We are not
merely content to fill the stomach.
我们不仅仅满足于填饱肚子。
The earth is
merely a sphere.
地球只不过是一个球体。
It is
merely a matter of money.
这仅仅是金钱问题。
Japanese companies should regard China as an "innovative power" and "engineering power" rather than merely a big "manufacturing country" or "consumer country," he added.
他补充道，日本企业应该将中国视为“创新大国”和“工程大国”，而不仅仅是一个“制造大国”或“消费大国”。
To him, the new-energy vehicles supported by government policies cover a wider range of vehicles than some other countries, which focus merely on battery electric vehicles.
对他来说，政府政策支持的新能源汽车覆盖范围比其他一些国家更广，这些国家只关注电池电动汽车。
"CDFCS said "the collaboration is not merely an expansion of their maritime network, but also a recognition of CDFCS' capability in operating duty-free services on cruise ships.
CDFCS表示，“此次合作不仅是对其海事网络的扩展，也是对CDFCS在游轮上运营免税服务能力的认可。
A federal government spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the chancellor had made it clear that the bid was not about selling the port, but "merely" a stake in a single terminal.
一位联邦政府发言人周三表示，财政大臣已明确表示，此次竞购并非出售港口，而是“仅仅”持有一个码头的股份。
A federal government spokeswoman said on Wednesday that the chancellor had made clear that the bid was not about selling the port, but "merely" a stake in a single terminal.
联邦政府发言人周三表示，财政大臣已明确表示，此次竞购并非出售港口，而是“仅仅”持有一个码头的股份。
Overdue mortgage loans of those properties totaled 78 million yuan ($11.5 million) as of the end of last month, accounting for merely 0.028 percent of the bank's total mortgage loans for personal housing.
截至上月底，这些房产的逾期抵押贷款总额为7800万元人民币（1150万美元），仅占该行个人住房抵押贷款总额的0.028%。
"The underground overpass section has a length of merely 77 meters but saw additional participation of five technical institutes from Shanghai and construction simulation countless times due to complicated geological conditions, especially the silt-sand mix stratum, which was quite a headache to address.
“地下立交桥段只有77米，但由于地质条件复杂，特别是粉砂混合地层，上海五家技术机构多次参与施工模拟，这是一个令人头疼的问题。
By moving quickly on the right strategic insights, they found ways to not merely survive, but to grow quickly during disruptive times, the report added.
报告补充道，通过快速掌握正确的战略见解，他们不仅找到了生存的方法，而且找到了在颠覆时期快速成长的方法。
The goal is not merely to develop a great reputation for products and services but to lay the foundation for an enduring presence and long-term success, she added.
她补充道，目标不仅是在产品和服务方面建立良好的声誉，还为其持久存在和长期成功奠定基础。
Galderma CEO Flemming Ornskov said that the CIIE is not merely a platform to showcase its latest products, but also a place where it can meet and cooperate with other industry players.
Galderma首席执行官Flemming Ornskov表示，CIIE不仅是一个展示其最新产品的平台，也是一个可以与其他行业参与者会面和合作的地方。
"What we provide is not merely alcohol, but it's more about a happy atmosphere and experience as consumers can purchase similar alcoholic products at supermarkets.
"The nine processes from breeding seeds to selling mushrooms merely need labor.
Merely a couple of days ahead of the announcement of the 13-vessel deal, the SASAC confirmed that six 15,500-TEU container ships for Seaspan Corp would be built by CSSC's Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding and Jiangnan Shipyard.
In storytelling techniques, how to add Chinese humor, pop culture and Chinese creative thinking mindset elements, and not merely injecting Chinese style show set designs into the equation, matter even more.
"We are also exploring not merely ways to develop in areas, covering big data and 5G, but scenarios where robots will be deployed in the future, such as garbage sorting and medical services," he said.
Analysts noted the impact of COVID-19 has been merely temporary.
In the overseas market, the payment willingness is much higher than that in the domestic market and there are merely restrictions on how long students can use electronic products," Xiong noted.
Therefore, currently, many TCM products are exported overseas merely as nutrition supplements.
