Amid a sharp slowdown in global economic growth, the Chinese economy remains strong, injecting impetus into the sluggish world economy, Alexandre said.
Alexandre说，在全球经济增长急剧放缓的情况下，中国经济依然强劲，为低迷的世界经济注入了动力。
To better adapt to China's current relatively sluggish property market, many listed property developers have been actively taking steps to restructure their debts.
为了更好地适应中国目前相对低迷的房地产市场，许多上市房地产开发商一直在积极采取措施重组债务。
Despite the overall sluggish performance of the water and housing industry, due to economic slowdown, the Japanese company Lixil managed to see its project volume seeking two-digit growth in China, Tao Jiang, CEO of Lixil Water Technology for China.
立信水务科技中国区首席执行官陶江表示，尽管水务和住宅行业整体表现低迷，但由于经济放缓，日本立信公司在中国的项目量仍在寻求两位数的增长。
According to the China Machinery Industry Federation, in the first half, the construction machinery industry saw a decline in sales of excavators and loaders by 24 percent and 13.3 percent year-on-year, respectively, due to sluggish construction of real estate and cyclical factors.
根据中国机械工业联合会的数据，上半年，由于房地产建设不景气和周期性因素，工程机械行业挖掘机和装载机的销量分别同比下降24%和13.3%。
"Alibaba's cloud business has become a key growth engine and pivot apart from its core e-commerce unit, but it also faces sluggish growth in revenue," said Zhang Zhouping, a senior analyst of business-to-business and cross-border activities at the Internet Economy Institute, a domestic consultancy.
国内咨询公司互联网经济研究所的企业对企业和跨境活动高级分析师张周平表示：“阿里巴巴的云业务已成为其核心电子商务部门之外的关键增长引擎和支点，但它也面临着收入增长乏力的问题。”。
Analysts cited challenges, including sluggish market demand, huge investment and pandemic-related difficulties, for the decision.
分析人士指出，这一决定面临的挑战包括市场需求低迷、巨额投资和与疫情相关的困难。
The company's net profit attributable to shareholders slumped by 38 percent to 25.416 billion yuan due to the slow down economic growth and the sluggish capital market in the first half.
由于上半年经济增长放缓和资本市场低迷，该公司股东应占净利润暴跌38%，至254.16亿元。
He noted that some other categories including apparel, alcohol and smartphones saw sluggish growth.
他指出，包括服装、酒类和智能手机在内的其他一些类别增长缓慢。
A key to reviving business is to salvage consumer power as their willingness to spend remains sluggish at home.
重振企业的一个关键是挽救消费者的力量，因为他们在国内的消费意愿仍然低迷。
With the recent resurgence of local COVID-19 cases, domestic air travel demand has been sluggish over the past few months, and a large number of flights were canceled due to low passenger load factors.
随着最近当地新冠肺炎病例的回升，国内航空旅行需求在过去几个月一直低迷，大量航班因载客率低而取消。
Forbes said war, pandemic and sluggish markets hit the world's billionaires this year.
《福布斯》表示，战争、疫情和低迷的市场今年打击了全球亿万富翁。
Industry experts said the tech heavyweight is still facing enormous challenges and pressure in regaining Chinese consumers' confidence and rejuvenating its sluggish sales in the world's largest smartphone market.
行业专家表示，这家科技巨头在重振中国消费者信心和重振其在全球最大智能手机市场低迷的销售方面仍面临巨大挑战和压力。
Cutting-edge semiconductor display technologies, including organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and mini light-emitting diodes (mini LED), are injecting new impetus into the sluggish global television market and bolstering the transformation and upgrading of the traditional home appliance industry, industry insiders said.
It has also given the sluggish world economy an impetus for growth," Zang said.
"Although many offline events were canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CIIE injected confidence into the sluggish global economy," Wang added.
Despite the progress, Oppo still faced challenges such as sluggish global smartphone market and strong competition from rivals.
The spread of the epidemic in Japan and a drop in Chinese visitors resulted in sluggish sales of the product.
They were pessimistic about sales growth on the major shopping festival due to weak consumer spending and sluggish economic growth and some even raised speculation that the sales figures were faked, he said.
