was deemed as a move contradicting free market rules, raising concerns within the EU that the move may distort the unified market.
Big boost for many sectorsTaken together, both the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions and a greater focus on common prosperity will offer opportunities for a variety of business sectors — healthcare, manufacturing, technology and finance, just to name a few.
Despite headwinds, Louise Loo, senior economist at the Oxford Economics think tank, expects the pass-through of recent easing measures and authorities' data-dependent policy loosening in the coming months to support a tentative and bumpy recovery going forward.
It is my understanding that China will continue to loosen up market access to foreign investment while ensuring national security in critical areas.
"A new round of measures to loosen home purchase restrictions are underway for September, which is hoped to promote market stabilization and healthy development," said Yan.
There currently are measures such as loosening development loans and lowering housing loan interest rates.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, also published a guideline on Monday to boost consumption, proposing measures including opening more duty-free stores, encouraging the financial system to reduce interest rates and loosening restrictions on vehicle purchases.
China's central bank has given loosening signals for the country's monetary policy, which is quite necessary.
Due to the government's efforts to fine-tune relevant real estate policies, including relaxation of mortgage quotes, expediting mortgage approvals and loosening credit limits to healthy developers, the latest figure of housing sales and home prices has show signs of recovery.
Pan Helin, executive director of the Digital Economy Academy of the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, said that as China's domestic inflation is expected to remain mild and global inflation pressure is likely to slightly ease in 2022, Chinese policymakers could consider moderately loosening macroeconomic policies to spur growth.
Xu Hongcai, deputy director of the China Association of Policy Science's economic policy committee, said the government has accelerated the issuance of local government special bonds and it is likely to loosen credit and financing policies for companies.
This indicates that monetary policy is likely to loosen while remaining overall stable, he said.
Wang Tao, head of Asia economics and chief China economist with UBS Investment Bank, said the slowdown in business activities in August signals that the government will soon ease fiscal policy to offset rising headwinds, though a massive, all-around loosening is unlikely.
So, the country is unlikely to loosen regulations relating to debt financing of property developers and local governments, they said.
China is loosening its financial market regulations for foreign investors.
Authorities said that the zone will ramp up efforts to improve its business environment, explore new ways to promote trade, and further loosen restrictions on investment in the aim of increasing its international influence and further consolidating itself as a leader in reform and opening-up.
According to Yang, both Guangzhou and Shenzhen have implemented several new measures in the past week, including raising the proportion of housing provident fund loans, loosening the price cap on land bidding and lowering the payment ratio.
Beijing adjusted polices of housing provident fund loans on Wednesday as part of an effort to loosen restrictions on house purchases.
Feng suggested lowering mortgage rates, including those of existing loans, and loosening property purchase and loan policies in first-tier cities.
This move will join forces with previous loosening measures by financial regulators in supporting credit expansion and bond financing to create a more friendly environment and better opportunities for property developers' refinancing, said Yan Yuejin, director of the Shanghai-based E-house China Research and Development Institution.
By loosening the lending curbs for presold projects to facilitate the handover of buildings, the State Council strived to improve the balance sheets of the property industry and promote the healthy development of the real estate sector, Yan said.
"The CSRC's move to support the refinancing of property companies, in combination with previous loosening measures by financial regulators to support credit expansion and bond financing, is expected to create a friendlier environment and better opportunities for property developers' refinancing," Yan said.
On Sept 29, financial authorities also said they would loosen the lower limit for mortgage rates for first-time homebuyers in certain cities.
Moreover, some cities will be eligible to loosen the lower limit for mortgage rates for first-time homebuyers.
The country's financial authorities also said late on Thursday that China will loosen its lower limit for mortgage rates for first-time home-buyers in some cities.
The policy adjustments announced previously were mostly targeted to encourage rational home consumption, be it loosening purchase restrictions, loan limitations, and sales curbs, or adjusting mortgage interest rates.
Such measures included loosening purchase restrictions, loan limits and sales curbs, lending support to provident fund loans and adjusting mortgage interest rates.
These include lowering the down payment ratio, offering home purchase subsidies and loosening the grip on provident fund loans, said economist Ren Zeping, an online influencer who is the former chief economist of debt-laden property giant Evergrande.
In the past few months, China's policymakers have started to fine-tune and adjust policies to provide some support to the real estate sector, including relaxing mortgage quotes, expediting mortgage approvals and loosening credit limits, to healthy developers.
With "housing is for living in, not for speculation" remaining the keynote guidance for the real estate sector, policies on mortgages and real estate financing may become less restricted, and some local governments may even loosen their restrictions on home purchases and ease price caps, Wang said.
