With a strong market potential, nation a popular destination for companiesMultinational corporations are stepping up innovations in product development and commercialization to further tap the huge and expanding Chinese market, as they marvel at "China speed" in growth and innovation, which has been showcased at the ongoing sixth China International Import Expo in Shanghai.

中国拥有强大的市场潜力，是企业的热门目的地。跨国公司正在加紧产品开发和商业化创新，以进一步开拓庞大且不断扩大的中国市场。他们惊叹于增长和创新的“中国速度”，这一点已在正在上海举行的第六届中国国际进口博览会上得到了展示。

Micheal Tong, a Hong Kong actor whose image will be created to form an IP, said: "China does not have a platform like Marvel, which encompasses a great number of IPs with different characteristics.

With fostering indigenous IP as its core, the internet giant is expecting to build a prototype of its own 'content universe', similar to that of Walt Disney's Marvel Studios, said Edward Cheng, vice-president of Tencent.

For instance, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, based on long-term deployment on plots and characters, gives rise to not just a successful commercial story but 'shows full respect for user emotion".

They include Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Live Action, Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm.

"Other endeavors include teaming up with world-renowned design teams from Italy and the United Kingdom, and rolling out limited-edition, co-branded products in conjunction with Marvel, the global comic and movie brand behemoth, he said.

Following the Marvel hero series last year, Anta Kids collaborated with Disney's iconic hit animation movie Frozen.

Phonak Marvel, the latest innovation from the Sonova, can enable people with hearing problems to stream all audio content seamlessly from any iPhone or Android device to both ears in full stereo.

Its products such as the Phonak Marvel are gaining traction in China.

The Phonak Marvel's digital-enabled features, Perler said, are a major improvement in accessibility.

Organic growth stood at 4.9 percent in local currencies, accelerating to 7 percent in the second half, driven by the successful introduction of the Phonak Marvel in November 2018.

Next year, their new custom-made Phonak Virto Marvel will be in the ear and also connected to any mobile devices, Perler said.

Phonak introduced Marvel, a new hearing aid product, in China last year.

Marvel offers exceptional speech understanding and reduced listening effort in noise.

This year, Anta has joined hands with leading brands including Marvel, Coca-Cola, and the Palace Museum, resulting in a strong sales performance.

Looking to boost revenue and add more foreign content to its roster, NetEase has partnered with multiple international companies from The Pokemon Company and Marvel to release new games.

Chinese internet firm NetEase Inc announced on Monday a partnership with Marvel Entertainment to create original entertainment offerings based on Marvel stories.

Under the agreement, joint products, including games, television series and comic books featuring Marvel characters will be developed for users in China and beyond.

"We are excited to incorporate these beloved stories and characters into world-class entertainment content for global fans," said William Ding, founder and CEO of NetEase, in a statement.80-year-old Marvel is having a great year with its latest blockbuster, Avengers: Endgame, smashing global box office records.

"As a global leader in online games, NetEase is the perfect fit to help bring the Marvel Universe to more fans around the world," said Dan Buckley, president of Marvel Entertainment.

Guests can also explore the park's Marvel Universe tent, where they can come face-to-face with their favorite superheroes and participate in a range of activities like learning to draw comics and the virtual Iron Man experience.

The ostensible draw prompting me and my "comrades" to open our wallets was some colorful tops stamped with images of superheroes featured in the Marvel Studios film.

Behind one of the highest-grossing film franchises of all time, Marvel Studios has seen brisk presales for Endgame in China.

With Marvel being a financial juggernaut, its cash cow isn't just about the theater - it's also in the merchandise.

For me (and many other diehard fans), is there a better way to show your love for the premiere than wearing a Marvel T-shirt?

Marvel's consumer franchising business has registered compounded annual growth of 50 percent in the past two fiscal years of Walt Disney Co.

And it's not just the Marvel series.

For instance, Marvel's plans for its films are always structured in phases, with each one ending with an Avengers crossover movie.

To build up the momentum for the Endgame release, Disney organized a lottery-based meet and greet event featuring Marvel stars in Shanghai dedicated to fans in China.

It already has classic Disney cartoons, "Star Wars," Pixar, the Muppets and some of the Marvel characters.

With Fox, Disney could add Marvel's X-Men and Deadpool, along with programs shown on such Fox channels as FX Networks and National Geographic.

In addition to boosting the Disney streaming service, expected to debut next year, the deal paves the way for Marvel's X-Men and the Avengers to reunite in future movies.

Though Disney owns Marvel Studios, some characters including the X-Men had already been licensed to Fox.

The streaming service will feature five categories of material: Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic.

In its annual showcase event in Shanghai on Tuesday, Kermid Rahman, vice-president and general manager of Marvel and Consumer Products Commercialization, The Walt Disney Company Greater China and Korea, said that Disney licensing has recorded double-digit growth for five consecutive years.

The owner of Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars has worked with more than 600 licensees in the country.

Those new titles to be shown at Dolby Cinemas include live-action and animated films, such as Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Infinity War" and Lucasfilm's "Solo: A Star Wars Story.

To illustrate this philosophy, Marvel characters are widely connected with the sports industry because of their power and masculinity.

