China is facing a
steep decline in the birth rate.
中国正面临出生率的急剧下降。
There is a
steep rise in unemployment this month.
本月失业率急剧上升。
Xian is a city
steeped in history
西安是座历史古城。
She helped me
steep the tea in the hot water.
她帮我把茶泡在热水里。
The road passes over a steep mountain.
这条路翻越一架陡峭的高山。
This hill is too steep to ride upon a bicycle.
这山太陡，不能骑自行车上去。
Mo said Chinese online retailers have ramped up efforts to offer steep discounts and adopted low-price strategies to obtain a new breed of users and improve user loyalty and repurchase rates.
莫表示，中国在线零售商加大了提供大幅折扣的力度，并采取了低价策略来获得新一代用户，提高用户忠诚度和复购率。
This year's festival has seen major e-commerce platforms provide steep discounts and low-priced products to boost sales, with domestic brands becoming more popular among Chinese consumers.
今年的电影节上，各大电子商务平台提供了大幅折扣和低价产品来提高销售额，国产品牌在中国消费者中越来越受欢迎。
Chinese e-commerce giant JD said it will kick off the pre-sale for this year's Singles Day shopping carnival at 8 pm on Oct 23, one week earlier than in previous years, and offer steep discounts and shopping coupons on over 800 million products.
中国电子商务巨头京东表示，将于10月23日晚8点开启今年光棍节购物狂欢节的预售，比往年提前一周，并为超过8亿件商品提供大幅折扣和购物优惠券。
"It has quite steep slopes, which cause rapid elevation changes," said Zhu.
朱说：“这里的坡度很陡，海拔变化很快。”。
Amazon kicked off this year's Black Friday shopping festival on Friday, promising to offer steep discounts on nearly 2 million authentic products covering about 20,000 international brands from four sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.
亚马逊于周五拉开了今年黑色星期五购物节的序幕，承诺为来自美国、英国、日本和德国四个网站的近200万件正品提供大幅折扣，涵盖约2万个国际品牌。
One part of the road is in an area of very steep terrain, along cliffs facing the ocean, and access is quite difficult for the builders, vehicles and machinery, Xiong said.
熊说，这条路的一部分位于地势非常陡峭的地区，沿着面向大海的悬崖，建设者、车辆和机械都很难进入。
According to its first-quarter results, the China market has seen sales decrease at a steep double-digit rate.
US equities finished sharply higher on Monday with the Dow surging nearly 1,300 points, as Wall Street attempted to recover from last week's steep losses.
In China, Mizone sales slowed down at a steep double-digit rate in a context of paused investments in the quarter, ahead of the repositioning plan initially set for March 2020 to revitalize the brand.
"The steep price might hinder the popularity of foldable smartphones, and such gadgets will be accepted by more consumers should the price be set in a range from 9,000 yuan ($1,342) to 10,000 yuan," said James Yan, research director at Counterpoint Technology Market Research.
Woo added that the company was still evaluating its options for Wisconsin but he cited the steep cost of making advanced TV screens in the United States, where labor expenses are comparatively high.
It later said it would build smaller LCD screensWoo told Reuters that the company was still evaluating options for Wisconsin but he cited the steep cost of making advanced TV screens in the United States.
"The delay is largely due to worries that the steep global stock market sell-off might affect the pricing," said Neil Wang, president of consultancy Frost&Sullivan China.
Meanwhile, the US-China trade tensions with steep tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods is something the firm "will manage through", regardless of what happens, said Walmart Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs.
Recent high steel mill profitability has also allowed producers to afford steep premiums for higher grade ores, leading to an even greater difference in price across varying grades.
There were some worries that the facility may be affected by the Trump administration's recent moves to impose steep tariffs on Chinese goods.
Trump recently imposed steep tariffs on aluminum and steel imported from Canada, Mexico and Europe in his bid to level the trade playing field and reduce trade deficits between the US and its trade partners.
"Speaking of the possible negative impact of the current trade frictions between the United States and China, Carlstrom said the AGDC is paying close attention to the tensions, which came after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose steep tariffs on Chinese imports worth up to $60 billion.
Against the steep tariffs imposed by the United States and the European Union, along with rising Chinese labor costs in coastal cities, local solar panel companies have been moving their manufacturing abroad and speeding up construction of factories in countries participating in the initiative.
"Eskelund said that not everything will continue to go upwards at a steep incline forever, and it is natural that a very steep growth rate will moderate at some point in time.