The function of the market is not to tighten or loosen the market, but to provide better services in terms of public properties.
The COVID-19 epidemic boosted the development of online healthcare last year, and related policies started to loosen.
去年，COVID-19疫情促进了在线医疗的发展，相关政策也开始放宽。
"This is especially the case when COVID-19 has caused a loosening of relations globally among industry chains, upstream and downstream chains, market supply and demand.
这句话的中文翻译是："特别是在新冠病毒导致全球产业链、上下游产业链以及市场需求供应关系松动的情况下。
"River crabs loosen soil, weed the field, catch insects and fertilize rice, while rice can purify the environment and provide shelter for river crabs," he said.
While the country is on course to loosen its decades-long residential permission system, aiming to expedite flow of population, residential permits in mega cities like Beijing and Shanghai are still prized as they indicate better social welfare.
We expect more demand side loosening to come on a city-by-city basis as the export slowdown intensifies.
The expected prudent policy loosening to counter exports slowdown and accelerated market consolidation should let the winners in the sector grow their sales.
If policy loosening does not come as expected, the fundamentals may slump again.
We suggest more local policies for easing the credit pressure on property companies, moderate loosening of regulations and restrictions, discretional adjustments in taxation cuts and reliefs, and adequate support to real estate developers in accordance with their specific local conditions.
Mi Yang, head of research for North China at real estate consultancy firm JLL, said some may expect a loosening of regulation for the property sector due to downward economic pressure, but the message from the central and local governments shows policymakers' determination to persist in the old principles.
That means, even though there will likely be some loosening in the future, the government still wants to keep the increased liquidity out of the real estate sector.
The reason is simple: given the existing home prices and the leverage ratio, the risks in loosening real estate policies far outweigh short-term benefits.
As economic growth slowed to 6.2 percent in the second quarter, speculation began to take shape that policymakers may loosen their grip on the property market to combat downside pressure, as they did amid earlier economic downturns, according to Yang.
"It is almost impossible that local governments will loosen regulations over the sector in the third quarter," said Yan, adding that tighter regulation may push real estate developers to take active measures to shore up sales, such as offering discounts.
During the second half of this year, some cities are predicted to loosen their control of the real estate market based on local conditions, when an increasing number of developers plan to launch their project.
Domestic private energy firm Enn Energy Holdings Ltd said the government's further loosening of curbs on foreign investment with the new negative list in fields of urban gas demonstrates the country's resolve to expand its opening up of the sector.
But a large-scale price rebound is not likely to happen since the government will not loosen real estate policies," McQuade said.
According to JLL, another international real estate consultancy agency, despite the traditional low season that coincides with Chinese New Year, buyers were more active in the quarter as they expected a moderate loosening in policy in the near future.
But a large-scale price rebound is not likely to happen since the government will not loosen the real estate policies," said McQuade.
On Nov 5 2018, President Xi Jinping gave a speech during the opening ceremony of the China International Import Expo, stating that China is steadily expanding the opening-up of the financial sector, and will loosen limitations on foreign investment in the medical field.
"Neither soaring prices or sliding ones bring stabilization," he said, predicting that at least 30 cities will make micro adjustments to their housing policies this year, which means more cities will see a slight loosening of regulations this year.
However, intra-city instant delivery adopted crowdsourcing model based on third-party, loosening restrictions on couriers and erecting barriers on management, though the model helped rapidly tap into market at low cost and allocate personnel in a flexible manner.
Leading officials of five cities were questioned by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development on whether they had strictly followed the tightening policies on the property market, indicating that the central government won't loosen its grip on the housing market in order to prevent excessive price hikes and other irregularities.
On Friday, officials from both the MIIT and the Ministry of Commerce said they would work on further measures to stimulate car sales, including more rural campaigning and encouraging local authorities to loosen restrictions on license plate quotas.
在周五，来自工信部和商务部的官员表示，他们将致力于采取更多措施来刺激汽车销售，包括加大农村地区的推广力度，并鼓励地方政府放宽对车牌额度的限制。
"It is our collective responsibility to move through the phases of reopening and loosening the restrictions of the shelter-in-place order in the safest way possible, guided by data and science," the department said.
"With the decisions by the federal and state governments in Germany and the loosening of restrictions in other European states, conditions have been established for the gradual resumption of production," Ralf Brandstaetter, chief operating officer of the Volkswagen brand, said in a statement.
To promote the development of the domestic NEV market, China has been strengthening the construction of charging facilities and loosening market access requirements for NEV manufacturers.
