He's a film nut.
他是个电影迷。
Nut contains grease.
坚果含有油脂。
What a nut she is!
她真是个疯子啊！
"At the University of Queensland in Australia, Robert Henry, professor of innovation in agriculture, and his team are using gene sequencing technology from BGI Group to conduct species cultivation research on macadamia nuts, also known as "Australian nuts", to shorten crop growth time and increase yield.
“在澳大利亚昆士兰大学，农业创新教授Robert Henry和他的团队正在利用华大基因集团的基因测序技术，对澳大利亚坚果（也称为“澳大利亚坚果”）进行物种培育研究，以缩短作物生长时间，提高产量。
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。
According to an estimate by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the global market demand for macadamia nuts is over 400,000 metric tons a year, while the current supply is less than 12.5 percent, or about 50,000 tons.
根据联合国粮食及农业组织的估计，全球市场对澳洲坚果的需求每年超过40万公吨，而目前的供应量不到12.5%，约为5万吨。
Henry, who is also director of the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, said: "When we plant the macadamia trees, it takes as long as eight years to produce crops, and many more years to produce an economic yield of nuts.
亨利也是昆士兰农业和食品创新联盟的负责人，他说：“当我们种植澳洲坚果树时，生产作物需要长达八年的时间，而生产经济产量的坚果需要更长的时间。
"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”。
"Before our tunneling machine finally reached its journey-end at Hainan Road Station, it went underneath two rivers and two bridges, and the soil down there is mainly mucky clay, making tunneling and consolidation work tough nuts to crack," he said.
他说：“在我们的隧道掘进机最终到达海南路站的终点之前，它穿过了两条河流和两座桥梁，下面的土壤主要是淤泥质粘土，这使得隧道掘进和加固工作难以破解。”。
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”。
It's just like eating nuts and seeds, and the process makes it more interesting and tasty," said Meng, a vice-president of Kofon Motion Group.
The road will end dirt road traffic in the region and improve transportation conditions for cash crops such as tea and macadamia nuts.
Due to the new road and growing income, many local farmers plan to expand the scale of their tea gardens and plant more economic crops such as macadamia nuts, bananas and sugarcane, he said.
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.
"Therefore, based on our multi-category advantage, we launched nine types of comprehensive gift baskets, combining five types of nuts with different kinds of our classical confectioneries, to meet the diversified needs in families.
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.
Lee said the company will increase its purchases of local raw materials, such as nuts, to support production in China.
"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.
Founded in 2003 and based in Hangzhou, Be & Cheery is a convenient foods company with a broad product portfolio including nuts, dried fruits, dried meat, pastries and puffed food with over 1,000 kinds of merchandise.
Wuhan-headquartered Bestore Food Co Ltd, which generates most of its sales selling meat snacks, nuts, candies and pastries, saw its suppliers in Hubei resume production on March 23.
Bestore, founded in 2006 in Wuhan, Hubei province —epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak — generated most of its sales from selling meat snacks, nuts, candies and pastries.
It has many product offerings across nuts, dried fruits, meat snacks, baked goods and confectionery.
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.
Under the deal, Bestore will purchase 300 million yuan of pine nuts from the company.
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.
ChaCha Food sows overseas success with Thai plant, and accent on healthy snacksChinese snacks are becoming popular among consumers outside the mainland, and ChaCha Food Co Ltd, a Chinese producer of roasted seeds and nuts, is all set to benefit from the trend, particularly in the United States and Indonesia.
ChaCha has been selling roasted nuts and seeds for nearly 20 years now.
Many US consumers like to have some seeds and nuts when they are watching baseball games, and others like to eat seeds with barbecue sauce for pleasure," said Wang Bin, vice-president and chief product officer of ChaCha.
Zhai Fengying, former deputy director of the Chinese Nutrition Society, said fresh nuts and seeds provide multiple nutritional components such as unsaturated fatty acids, vitamin E and flavonoids, and they are good for cardiovascular health.
It would be beneficial to eat 10 grams of nuts every day.
We would like to make the 'Made in China' label more reputable, and push forward the internationalization of ChaCha seeds and nuts.
The factory will start operations in June, and will have an annual capacity of 15,000 metric tons of seeds and nuts.
"This year, the US, China, Germany, Russia and Turkey are expected to be the top five markets for nut and seed products.