Zhu said in terms of drug innovation, China has made great progress from merely a follower, to gradually catching up.
Yu Yue, a partner of Brunswick Group, said challenges brought by COVID-19 are not merely to Chinese companies who plan to go abroad but companies all over the world.
"The consequences may be devastating for Luckin, more than merely getting delisted," said Dong Dengxin, director of the Finance and Securities Institute at the Wuhan University of Science and Technology.
Statistics from the Everbright Securities show China's livestreaming market in e-commerce sector is expected to reach 440 billion yuan in 2019, with Taobao accounting for 250 billion yuan, Kuaishou 150 billion yuan and Douyin merely 40 billion.
The creation and growth of Shanghai-based China Baowu is a reflection of China's steel industry, whose total output expanded significantly from merely 158,000 tons in 1949 to 30 million tons in 1978, and it is projected to reach up to 1 billion tons this year.
"Developing in China is not merely for growth.
"Unlocking children's potential is not merely helping them grasp basic knowledge, it is more important to help them think out of the box to solve problems that arise in their daily lives," Luo Jian, CEO of online mathematical thinking platform Huohua, said.
Chen said that within 10 kilometers of each outlet, there will be about four to five Club Depot warehouses to improve the omni-shopping experiences of their members and cultivate stronger loyalty from customers than merely providing brick-and-mortar channels.
"Streit said what sets consumers in China apart from those elsewhere in the world isn't merely the fact that smartphones are the de-facto first screen for them, but it's also their primary content consumption device – more so than a TV or gaming console – and it's also virtually replaced the wallet.
"As for Nike Jordan's business blueprint in China, she said first-tier cities like Shanghai and Beijing were merely a beginning.
The report added that such maps are not merely guiding only but can be embedded with various functionalities including smart city services, tourism and ride-hailing in the future.
Compared to last year's list, a total of 25 new companies managed to list - or relist - their names among the 500 this year, with Chinese firms accounting for 13, including China Development Bank, CRRC Co Ltd, Tsingshan Holding Group, Jinchuan Group Co Ltd, Gree Electric Appliances Inc, Anhui Conch Group Co Ltd, Huaxia Life Insurance Co Ltd and Xiaomi Corp. Chinese leading smartphone maker Xiaomi was set up merely nine years ago, but already has been listed on the Global 500 for the first time this year at 468, making it the youngest firm among the 500.
Initially, there were merely 55 teams from three contest regions.
It is not merely a simple classroom.
Merely 15.1 percent are making innovations in the services they provide or in the ways they finance themselves.
Luo said the technology is not merely creating an industry, nor a cluster of industries, but an infrastructure for the full transformation of traditional enterprises.
Aware that Chinese consumers' preferences are shifting from merely purchasing expensive products to seeking out unique items that show a side of their personality, Israel said Value Retail China will deploy more resources into customized services such as offering personal styling services and general staff training at its two sites in China.
The platform aims to help build a more efficient healthcare system that centers on health promotion, instead of merely treating diseases, he said.
Jumeirah today commands a portfolio of 22 hotels across the Middle East, Europe and Asia, and has thrown its hat in the ring in the tough hotel business in China instead of merely luring Chinese tourists to their overseas hotels.
"In the past, we merely brought foreign drugs into China.
He wants each individual, even the tea lady and the receptionist, to feel a sense of belonging, as if they are co-owners and not merely employees.
"A strong fan effect is never based merely on coupons and subsidy," Wang said.
Previously, they merely relied on their stores' sales history.
Merely by creating jobs, the Chinese-run Ribest presents a miniature version of mutually beneficial economic cooperation between China and India, and contributes to local economic empowerment by changing the lives of many women.
He said BSEC is now merely evaluating the Chinese investment proposal which they sent to the regulator last week.
"The spokesperson explained that the changes were merely due to technical reasons "in relation to the long-term adaptation in the financing structure of the Deutsche Bank holdings.
In developed nations, for instance, the overseas portfolio takes up an average of 15 percent of households' total investments while, in China, the figure in the same category is merely 5 percent.