Bullish on China's market prospects, the ERG chairman said he sees "no problem" even if the country's growth rate slows down a bit given the sluggish global economy.
Microvast is one of several local enterprises that are busy expanding to other emerging markets or looking at higher domestic consumption to cushion sluggish sales in the US.
Despite sluggish sales for gasoline-powered vehicles, the NEV market has experienced a boom in China.
But by July last year, it withdrew from markets in several countries due to sluggish development and higher costs.
DJI, the world's largest commercial drone manufacturer by market share, has unveiled its portable handheld camera, the Osmo Pocket, in a bid to gain a bigger share of the professional photography and video sector, amid sluggish growth in China's consumer drone market.
Wang Yanhui, secretary-general of the Mobile China Alliance, said domestic suppliers might be heavily affected due to the sluggish sales of Apple's iPhone, adding that Apple may bargain with suppliers to ensure its profit margins.
Arm Little Swan's recast, halt in share trade aimed at overcoming sluggish salesMidea Group, a Chinese home appliances maker, plans to restructure its assets that include subsidiary Wuxi Little Swan Co, a washing machine maker, so as to strengthen the business segment.
Yet, Little Swan's sales growth in high-end products has been sluggish.
However, Chinese sales remained sluggish.
The German sportswear giant retreated from winter sports amid a sluggish market for ski equipment, though Salomon's sports shoes have been a hit since then.
"Looking back, the thorny road of the past six years reflects the experiences of domestic cartoon producers as many of them have disappeared or seen sluggish development amid cutthroat competition," said Shang You, CEO and founder of Nice Boat.
"Echoing Shang, Li Zibiao, an official from the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, where more than 800 cartoon and cultural creativity firms are located, said sluggish cartoon firms are advised to employ restructuring strategies such as transforming to esports games and convergence of cultural industries.
The company's increasing use of the internet of things and its subsequent growth have managed to offset the impact of the sluggish garment retail sales in China on the sector's fortunes.
The move is part of Mattel's efforts to revive its sluggish business, as demand for traditional toys has declined in the face of the soaring popularity of video games and social media, as well as competition from smaller toy factories.
TCL said although the company is actively promoting strategic adjustment and business restructuring, its handsets sales in overseas markets continue to be sluggish and the overall performance of TCL Communication is poor.
The sluggish sales of its handsets dragged down TCL's overall performance.
China's giant personal computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd posted a quarterly loss on Friday－blaming higher costs and sluggish sales in the personal computer and smartphone market.
In March, it unveiled its flagship smartphones Galaxy S8 and S8+, aiming to restore consumer confidence and rejuvenate sluggish sales affected by the battery fiasco related to its Galaxy Note7 smartphone last year.
This was due to sluggish growth at Pizza Hut amid a turnaround drive.
Experts said this move marks the end of a high-profile battle for control of the company, but concerns remain that its stock price is still sluggish.
The chain is reeling from tumbling sales and sluggish shopping-mall traffic.
The domestic baby formula market has been sluggish due to weakening trust of Chinese consumers in local products.
A QING / FOR CHINA DAILYOnce leading women's shoe maker facing sluggish businessBelle International Holdings Ltd－the former No 1 women's shoemaker in the Chinese mainland－is looking at going private, a decade after its debut on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, due to the sluggish footwear business.
China is briskly fostering new competitive edges from electric cars to e-commerce platforms to stabilize foreign trade this year against the backdrop of a sluggish global economy.
China's economy showed bumpy recovery with its main goals achieved successfully in 2023, although the country faced multiple challenges, including a sluggish global economic recovery, news outlet Yicai reported on Tuesday.
However, weighed down by sluggish external demand, rising trade protectionism, intensifying geopolitical tensions and recent disruptions to key trade routes, the country may still face severe challenges, they added, calling for more favorable policies to help businesses navigate the mounting headwinds in trade.
While acknowledging risks and challenges, such as sluggish external demand, it's equally important to understand that the economic fundamentals that will sustain long-term growth remain unchanged, Wang said.
"China's steady economic growth and ongoing technological advancement will provide vast opportunities for private sector development, while the sector's constituent businesses will also face pressures from the sluggish global economic recovery, the rise of trade protectionism and intensified market competition.