Era of high-tech, stiff competition, big data pushes large firms to change focusCompetition in China's online shopping sector is heating up as major e-commerce platforms are offering steep discounts and low-priced products to attract price-sensitive consumers and drum up sales during the year-end shopping extravaganza, experts said.
Also known as 11-11 or Double Eleven, this year's festival will see major e-commerce platforms provide steep discounts and low-priced products.
The National Highway 318 linking Tibet and neighboring Sichuan, known for steep mountains and rugged terrain, has been bustling with travelers and adventure lovers, while obtaining tickets to visit the iconic Potala Palace and other prominent tourist sites has unexpectedly become more challenging.
Chinese consumers' passion for online purchases has been sparked again with this year's June 18 shopping carnival, which more resembles a shopping month, as related online purchases kicked off at 8 pm on Wednesday, with major e-commerce platforms accelerating efforts to offer steep discounts and shopping coupons and use livestreaming promotions to boost sales.
According to him, the very rapid and steep rise in interest rates, although necessary to tame inflation, does impact banks.
Second, the US Federal Reserve's steep interest rate hikes may continue to escalate global market volatility.
This year, we are also facing negative growth — a steep downward line of 6 percent to 7 percent recorded in the fourth quarter — for which corresponding moves to expand domestic demand and stabilize growth will also be likely.
Recent indicators of the country's factory activity and inflation have shown a steep upward trajectory, resulting in raised projections.
Inflation will be less steep in 2023, which provides room for further monetary easing in China.
Wang Yun, a researcher at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research, said major online retailers have stepped up efforts to offer steep discounts and shopping coupons during the midyear shopping festival, which not only stimulated purchasing by consumers that was dampened by COVID-19 flare-ups, but also bolstered the recovery of the economy.
"The LAC and China have witnessed a steep increase in trade over the past 20 years," said Fernando Lugris, Uruguay's ambassador to China.
Uruguay's Ambassador to China Fernando Lugris noted that the LAC and China have witnessed a steep increase in trade over the past 20 years.
With its customary steep discounts and shopping coupons, Singles Day reinforced an incontrovertible fact: China is the world's preeminent go-to market for products, brands, service providers, technologies, manufacturers and traders.
I tried to stay rational, but some presale commodities with steep discounts recommended by Viva stimulated my desire to shop.
To capture user attention, brands typically offer steep discounts or rebate cash-equivalent sample products in livestreaming sessions.
The sporadic outbreaks of COVID-19 and natural disasters such as floods hindered travel and held back consumption during the summer holiday, NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui said, adding that the high base factor also resulted in the steep year-on-year drop.
Beverage sector revenue fell 4 percent, reflecting the steep decline in social gatherings at home and reduced gifting occasions.
During the period, Shanxi's exports soared to 68.79 billion yuan, a steep increase of 120.2 percent from the same period in 2020.
Meanwhile, Shanxi's foreign trade with countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative reached 26.09 billion yuan, a steep year-on-year increase of 107.5 percent.
The Shanghai branch of China Mobile, the country's top telecom carrier, is dishing out a number of perks such as steep subsidies and preferential after-sales services for individual purchases of 5G smartphones.
"Bucking the trend of a steep decline in global trade, China Railway Express broke the mark of 10,000 trips for the first time," he said.
Originating from China's bustling digital media landscape, livestreaming has moved quickly from the periphery to the mainstream, with businesses engaging with customers in smartphone-based broadcast shows in which they market products and often offer steep discounts.
Meituan Dianping has launched a community group-purchase model called Meituan Select, which mainly aims at lower-tier cities, and sells fresh foods, including fruits and vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs, snacks, alcohol and beverages at steep discounts.
"The pandemic has severely hit developed countries, causing a steep reduction in the degree of their centrality in trade networks, but has not affected the central position of China," the article argued.
Over the last six years, the company has seen steep growth from a small team of nine to a professional cloud product and service provider with around 400 employees.
On Tuesday, Sun Dongxu, then CEO of East Buy, said in a livestream that neither the editorial team nor Dong had behaved appropriately, adding that Dong is treated well by the company and draws a steep annual salary.
Amazon China Global Store, US tech company Amazon's cross-border shopping platform for Chinese consumers, has kicked off this year's Black Friday shopping season, offering steep discounts on more than 2 million products covering about 20,000 international brands from four overseas sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.
As one of the most typical areas in the world for karst landform development, mountainous Guizhou Province, of which Guiyang is the capital city, witnessed the miraculous journey of the train through its high mountains and steep valleys.
