The price of the nut has remained high in the international market, mainly due to the serious imbalance between supply and demand.

坚果在国际市场上的价格一直居高不下，主要是由于供需严重失衡。

"The cooperation between CATL and Primergy Solar has set a good example of joint efforts to crack the hard nut of the new energy development. "

“CATL与Primergy Solar的合作树立了一个共同努力破解新能源发展难题的良好榜样。”

In addition, after the relocation work－thanks to the combined efforts of the SOE and seven municipal departments－the project team faced tunneling work following an underground path passing over the Nanjing-Qidong Railway, another hard nut to crack for the team.

此外，在国有企业和七个市政部门的共同努力下，搬迁工作完成后，项目组面临着穿过宁启铁路的地下通道的隧道施工，这是项目组面临的另一个难题。

"Aside from the impact from the Ulan Buh Desert, what made protection work even harder is that the area is confronting multiple impacts brought by the environmental issues of neighboring areas, such as water and soil erosion at Wula Mountain and landslide issues in nearby mining areas," said Jia Haiyuan, project manager with Third Construction Co Ltd of China Construction First Group (CSCEC1B3), a unit of China State Construction Engineering Group Co Ltd. With the area facing tough and numerous environmental issues, Ulansuhai Nur has an area "awaiting cleanup" of its 14,700 square kilometers, making it the "hardest nut to crack" among its peers, which was exactly what the company was facing back in June 2019, when it came here to work with the local government to make fundamental changes to the area.

中建一集团第三建筑有限公司（CSCEC1B3）项目经理贾海元表示：“除了乌兰布沙漠的影响外，使保护工作更加困难的是，该地区还面临着周边地区环境问题带来的多重影响，如乌拉山的水土流失和附近矿区的滑坡问题。”，作为中国建筑工程集团有限公司旗下的子公司，由于该地区面临着严峻和众多的环境问题，乌兰海努尔有14700平方公里的“待清理”区域，成为同行中“最难解决的问题”，这正是该公司在2019年6月面临的问题，当它来到这里与当地政府合作，对该地区进行根本性的改变时。

There are 27 bridges planned in the project, which have a total length of 37.7 km and six tunnels at 6.4 km, including the 1,353-meter Dangyang tunnel, which became a "hard nut to crack" throughout the whole construction project.

该项目规划桥梁27座，总长37.7公里，隧道6座，长6.4公里，其中1353米的当阳隧道成为贯穿整个建设项目的“难啃的硬骨头”。

There are 27 bridges planned in the project, which have a total length of 37.7 km, and six tunnels, 6.4 km, including the 1,353-meter-long Dangyang tunnel, a 'hard nut to crack' over the whole construction project.

该项目规划有27座桥梁，总长37.7公里，6座隧道，6.4公里，其中包括1353米长的当阳隧道，这是整个建设项目的“难题”。

The tonnage and size of the modules are 1.5 times that of regular ones, with a single deck weighing nearly 700 metric tons, which was "a hard nut to crack during production".

模块的吨位和尺寸是普通模块的1.5倍，单层重量近700公吨，这是“生产过程中难以破解的难题”。

For the first time, it launched a gift box which combines nuts and confectioneries, looking for a breakthrough point in the nut consumption sector.

Data from CBNData, a Shanghai-based market data analytics provider, showed that between 2018 and 2019, China's high-quality nut consumption sector grew at an annual compound growth rate of 20 percent.

"In the recent years, the nut consumption market has reached a relatively saturated level, and simple nut products in the market are nothing new now.

Based on our business observation, we found that compared to simple nut products, to mix and match nuts with other snacks may win the favor of customers," said Seon Tsai, deputy marketing director of Hsu Fu Chi.

The company introduced new products — including bottled water from Jeju Island and nut bars — during the third China International Import Expo held in Shanghai earlier this month.

"Under the new deal, visitors to the Shanghai Disneyland can also taste the golden pineapple seafood fried rice, sweet banana mixed nut cake and other special fruit snacks co-developed by Dole and Shanghai Disneyland.