There was a strong rebound in the first quarter due to adjusted COVID-19 policies, but weaker growth in the second quarter amid sluggish domestic and external demand, renewed property sector weakness and rising local government debt pressures.
The global economy continues to grapple with an arduous recovery process, and the pace of global trade revival remains sluggish, He said.
Both the IMF and the World Bank have cited continued weakness in the real estate sector and persistently sluggish global demand as factors that clouded the outlook.
Despite the improvement in the latest PMI reading, Wang cautioned that external demand remained sluggish, and employment was still weak.
Since the beginning of this year, despite a sluggish global economic recovery, the BRI has continued to show strong resilience in development.
He said global economic recovery remains shaky, with the momentum being weakened by several factors, while trade and investment remain sluggish.
"However, the continued sluggish prices of various goods and services other than food are the fundamental reason for the recent low price level.
Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Bank, said that China's inflation may remain subdued for a quarter before moderately recovering early next year, given that domestic demand improves slower than supply while external demand may remain sluggish.
Policies, globalization stance good for R&D, innovation, recovery, execs sayChina's enduring commitment to long-term high-level openness, as underscored by the annual China International Import Expo, will continue to be key to fostering global business collaborations and facilitating trade partnerships amid sluggish global economic recovery, said market watchers and global business leaders on Tuesday.
The appeal of the CIIE has grown against headwinds, including a sluggish global economic recovery, anti-globalization waves, and the COVID pandemic.
Despite some signs of improvement, prices are still generally sluggish.
Prospects bright as restrictions on foreign access to manufacturing to endMultinational companies have vowed to deepen ties in China, as the country's new industrialization push brings vast new opportunities in advanced manufacturing and digital transformation amid sluggish global economic recovery.
Tu Xinquan, head of the China Institute for WTO Studies, which is part of the University of International Business and Economics, said since global trade and investment remain sluggish amid rising geopolitical tensions and a gloomy world economic outlook, the CIIE will help foster collaboration in various sectors and inject new energy into the global economy for inclusive growth.
This is surely due to weakening external demand, declining exports and more importantly, overcapacity due to sluggish demand at home and abroad after years of rapid expansion in some manufacturing sectors.
BEIJING — Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative has been a key force driving global growth over the past decade as the global economy faces mounting challenges, including a sluggish recovery and rising protectionism.
China's economic recovery is gathering pace, with consistent and steady progress expected in the fourth quarter despite downward pressures like the sluggish global economy, according to experts at a forum hosted by China News Service in Beijing on Wednesday.
"When income does not grow and debt is very high, debt payments will become a burden forcing households and enterprises to reduce investment and consumption in order to repay loans, leading to sluggish economic growth," said Lin, a former senior vice-president and chief economist at the World Bank.
Sluggish global economic growth subdues demand for Chinese products, affecting domestic investment and consumption, he said.
He said multinationals can lend international experience to the projects as well as technology and strong brand names, while they can benefit from taking part in such projects by obtaining additional business, especially given the sluggish global economy.
Targets are the most sluggish areas of development, which tackle bottlenecks in African countries, the report said, adding China's Africa policy is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals.
"China's economy is nowhere near a state where the economy is seeing very sluggish demand and low credit or money supply growth.
Nevertheless, Khor acknowledged that China's inflation will likely remain low for the remainder of the year, thanks in part to bumper food harvests as well as weakness in consumer spending due to spillovers from the sluggish real estate sector and external demand.
Although the current sluggish US home inventory situation has accelerated new home sales and a recovery in housing investment confidence, the increase in existing home inventory is expected to begin to dampen residential property investment growth by the end of the year due to the implementation of the Housing Supply Action Plan introduced by the current US administration.
"China's economy is nowhere near a state where the economy is seeing very sluggish demand and low credit or money supply growth – conditions usually associated with deflation.
Firstly, the global economy is experiencing a sluggish recovery, leading to a lack of enthusiasm for cross-border investments worldwide.
Fine-tuning of measures, targeted moves will address industry concernsChina will roll out a raft of well-focused policy steps to sustain the sound momentum of its foreign trade, which has been resilient and stable in the first eight months of the year despite sluggish global economic and trade growth, said the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing on Thursday.