When millions begin to throng such venues, especially ski resorts and hotels with similar features that have mushroomed nationwide in recent times, rise in vacation sales is expected to be inversely correlated to steep drops in winter temperature.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd kicked off its presale for the Singles Day shopping festival at 8 pm on Monday, promising to offer steep discounts and shopping coupons on some 17 million products from 290,000 brands worldwide and empower small and medium-sized merchants.
Zhong Xinlong, a senior consultant at the Beijing-based China Center for Information Industry Development Consultancy, said the new restrictions add further pressure to the global semiconductor industry, which is already suffering a steep drop in demand for personal computers and smartphone components.
Despite a slump in footfall, both Meituan and Eleme, two leading food delivery service providers, reported a steep rise in takeout orders during the holiday.
In October, a property project in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, was requested to sell at normal prices, as the project promoted itself as collateralized properties with steep discounts.
It offered steep discounts, tens of thousands of livestreaming sessions, where key opinion leaders appearing in widely circulated short videos turn into perhaps the most persuasive salespeople.
Gas generation in Guangdong climbed 38 percent to meet an overall growth in power demand and counter a steep drop in hydropower supply from neighboring provinces.
For Gao, an acute myocardial infarction patient in Kunming, Southwest China's Yunnan province, the steep cut in the price of a coronary stent from over 7,400 yuan ($1,144) to 590 yuan came as a real blessing.
With the advent of drones, he can finally bid farewell to the days of trekking up and down the steep slopes in the mountainous area.
"We have seen a steep rise in orders from far-flung rural areas, mainly due to housing renovation and industrial development driven by the country's poverty alleviation efforts," said Yan Huaiguo, chairman of Shandong Lipai Machinery Group Co Ltd. Over recent years, China has blazed ahead with projects to boost the livelihood of its people, including building roads from village to village and revamping pit latrines, fuelling prodigious growth in the market for mini excavators, according to Yan.
Derived from China's bustling digital media landscape, livestreaming has moved quickly from the periphery to the mainstream, with businesses engaging with customers in smartphone-based broadcast shows in which they market products and often offer steep discounts.
The country's railway network handled a total of 818 million passenger trips in the first half of the year, which saw a steep drop of 53.9 percent compared with the same period last year, the company said, adding passenger volume began to pick up in March.
But to entice a critical mass of customers, brands typically must offer steep discounts and pay top-tier influencers exorbitant endorsement fees.
Unlike most of his peers in the catering and travel industries who have incurred steep losses, Qian's business has been in the black during the first quarter and he remains confident on the prospects for the full year.
That marked the second consecutive month of manufacturing activity expansion in China, after February's PMI revealed a steep contraction due to the novel coronavirus pneumonia pandemic.
Despite improvement last month, the profit decline in Q1 remained relatively steep due to factors including mounting stockpile, falling factory-gate prices, rising costs as well as market demand, which has yet to fully recover from COVID-19 impact, said Zhang.
Peng Huagang, an official with the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, said earlier this week that the plunging oil prices have partly led to steep profit declines in the domestic oil industry in the first quarter.
Amid the steep global price cuts, state-owned oil companies have to slash costs to keep afloat.
"I bought Xiaomi smart lamps," Tamas Sos, a 40-year-old entrepreneur told Xinhua, noting that the lights are extremely helpful as his pregnant wife has to get up at night in a house with narrow corridors and steep stairs.
China's soybean supply and prices have remained generally stable this year despite a steep decline in imports from the United States, Tang Ke, head of market and economic information at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said on Thursday.
Spending over 20,000 yuan ($2,911) to send a 10-year-old child to a 10-day summer camp may appear a steep price for most Chinese parents.
Almonds are one of the state's top three valued commodities and leading agriculture export, but its exports to China have continued to drop as a result of the US move to slap steep tariffs on Chinese products.
"In comparison with light railway trains, low noise, strong power passing steep slopes and fast bending functions are the unique advantages of the maglev traffic system, they can tackle the environmental impact caused by elevated wheel rail traffic in cities, and cut costs for construction and life cycle maintenance," said Zhuang Shangbiao, a researcher at the Beijing-based China Railway Society.
Wang also revealed that there is a rising number of households that have seen a steep increase in their spending on pet boarding services, driven by families finding ever more ways to make their pets' life fancier.
Meanwhile, as pets are more commonly seen as furry family members, the amount of money pet owners spend on them, or the cost of keeping a pet, is also seeing a steep increase.
