Steps taken to avoid repeated investments, competition overlap; accelerate growth of enterprising pioneersChina plans to advance the strategic restructuring and professional integration of its State-owned enterprises in 2023, especially in the areas of medical and health care, equipment manufacturing and mineral resources, government officials and experts said.

为避免重复投资、竞争重叠而采取的步骤；政府官员和专家表示，中国计划在2023年推进国有企业的战略重组和专业整合，特别是在医疗保健、设备制造和矿产资源领域。

"At present, the customer acquisition channels among online education institutions overlap a lot and their ads are placed in the same place, so the effect of advertising is relatively poor," Zhai said.

"What's more, the two rivals will then seek a differentiated development strategy and reduce the overlap of users, which will help them to work together to boost the future development of the whole gaming streaming market.

In a meeting with Tencent chairman Pony Ma in Shanghai, city Party Chief Li Qiang said Tencent's business scope and strengths overlap with the municipality's goal to build a modern socialist metropolis with global influence.

so that we will see more competition and overlap in the future. "

"Alibaba's involvement with Sun Art Retail would mean too much overlap with Carrefour.

Zhao Ying, a researcher at the institute of industrial economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said the reorganization will help the two companies, whose operations overlap in the cement sector, cut excess capacity and enhance research and development ability to develop other new construction materials, preventing price wars when seeking orders in overseas markets.

In December 2016, Yonghui sold that stake to Yiguo for 850 million yuan ($125 million), citing operational changes and overlap in the two businesses.

com said its new logistics unit might overlap some delivery companies, but there would be more cooperation than competition.

The export structures of China and Vietnam are similar, and about 70 percent of the products they export overlap.

Among them, their exports of electrical and electronic equipment and parts, mechanical appliances and parts, automobiles and parts, precision instruments and equipment are relatively complementary, and those products account for 55.7 percent of total Chinese exports, while exports of furniture, textiles and clothing, toys, footwear and other products see some overlap and competition, and such products account for 13.5 percent of China's total exports.

There is a low degree of overlap for the other product categories in Chinese exports.

Similarly, although the export structures of China and member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, such as Thailand and Malaysia, have a high degree of overlap, there is also obvious complementarity in their exports of intermediate and capital goods such as electrical and electronic equipment and parts, machinery, equipment and parts.

The products with obvious competitive overlap only account for far lower percentages in the countries' total exports.

According to industry experts, there is a big overlap between healthy development of the platform economy and effective supervision of capital.

Because shareholders of the new fund company cover both centrally and locally controlled SOEs, it would coordinate resources flexibly to avoid overlap in investments, said Zhou Lisha, a researcher with the research institute of the SASAC.

Besides, since shareholders of the new fund company include both central and local SOEs, the fund can better coordinate resources of both central and local SOEs to avoid overlap in investments, he said.

"For other subtypes of tea beverages, packaged tea beverage sales will remain relatively flat due to overlap across different brands, Xiao noted, while relatively smaller players like tea powders, tea bags and other drinks will enjoy an 11.3 percent CAGR through to 2025.

"With the home appliance upgrade for the senior market and the intelligent elderly care market booming at the same time, elderly oriented smart home appliances, as an overlap area, contain huge growth space," Duan said.

The 50-50 merger is expected to offer savings of 3.7 billion euros ($4 billion), which the automakers expect to achieve without any factory closures — a concern of unions in both France and Italy where the carmakers have more overlap.

That is where the companies can expect to have the most overlap.

Because of the overlap in European operations and product, there is concern among unions about job cuts, though the companies have promised to not close any plants.

The unit, which shares little or no overlap with the manufacturer's other divisions, will change its legal structure to prepare its access to capital markets, VW said in a separate statement.

China is also the world's foremost renewable energy producer, another area where the interests of German and Chinese policymakers to transition to a greener economy overlap.

The Commission concluded that the proposed acquisition "would raise no competition concerns given that the companies' activities do not overlap in the EEA (European Economic Area)," said the EU executive arm.

"The proposed administration will help fill the regulatory vacuum caused by blurred oversight responsibilities or different regulatory standards and avoid overlap or duplication of regulation.

Wang Zhaoyu, chief analyst for quantitative strategies at CITIC Securities, said the stock index futures and options will not overlap with existing futures.

The classification criteria of China and the EU also overlap in the principles, environmental objectives and methodology of screening qualified economic activities, they said.

"Shu said the functions of payments overlap, and therefore competition actually is unavoidable.

The scope of firms listed on the new board is very likely to overlap with that of the two existing boards, whose vitality may weaken due to the more favorable listing rules of the former, Gao said.

He said that though the AIIB and the initiative are two separate initiatives, they also overlap at certain intersections and share a similar goal.

"There is overlap and there is mutual interest and mutual benefit in terms of their shared aim to promote productivity within the Asian region," he told Xinhua.

The interpretations of the crime are similar to definitions of other offenses in the law, including intentional injury, robbery, deliberate property destruction and gathering a crowd to disrupt social order, he said, adding "the similarity means that criminal provisions overlap".