China's foreign trade demonstrated strong resilience and maintained stable performance in the first eight months of the year amid sluggish global economic and trade growth, and the country will take more targeted steps to sustain its growth momentum, said Ministry of Commerce on Thursday.
However, if the corporate sector, in a low return-on-investment environment, transfers its income to the consumer sector via dividends, thereby increasing income and consumption potential of consumers, the gap left by sluggish investment will be compensated by strong consumption, allowing domestic demand to remain at levels that match supply.
While the broader economy still faces pressure and challenges from ongoing stress in the property sector, sluggish exports and weak private investment sentiment, a raft of recently announced targeted pro-growth policy measures will help deal with the issues, he added.
As the global economy is dealing with a sluggish recovery and cross-border investment remains lackluster, China has intensified efforts to boost its foreign investment inflow, unveiling 24 targeted policy measures in mid-August.
Latest data shows that China's economy continues to recover but the problem of sluggish demand remains prominent.
Some gloomy views suggest that, weighed down by the rapidly aging population, sluggish property market, faltering private firms and rising geopolitical tensions, households and businesses have begun to lower their expectations of China's long-term growth prospects and adjusted their economic behavior accordingly.
In April, as pent-up demand was fully released, it was widely recognized that sluggish demand existed across sectors and thus economic expectations were lowered, which enhanced the mutual reinforcement between the scarring effects and liquidity pressures in the real estate market.
In the first half of the year, China recorded a 5.5-percent GDP expansion, the fastest among major economies globally and a hard-won performance amid a complicated external environment and a sluggish world economy.
Despite a sluggish global economy, China has managed to keep foreign investment relatively stable.
The COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical conflicts, and trade and investment protectionism have led to sluggish world economic recovery and cross-border investment.
During the three-year pandemic period, China's capital market was relatively sluggish, leading to undervalued shares.
He said that China now faces mounting pressures from insufficient demand and weak confidence with a confluence of problems including flagging exports, the crisis-ridden property sector, sluggish consumer spending and souring private investments.
Of late, China's foreign trade has been facing headwinds, induced by factors such as sluggish external demand and rising costs, as well as geopolitical tensions.
Diversification strategyChina is vigorously exploring emerging markets and diversifying its trade partners, against a backdrop of sluggish demand in developed economies and increased geopolitical uncertainty.
Weighed down by factors such as sluggish global demand, especially in developed markets, rising production costs and supply chain adjustments, textile and apparel industries are facing mounting pressure in sustaining stable export growth, Yang said.
At present, the performance of these industries is still relatively sluggish, resulting in negative growth in private investment.
It is impossible to rely only on State-owned enterprises to spur the nation's economy with a sluggish private sector.
Local governments in China should step up efforts to spur investment and boost consumer spending to tackle the dual challenges of sluggish domestic and external demand, experts said on Friday.
As a major manufacturing country, China shares an external environment similar to that in those two nations, highlighted by sluggish demand.
China's exports of solar batteries, lithium-ion batteries, and electric vehicles soared amid sluggish global trade.
Strong domestic demandChina's economic growth is precious as it came against the backdrop of sluggish global growth this year, Wichai Kinchong Choi, senior vice president of leading Thai bank Kasikornbank, said in a recent interview with Xinhua.
Despite sluggish external market demand, Guangdong's exports hit a record high of more than 2.55 trillion yuan ($360 billion) in the first half of the year, up year-on-year by 3.6 percent, Guangdong Customs revealed on Wednesday.
They also urged more policy support to cope with weakening external demand and potential risks, as global economic recovery remains sluggish, major developed economies are adopting contractionary policies, and various factors increase market instability and uncertainty.
Peng said he believed China's current potential growth rate will be above 6 percent, attributing the recent difficulties to the blow of the pandemic and the sluggish investment and trade environment at both home and abroad.
However, business confidence for the coming 12 months slipped to an eight-month low in June, as some manufacturers expressed concerns over relatively sluggish market conditions.
However, this business confidence for the coming 12 months slipped to an eight-month low in June, as some manufacturers expressed concerns over relatively sluggish market conditions.
He also said China's potential growth rate is above 6 percent, attributing the recent hiccup to the blow of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as various factors amid the sluggish international investment and trade environment.
Export orders continued a downward slide due to sluggish overseas demand in May.