- China decided to loosen market access requirements for new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturers, in an effort to further unlock the industry's vitality amid the COVID-19 outbreak and better promote its development, according to a statement released Tuesday.
China will endeavor to stabilize new car sales, loosen purchase restrictions in certain cities and invigorate the used-car market in a bid to unleash the consumption potential for cars, said Wang Bin, deputy director-general of the department of market operation and consumption promotion under the Ministry of Commerce.
China will endeavor to stabilize new car sales, loosen purchase restrictions in certain cities and invigorate the used-car market in a bid to unleash the consumption potential for cars, an official said Thursday.
Local governments has been encouraged to put forward incentive measures for auto industry, including subsidizing new energy vehicle buyers, loosening vehicle purchase restrictions and introducing auto replacement scheme.
Association head says easier entry will allow for greater production opportunitiesChina's top industry planner is likely to loosen up requirements on new energy vehicle production to better promote development, which is being thought of as a significant step for the industry.
A production line glitch may cause several bolts in the aforementioned vehicles' fuel supply system to loosen over time, posing hazards of fuel leak and fire, according to the statement.
"Loosening restrictions on buying vehicles in Guangzhou and Shenzhen is meaningful in terms of boosting sales," said Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the China Passenger Car Association said via his WeChat account.
"Like new energy vehicles, we will also offer preferential policies related to buying methanol vehicles, such as applying for licenses and loosening the odd-and-even plate driving ban rule," said a Guizhou government official, who did not disclose his name.
Investment firm Jefferies Hong Kong Ltd said that as China plans to loosen its joint venture policies, the situation will favor local companies that are able to support global carmakers in sales and marketing, operation management and government relations.
At the same time, Xi urged developed countries to stop imposing barriers on high-tech product trading over normal and reasonable demands and loosen restrictions on exporting high-tech products to China.
To put it another way, China's overcapacity in 2012 should be mostly attributed to the lack of effective demand brought on by the abrupt change in macroeconomic policy from loosening to tightening.
There has been much talk of policies that could invigorate short-term trades, including a reduction in transaction fees and loosening of T+0 (same-day settlement) trading constraints, though transaction fees in the A-share market remain reasonable compared to international counterparts, engendering a substantially higher turnover rate within the A-share market compared to its Hong Kong equivalent.
China still provides competitive real interest rates — which remove the effects of inflation to reflect real asset yields — when compared to the US, Lou said, which will also help China counter the potential pressure of capital outflows induced by loosening monetary policy.
In fact, the US Congress passed a bill in 2018 to loosen regulation on medium-sized banks.
"Foreign capital will make up a major source of incremental capital into the A-share market this year given loosening global liquidity and the increasingly noticeable investment value of China assets amid the country's economic recovery," Xu said.
In addition, the loosening of a series of real estate policies also signifies that the banking system needs to maintain sufficient liquidity, he said.
Amid the gradual recovery in China's macroeconomy and the marginal loosening of market liquidity, credit risks in the Chinese bond market are controllable in general.
Second, apart from the loosening of policy restrictions on real estate buying and lending, as well as the implementation of housing policies according to local conditions in each city, China also made positive adjustments to financial policies related to housing.
On the other hand, most of the US-listed Chinese mainland companies are qualified for dual listings in Hong Kong, where the securities regulator may further loosen its profitability requirements for innovative tech companies.
"The real question is how much room China has to loosen its monetary policy in a narrow time window as the United States Federal Reserve is likely to tighten its policy in March and cease its asset purchasing plan before that," said Hong Hao, managing director and head of research at BOCOM International.
"The government likely realized the urgency to loosen policies to offset the negative impact of the slowdown in the property market .
But "careful avoidance of excessive loosening and attendant buildup of risks should continue", he said.
China is expected to slightly loosen its real estate financing policies in the fourth quarter and the beginning of next year, said analysts who regarded the downturn of the housing sector as the primary factor affecting the country's economic growth.
"We should pay attention to the pace and the level of (real estate financing) policy loosening because it takes a certain period of time for the market to reflect policy changes," Xu said.
Louis Luo, investment director in multi-asset solutions with abrdn, a global investment company, said the policy divergence may continue as the PBOC may loosen its policy stance to shore up economic growth, reinforcing the appeal of China's A shares on the portfolio diversification front.
The government may think they can afford to wait till the year-end to loosen policies," Zhang said, adding he expected a "meaningful" change of macro policies around the end of this year, and China's economy to stabilize in the first half of 2022.
If the government begins to worry about an economic slowdown, it can act by accelerating the issuance of local government bonds and loosening control over local government debt.