In China, Anhui Three Squirrels Electronic Commerce Co Ltd, Bestore Food Co Ltd, and Hefei Huatai Food Co Ltd, the parent group of ChaCha, enjoy the top three market shares in nuts, seeds and trail mixes.
"Wang said the brand will stick to handmade Beijing-style mooncakes made with traditional ingredients like nuts, dried oranges, rose buds and osmanthus.
Kroger Co said on Tuesday that it will sell items from its store brand Simple Truth on Alibaba's Tmall site, including Simple Truth nuts and multivitamins.
Costco, for example, sells Kirkland vitamins, nuts and other products on the site.
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.
Sihong began to cultivate the tree nuts in 2008, and now with a planting area of some 6,933 hectares, it offers around 12.5 percent of the total output of pecans in China.
The global digital trade rules on certain articles that have already been drafted herald a promising outcome, but experts said the participating parties will have tougher nuts to crack, such as permanent exemption of tariffs on electronic transmissions and cross-border data flows, and will need more time for discussions.
Imported food has increasingly become a feature on Chinese dining tables, and in addition to milk from New Zealand, coconuts from Thailand, cherries from Chile, red wine from France and pine nuts from Afghanistan are in demand.
Thanks to the trade corridor, an increasing number of products from China's inland provinces and regions along the route, such as the Ningxia Hui autonomous region's red wine and nuts from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have explored broader markets worldwide.
Afghan pine nuts have gained a reputation for excellence, yet due to past transportation constraints, their market value remained compromised.
In response, China established an "aerial corridor for pine nuts", allowing a large volume of Afghan pine nuts to enter the Chinese market.
Currently, more than 10,000 metric tons of Afghan pine nuts have been enjoyed by Chinese consumers, while Afghan farmers have reaped over 400 million yuan ($55.2 million) in revenue.
The company has exported around 60,000 tons of peanut products and 20,000 tons of nuts and other snacks worldwide since 2012.
Thanks to the trade corridor, an increasing number of products from China's inland provinces and regions along the route, such as Ningxia Hui autonomous region's red wine and nuts from Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, have explored broader markets worldwide.
Exports of aquatic products, tea, nuts and other commodities from South Asian countries to China have been increasing continuously.
Exports of aquatic products, tea, nuts and other commodities from the region to China have been continuously increasing, Li Fei, vice-minister of commerce, said at a news conference in Beijing.
Ethiopian coffee, Kenyan black tea, Tanzanian cashew nuts, chili sauce from Rwanda and chocolate from Ghana — these are among the affordable products from Africa offered to Chinese consumers, who are embracing cross-border online shopping for high-quality, imported and foreign-brand items.
Nuts, fresh oysters and frozen seafood from South Africa are also expected to be available in China in the near future, the company said.
Huang Jiangnan, head of a railway station at the port, said that more varieties of China's specialties, including goji berry products from the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, nuts from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and tea from Guizhou province, have been exported using the corridor's rail-sea intermodal services over the years.
The sales of nuts, snacks, fruits and pre-prepared dishes have also witnessed a huge increase while people are preparing for the Spring Festival.
In Tanzania, the delegation from Hunan province discussed with their local partners cooperation in agricultural fields, including the export of cassava, nuts, coffee and aquatic products to China as well as supplying agricultural machinery to the Tanzanian market.
Seen from a demographic perspective, encouraging more urbanization is a tough nut to crack in the process of achieving modernization with Chinese characteristics.
Imported goods, including Iberian ham, French wine, Afghan pine nuts, and coffee, are now easily accessible in Shanghai.
The Southeast Asian nation had shipped 24 kinds of agricultural products to China, he said in a Facebook post, adding that they included fresh bananas, milled rice, dried cassava chips, cassava starch, dried mangoes, fresh mangoes, dried rubber, cashew nuts, and cocoa powder, among others.
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 holiday also stimulated the purchase of consumer goods in rural areas such as coffee, nuts and home appliances and boosted sales for seasonal vegetables and fruits.
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).
The export volume of fruit and nuts grown in Yunnan province was around 1.08 million metric tons in 2021, ranking first in the country, with a total export value of 12.1 billion yuan ($1.91 billion), according to Kunming customs.