Worldwide PC shipments stood at 259.4 million units in 2018, down 1.3 percent from 2017, marking the seventh straight year of decline, but a less steep drop compared with the past three years.
Unlike traditional single-level operations, Odfjell's gravity flow winery sits on a steep incline, allowing the wine to flow naturally from one stage of production to the next.
"Critics have long warned that a lack of affordable EVs would eventually stall the steep sales growth boosted by early adopters and corporate fleets.
In addition to vehicle manufacturing, the park serves as an off-road experience center, featuring various steep slopes, along with more than 20 challenging off-road tests like sandy paths, rock formations, and water crossings.
The car's powerful engine provides ample torque, allowing it to effortlessly tackle steep inclines and rough terrain, while the responsive handling and adaptive suspension ensure a smooth and comfortable ride.
"But chip shortages will not disappear in the short term, and we will probably see steep falls in November and December as sales in these two months last year were pretty high.
So we will see year-on-year falls in the following months, although the fall won't be as steep as in June," he said.
The namesake Volkswagen brand and Skoda saw a steep sales fall, while Audi and Porsche deliveries hit a new high in 2020.
From July 2019, China's new energy vehicle sales retreated over 12 consecutive months after a steep cut in government subsidies.
From July 2019, China's new energy vehicle sales retreated for 12 consecutive months after a steep cut in government subsidies.
Major Chinese automaker SAIC Motor reported a sales recovery in April after steep sales declines in the first quarter of 2020 amid the COVID-19 epidemic.
Chen Shihua, an assistant to the CAAM's secretary-general, said the steep slump was partially because of the fact that some major carmakers made intentional cuts in wholesale to help reduce inventory at their dealers.
He indicated that GM will not see a fall as steep as last year and it stands a chance of positive growth in 2019.
Trump also invoked the national security justification to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, angering key allies.
"While these steep import tariffs are part of the upper-end luxury market (and in some respects add to the prestige factor for luxury cars), for lower-luxury vehicles than the Model 3 a 50 percent premium would be significant," he said.
Carder acknowledged that some of the on-road tests were more demanding than US laboratory procedures such as a test route on a steep ascending road.
With the United States auto industry barreling toward its first annual decline since 2009, automakers are having to pick their poison: Slash revenue-generating production or close deals at steep discounts.
The chip industry's reactions show that the US government's restrictions on sales to China are, in fact, weighing down on not just Chinese companies but the global semiconductor industry, which is already suffering from a steep drop in demand for personal computers and smartphone components, said Bai Ming, deputy director of international market research at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.
The comments came after global PC shipments experienced the sharpest decline in nine years during the second quarter, which reduced the sector's demand for chips, according to market research company Gartner Inc. Mikako Kitagawa, research director at Gartner, said the first-quarter decline has accelerated in the second quarter, driven by factors including inflationary pressure on spending and a steep downturn in demand for Chromebooks.
Merchants embrace Cloud QuickPass, give Nov 11 carnival added tech touchThe Nov 11 shopping gala features steep discounts and alluring promotions.
However, they said companies may still face considerable challenges as steep prices and high production costs could affect business.
Key industrial sectors such as steel, chemical engineering, automobile and petroleum processing reported steep profit declines, down by 37.6 percent, 25.6 percent, 15.9 percent and 42.5 percent from a year earlier, respectively.
Against such a backdrop, the world's three major central banks — the Fed, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England — have unleashed an extremely steep series of interest rate hikes and balance sheet drawdowns since March 2022 to manage inflation, which unfortunately has not yielded the desired results so far.
Wang Youxin, senior analyst from Bank of China, said inflation is expected to contract in the US in the fourth quarter and any fresh interest rate hikes by the Fed would be moderate, not steep.
One latest example is the promotion of digital renminbi at the ongoing China International Consumer Products Expo in Haikou, capital city of Hainan province, where banks encourage the adoption of the new function through various incentives like steep discounts on certain merchandise.
"The steep ascent in yields is prompting investors to cast serious doubt over their exposure to equities, especially for tech stocks," said Han Tan, an analyst at FXTM, a global forex trading platform, after seeing big US stock declines with a peak of the Wall Street's fear gauge, the VIX index.
One result of the deleveraging campaign has been the control achieved in the off-balance sheet activities of commercial banks, with shadow banking seeing a steep decline from the peak of about 100.4 trillion yuan to 84.8 trillion yuan by the end of 2019.