However, securing more housing resources seems to be less important than before, as Xiong Lin, CEO of the company, has merely mentioned it in the 2018 agenda.
There were even whisper campaigns that development is merely the ostensible goal of the initiative; the perceived truth was that it is China's covert attempt to emerge as a 21st-century hegemon.
While they no longer merely expect the government to provide them with good services, "they now hope for the government to help them fare better in their industrial transformation and global expansion", he said.
From this perspective, the slowdown in inflation is merely a typical response to the cyclical slowdown in the Chinese economy.
This is merely a misperception, and has damaged the reputation and high-quality development of the program.
"From a start-up with merely a small office room to a company with its products and services reaching 18 countries and regions worldwide, our development cannot be achieved without Changning district's support toward enterprises and the great talent pool of the city," said Zhou Min, a director with Shanghai Westwell Technology.
'Made in China' is no longer merely relying on 'low labor cost' and 'low materials cost', but has become more competitive through advanced technology and high productivity," the Australian executive said, noting that the path and approach of Chinese companies going global are undergoing profound changes.
Largest developing countryThe US' questioning of China's developing country status is merely based on overall trade and economic volume, deliberately overlooking the fact that the Asian country is home to a population of 1.4 billion.
Therefore, it is not appropriate to overexplain the pullback of some indicators that many are concerned about, nor should the fluctuations merely be interpreted in the current economic situation as a trend toward another bottom.
Open-AI's ChatGPT may be the most influential among all unicorns in the world, with its value soaring to 138 billion yuan ($20.06 billion) and reaching 100 million users in merely two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.
Numerous exhibitors aspire to opportunities brought by the expo, not merely to capture a greater share in the Chinese market, but also to catalyze their own product innovation and gain more steam for their recovery from the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic and other uncertainties.
More focus should be given to its strategic significance to overall development, instead of merely short-term profits.
Currently, global market demand is merely slowing in some sectors.
"Su Ganting, co-founder of Leekr Technology, a smart chassis-by-wire system solutions provider, said, "Without the great support from the local government in developing the digital economy, it is impossible for startups like us to reach mass production merely one year after foundation.
For instance, the country may promote education system reform to facilitate industrial upgrading, instead of merely using industrial policies to advance the process.
That is to say, it is not accurate to rely merely on such data to assess the real state of enterprise inventory pressure.
However, building a market merely big in scale will not necessarily reflect its strength and resilience.
"What matters more is not merely expanding market entry, but rather, building a more transparent, fair and predictable business environment that levels the playing field for all market entities," Huo said.
In 2020, the output value of the company was less than 2 billion yuan, but the figure notched up more than 10 billion yuan merely a year later.
Yet merely a few years ago, the company's products were mainly exported to overseas markets.
But such approaches merely represent scale expansion strategies.
"My knowledge about Wangfujing is that the area was a place merely for sight-seeing tourists.
"It is a groundless and unilateral move for the US to sanction these Chinese technology entities, as it disregards facts and acts merely out of its subjective will," said Zhou Mi, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.
"While the issue of distribution is critical, our goal for common prosperity shall not rely merely on distribution," he said.
However, China will not compromise on the core interests of its people or disregard widely accepted multilateral trading rules, merely in exchange for the removal of US tariffs on Chinese imports, they said.
Yet, he noted that the NBS announcement on Thursday showed tourism revenue has merely returned to about three fourth of the pre-COVID-19 level.
"From merely pursuing taste to pursuing healthy and happy lifestyles, the value that users seek is constantly being upgraded.
"The Silk Road in the past was not merely a trade path," he said.
"For instance, if some buildings are designed in a way to merely satisfy the trending aesthetics of the day and grab the eyeballs of consumers, they are destined not to be long-lasting, because perhaps five years from now, they may fall out of fashion and favor," he said.
With maximum speeds of 350 kph on many lines, the network links all of China's major mega-city clusters and has become more than merely as a faster mode of choice for domestic long-distance travel, said the report.
It also said around 8 percent of the surveyed Gen Z population said they possess at least one bag from luxury brand Hermes, while that number was merely 2 percent among those born before 1995.