The company launched "BE-KIND", a popular nut bar brand in the United States, as a new healthy snack product for Chinese consumers at the CIIE.

At the expo, Pakistani pine nut company Halo Foods inked a deal with Chinese snack startup Bestore.

The purchase amount of pine nuts by Bestore accounts for 10 to 20 percent of Pakistan's annual pine nut exports on average, he said.

Chinese snack company Bestore signed a deal with Pakistan pine nut provider worth 300 million yuan ($42 million) on Wednesday as the company furthers overseas efforts with opportunities brought by the Belt and Road Initiative.

With the new move, Halo Foods, Pakistan's largest pine nut purchase and processing firm, will continue to offer pine nuts to the Chinese firm, also known as Liangpinpuzi, following their cooperation for over ten years.

Hand-peeled pine nuts is now one of the most expensive nut products for Bestore, but both demand and output has grown rapidly with an annual increase of 20 percent, according to Yang Yinfen, CEO and president of Bestore.

"This year, the US, China, Germany, Russia and Turkey are expected to be the top five markets for nut and seed products.

Since the Shanxi-based Taiyuan Iron & Steel Co Ltd, or Tisco, managed to crack the hard nut, the biggest ballpoint pen manufacturing giant in the world will no longer depend on imports of stainless steel to produce the writing instrument.

Seen from a demographic perspective, encouraging more urbanization is a tough nut to crack in the process of achieving modernization with Chinese characteristics.

In this regard, maintaining high investment enthusiasm throughout the year is a hard nut to crack.

It is thus another hard nut that the government has to crack to help players make investments or lead investments in such projects, and lay foundations for the building of a unified domestic market.

The target is also a hard nut that must be cracked to meet the requirements of the overall goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-25).

Young shoppers are more inclined to place orders while watching livestreaming sessions, which boost sales of agricultural products like oranges, cherries, tea, seasoned duck and nut gift boxes, Taobao said.

Among these projects, companies from both sides plan to build a large China-Africa nut industry park in China within three to five years, and achieve an annual revenue of more than 2 billion yuan.

pastries traditionally featuring lotus seed paste, red bean or nut fillings - are eaten and shared throughout the festival.

Turkey has set its sights on exporting $1 billion worth of food products to China over the next two years, according to the EIB, which includes Turkey's biggest fruit, vegetable, dairy, dried nut, and fisheries producers.

"Hainan cocoa beans have a very unique flavor, with strong red fruit and nut flavors," Huestch said, adding that he would recommend his chocolate products made with Hainan beans to US consumers.

Among her favorites are milk varieties made of rice, soybean and cashew nut.

Three Squirrels, a seven-year-old snack producer founded in Wuhu city of Anhui province, has built its nut empire quickly by selling online.

China is the second-largest nut producer worldwide, accounting for 10 percent of the world's total production.

By 2023, nut sales are expected to reach $5.35 billion in China, up 13.8 percent from expected tallies in 2019, according to market research provider Euromonitor International.

Chinese people's increasing awareness of healthy lifestyles is influencing the nut snack industry, experts familiar with the matter said.

Sales in the industry have grown fast because people consider nuts as healthy snacks, and at the same time, nut snacks that are original flavor, organic or packaged in small portions with mixed nuts are increasingly popular, according to Wang Yingyao, academic and fund management director with the Chinese Nutrition Society.

"Statistics have shown that the rising rate of nut consumption in China is much faster than other snack items," she said, adding that sales of nuts in China were about 55.6 billion yuan ($8.14 billion) in 2014, and are expected to exceed 100 billion yuan in 2020.

The average price of nut snacks -- above 60 yuan per kilogram -- is the highest among all snack foods, and the most popular nuts among Chinese customers are macadamia nuts, pine nuts, pecans, almonds and sunflower seeds.

The experts made the remarks at a recent nut health and nutrition forum held in Beijing.

Managing and utilizing the land has always been a hard nut to crack for agricultural technicians, as it is a potential resource for safeguarding the country's food security.