Both Yunnan's export volume and export value of fruit and nuts in the last year account for about one-third of the nation's total and go to more than 40 countries and regions.
Businesses' budding cross-border ties will be akin to those between 'brothers'Carpets, saffron and pine nuts are all over Ali Azghar Faiz's Chinese social media outlet.
A bottle of Afghan pine nuts plus two grams of saffron, only 180 yuan ($28.50)".
After last year's CIIE, Faiz also managed to import some raw pine nuts from his country.
Direct air-cargo arrangements for the pine nuts trade were initiated by the governments of the two countries in 2018.
It saw 3,000 to 5,000 metric tons of Afghan pine nuts exported to China every year, but the trade was briefly interrupted by turmoil in Afghanistan in August, according to Zhao Lijian, spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
By the end of January, nearly 1,600 tons of Afghan pine nuts were cleared by Shanghai Customs.
Since 2016, China has established bilateral e-commerce cooperation mechanisms with 22 countries across the world, helping a variety of products such as coffee, nuts and durian from the ASEAN countries sell well on Chinese e-commerce platforms.
The second venue, Changsha's Gaoqiao Grand Market, with a total exhibition area of about 30,000 square meters, had a permanent exhibition pavilion, and five specific areas for coffee, nuts, cocoa, other agricultural products from Africa and Chinese products exported to Africa.
The expo in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province, features exhibitions on the fruits of China-Africa economic cooperation, African brand commodities and specialty products such as coffee and nuts.
Popular during the Mid-Autumn Festival, the round cakes are mainly stuffed with sweet bean paste, lotus seeds, roasted pork, nuts and egg yolk, sesame and fruit.
After consumers register for a blind box service, they will receive a box of snacks each month, like potato chips, nuts, dry fruits, without having any idea what they might receive in the box.
Under such circumstances, Chinese companies in both public and private sectors may want to deploy more resources to modernize industrial chains and crack open certain hard nuts like bottlenecks in technological advancements, in order to develop the country into a manufacturing powerhouse.
Xiao urged efforts to modernize industrial chains and "crack hard nuts" such as bottlenecks in technological advancement to develop the country into a manufacturing powerhouse.
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.
They are the dense Cantonese version with glazed crust and salted egg yolk filling, the flaky iteration originating in Jiangsu province and Shanghai and the Beijing variation stuffed with nuts, red bean paste and date paste.
Traditional mooncakes stuffed with sweet bean paste, lotus seeds, roasted pork, nuts and egg yolk are the most popular among consumers, the report said.
It's good to see the progress of REITs, but there are also some hard nuts to crack.
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.
The report from Ourui showed that in 2022, among all snacks consumed by Chinese consumers, flavored snacks — including meat, salty and fried nuts — were the most popular categories taking up 38 percent, while pastries took up 34 percent.
To embrace the health trend, domestic snack company Liangpinpuzi launched a healthy sub-brand Liangpin Feiyang, while fresh nuts manufacturer ChaCha Food Co Ltd launched a high-end sub-brand Kuizhen featuring healthiness, with the price of its products surpassing 100 yuan.
Known for rich nutrition, nuts are widely regarded as the most healthy between-meal snacks, and along with Chinese people's rising awareness of eating healthily, this specific category has seen its market scale expand rapidly from 95.4 billion yuan in 2015 to 141.5 billion yuan in 2020 at a CAGR of 8.2 percent, possibly reaching a sales revenue of 217.3 billion yuan by 2025, the report added.
Although China has become the world's third-largest nuts market after the EU and the US, the average consumption per person in China is even lower than the global average.
And this year, the association decided to debut a new product — Sri Lankan cashews — due to the premium quality of the nuts.
In 2001, China imported $15.22 billion of dried and fresh fruits and nuts, of which five ASEAN member states — Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Cambodia and Malaysia — accounted for more than 60 percent.
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.
Omer Faruk Erbil, co-owner of Unal Dried Nuts in Turkey's capital of Ankara, is hopeful about the future of transactions with their Chinese counterparts.
Turkey has set its sight 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 nuts, and fisheries producers.
Omer Faruk Erbil, co-owner of Unal Dried Nuts located in Turkey's capital city of Ankara, which joined for the first time in the CIIE held in November last year, is hopeful for the future of transactions with Chinese counterparts.