Wang said that under the conditions of fierce industry competition, rice enterprises have acknowledged that merely focusing on operations cannot drive the growth of core business.
Zhu Wei, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said Guangdong, one of the country's economic powerhouses, has entered a fast development path and it would be far from enough if the province merely relies on the rapid development of the Pearl River Delta, led by Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
"The RCEP agreement is not merely about reducing or exempting tariffs.
China aims to go beyond merely meeting the high-income threshold level－advancing toward income levels in leading Western countries.
Zhou Hao, senior emerging markets economist at Commerzbank, a German lender, said the RCEP demonstrates a new international cooperation approach that incorporates opening-up of trade in services, rather than merely reducing or eliminating imports tariffs.
"When I joined Lenze in 2003, it was merely a trading company in China, much smaller than today, "said the 43-year-old.
Discussing the part he initially played in the Pudong project, Zhao, now 80, said: "From the start, the central government made it clear that Pudong was not merely an economic and technological development zone, science park, or a cultural and creative zone.
"So this year's Nov 11 event clearly carries more weight than merely being a commercial event.
"As Shenzhen positions itself at the forefront of this, the policies are not merely aspirational but backed by substantial financial commitment and with responsible units for implementing these policies, including different government departments overseeing the allocation of funds.
Featuring "just in time and customer-to-maker", the new workshop, which started operations in 2020 with the support of robotics and digital virtual technology, can run with merely five workers per shift, said Xu Xiaochun, NISCO's executive president, at a seminar during the China International Supply Chain Expo, the first of its kind in the world devoted to promoting industrial and supply chain collaboration.
Narrow money supply, or M1, which covers cash in circulation plus demand deposits, grew by merely 3.1 percent year-on-year in June, the lowest since January 2022.
In terms of technique, Chinese enterprises were merely followers.
BCI applications can help a person with cerebral injury make scrambled eggs and even catch a ball by merely thinking about such acts.
Jason Yu, general manager of Kantar Worldpanel, a global firm studying shoppers' behavior, said: "With the aging global population and drop in new births, brands are required to keep expanding their product portfolio to reach full spectrum of the life cycle, through brand extension or acquisitions to de-risk the over-exposure to merely one consumer group.
According to the State contractor, the signal interlocking upgrade project at Xinglongchang rail yard — one of the largest rail yards in the region — was completed on Thursday ahead of schedule, with construction time spanning merely three hours to avoid disruption of normal rail operations.
It should be made clear that unleashing and meeting demand for better homes cannot be achieved merely by increasing the number of larger residential properties.
"While consumers are optimistic about the emergence of more outdoor businesses, experts said a balance needs to be struck if these ventures are to operate in the long run, instead of merely being a temporary proposition.
The "IoT connections exceeding mobile users" signifies that mobile network has developed into serving thousands of industries beyond merely serving people and information consumption as it was in the past, said Yu Xiaohui, director of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology.
Due to their varied eating habits, merely 7 kilograms of snacks are consumed per person per year in China, which is less than half that of Japan (18 kg), one-fifth of the UK(36 kg) and about one-sixth of the US (42 kg), according to the research data.
"We even invested millions of yuan to do research in collaboration with colleges and universities, merely to make sure the noodles are chewy enough or can be preserved for more than four months," said Fu Yong, chairman of Chongqing Jingguyuan Food Technology Co Ltd, which joined the ready-made xiaomian fray last year.
Specifically, a Nielsen report showed that in the past 12 months, Oriental Leaf Tea Drink, a sugar-free tea brand under Nongfu Spring, reported a sales increase of 70 percent year-on-year, while the overall growth rate of China's RTD tea market was merely 0.8 percent.
"The dresses cost merely 1,500 yuan ($215), while renting from a wedding service company would require much more," said Sun.
After accumulating production and sales skills, he invested more than 50,000 yuan in establishing a workshop in Suzhou in 1994, when the country's annual average per capita income for urban residents was merely 3,179 yuan.
"It was a very niche market and we founded it merely based on the enthusiasm towards the sport rather than the idea of making a bunch of money.