Labbrand has rolled out popular Chinese brand names for companies such as Walt Disney Co's Marvel and LinkedIn.

Professional networking site LinkedIn goes by the moniker Ling Ying (Leading Elite); Marvel is Man Wei (Comic Power).

Last year Disney's movies－with brands including Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars－reached a record box office of more than 6 billion yuan ($895 million) in China.

Disney might bring more of its properties－particularly its Marvel superheroes and the Star Wars franchise－under its wing, and could even offer them as separate streaming services.

Robert Iger, the CEO at Disney, is considering whether the entertainment giant should continue licensing Marvel and Star Wars movies to outside services such as Netflix or move them into the Disney app.

Good story-telling has always been Disney's key to success, "whether it's Beauty and the Beast, Pirates of the Caribbean, or Star Wars, or Marvel's Avengers, they are movies and stories that are popular among consumers in China, in Brazil, in France, in Italy, all over the world.

In the next 14 months, there will be four releases of Marvel movies, including Thor Ragnarok, Black Panther, Avengers Infinity War and Antman and Wasp.

Over the past 40 years, the Chinese economy has created a global marvel.

Revealing their financial reports for the first half of this year, European multinationals marvel at the eye-catching market performance in China.

Apart from teaming up with established intellectual property entities like Japan's Bandai and Marvel of the United States, Top Toy is releasing three original IP figurines that can better express the cultural likings of Chinese youth.

The film, which is the latest installment of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" series, opened Friday on the Chinese mainland, generating a daily box office revenue of 57.77 million yuan ($8.36 million).

This achievement is a kind of marvel made possible by the combination of a highly efficient government, which has built up the world's largest solar manufacturing industry to make it the price leader in most aspects of the global market, and the firm determination to tackle the then pollution problems in the country.

Zhang Xinjin, deputy general manager of China Railway's Kunming bureau, said that the China-Laos railway is a scientific and technological marvel, which has accumulated valuable experience regarding railway construction in mountainous regions of China.

With the theme "Chinese Wine, a Marvel to the World", the expo is organized by the people's government of Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, with the hope to enhance communication and cooperation between the main wine-producing countries and the wine-producing areas in China.

"The Wandering Earth," a film adaption of a Chinese science fiction novel by the Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin, came in second on the chart with 4.68 billion yuan, followed immediately by Disney and Marvel Studios' "Avengers: Endgame," which grossed around 4.25 billion yuan.

The Wandering Earth, a film adaption of a Chinese science fiction novel by Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin, came second on the chart with 4.68 billion yuan, followed immediately by Disney and Marvel's Avengers: Endgame with around 4.25 billion yuan.

Only six movies reaped more than 1 billion yuan ($144.4 million) from the box office during the past five months, including the domestic films Wandering Earth and Crazy Alien, as well as Hollywood blockbusters Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel.

Popular foreign and Chinese animation movies from Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Animation studios, DreamWorks Studios and Chinese studios like Shanghai Animation Film Studio, have helped generate toy sales in the home market, said Li.

- Disney and Marvel's "Avengers: Endgame" has raked in 3 billion yuan (around 445 million US dollars) in box office sales in China's mainland since it hit the screens on April 24.

Chinese-supported major railway highlights growing bilateral relationsMany visitors to the imposing Nairobi Terminus, a major station of the Chinese-built Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya's capital, marvel at the design of the complex.

The projector will not start running until Wednesday, but Avengers: Endgame, a highly-anticipated American superhero film produced by Marvel Studios, has already showed its super box-office drawing power in the Chinese market, according to a report by thepaper.

In addition, as Chinese fans are eager to taste the Marvel movie as soon as possible, pre-release sales for the premier at 00:00, April 12 and the whole first day reached a record of 11.7 million yuan and 16 million yuan as of Sunday.

To be sure, the marvel discussed above is still in the research phase.

If that's a wonder, for thousands of participants at the Zhongguancun Forum, a tech event held in Beijing in May, the surprise on-screen appearance made by Qian Xuesen, a Chinese aerospace engineer who helped develop the rockets that fired China's first satellite into space, was no less than a marvel.

It introduced the Marvel X under the Roewe brand in August, which is priced at around 270,000 yuan.

The Marvel X under SAIC's Roewe brand, which is able to locate free parking spaces and park itself automatically, is expected to hit the market in September at the forthcoming Chengdu Motor Show.

Ford's Dagenham diesel engine plant is a marvel of mechanization - a steel and chrome hangar full of LED lighting, robots and computer-controlled machine tools.

The company's expert graphic artists and computer engineers drew inspiration from the use of such technologies in the creation of the character of Thanos for the Avengers movie series of Marvel Studios.

In the not-so-distant future, Bai envisions that his firm's mechanical marvel will be able to undertake a diverse and complex array of tasks.

These robots are exhibited in five different areas based on diversified themes including imagine, build, dream, obey and marvel.

He received his first set of Audeo Marvel smart hearing aids by Phonak last October.

"Phonak Marvel allows integration between wearable technology and my smartphone to respond to notifications and calls, as well as listen to podcasts.