Children and the old people are
vulnerable groups of the society.
孩子们和老年人是社会中的弱势群体。
The tropical plants are
vulnerable to the changing enviroment.
热带植物容易受到环境变化的影响。
They check the system carefully to find the
vulnerable spot.
他们认真的检查系统找寻薄弱环节。
Children are particularly
vulnerable to the effects of poverty.
儿童特别容易受到贫困的影响。
The elderly can be
vulnerable to scams and financial exploitation.
老年人可能易受欺诈和财务剥削。
After the storm, the damaged houses were left exposed and
vulnerable.
飓风过后，受损的房屋变得暴露且易受攻击。
She felt
vulnerable after her divorce, but with time, she regained her strength.
她离婚后感到脆弱，但随着时间的推移，她重拾了力量。
The ecosystem is highly
vulnerable to pollution and climate change.
生态系统对污染和气候变化极为敏感。
Immigrants often find themselves in a
vulnerable position due to their legal status.
移民往往因为他们的法律地位而处于弱势地位。
The company's security system has several vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit.
公司的安全系统有几个漏洞，黑客可以利用。
People with mental health issues can sometimes feel
vulnerable and isolated.
心理健康问题的人有时会感到脆弱和孤立。
The country's economy is
vulnerable to fluctuations in global oil prices.
该国的经济易受全球油价波动的影响。
The new startup is
vulnerable to competition from established companies.
这家新创公司容易受到老牌企业的竞争威胁。
We look forward to partnering with UNHCR and playing a part in realizing sustainable development through enabling quality education and equal opportunities for vulnerable children and youth.
我们期待着与难民署合作，通过为弱势儿童和青年提供优质教育和平等机会，在实现可持续发展方面发挥作用。
The foundation has also initiated other projects to help vulnerable groups get through difficulties caused by natural disasters.
该基金会还启动了其他项目，帮助弱势群体度过自然灾害造成的困难。
"China serves as the second-largest market for L'Oreal Group and our data has shown that its consumers are more vulnerable to hair damage due to natural reasons.
“中国是欧莱雅集团的第二大市场，我们的数据显示，其消费者更容易因自然原因受到头发损伤。
On April 21, the first batch of aid packages, totaling 82.25 metric tons, were delivered to nearly 5,000 families, mostly cancer patients, patients with mental issues and other vulnerable groups living in Fengxian, Chongming, Songjiang and Jinshan districts.
4月21日，首批援助物资共计82.25公吨，送达了居住在奉贤、崇明、松江和金山区的近5000个家庭，其中大部分是癌症患者、精神疾病患者和其他弱势群体。
To help young people stay in school during the COVID-19 pandemic, PG Foundation, a charitable arm of PG industries－a Chinese invested company－has stepped up efforts to provide assistance in support of vulnerable children in disadvantaged communities.
为了在新冠肺炎大流行期间帮助年轻人留在学校，PG基金会，一家中资公司PG工业的慈善机构，加大了援助力度，支持弱势社区的弱势儿童。
The rules are designed to address a largely held view that internet giants should be better regulated, given that they possess a huge amount of personal information that could be not only misused for monetary and other kinds of gains but may become vulnerable to leaks, experts said.
专家表示，这些规则旨在解决一种普遍存在的观点，即互联网巨头应该得到更好的监管，因为他们拥有大量的个人信息，这些信息不仅可能被滥用用于金钱和其他形式的收益，而且可能容易被泄露。
Today this expression is employed by the site's 267.2 million monthly active users to describe a number of strong feelings, such as something leaving them emotionally vulnerable, deeply touched by a story, or helpless under immense stress.
如今，该网站2.672亿月活跃用户使用这种表达方式来描述一些强烈的感受，比如让他们情绪脆弱、被故事深深打动或在巨大压力下无助的事情。
Alibaba's investment will go toward supporting technological innovation, economic development and high-quality employment, as well as assisting vulnerable groups and setting up a 20 billion yuan common prosperity development fund.
阿里巴巴的这笔投入将主要用在支持科技创新、经济发展、高质量就业和扶持弱势群体上，并且会设立一个200亿人民币的共同富裕发展基金。
Alibaba's investment will go toward supporting technological innovation, economic development and high-quality employment, as well as caring after vulnerable groups and setting up a 20-billion-yuan common prosperity development fund.
阿里巴巴的这笔投入将主要用在扶持创新，助力经济、创造就业、关爱民生等几个方面，同时成立一个200亿规模的共同富裕发展基金。
In addition to having supply chains that are reliable and less vulnerable to disruptions, China has the advantages of economies of scale, consumption potential, and competitive labor costs.
除了拥有可靠且较少受到干扰的供应链外，中国还具备规模经济、消费潜力和竞争优势的劳动力成本等优势。
Healthcare and biomedicine, financial technology, digital technology and smart hardware are the four industries that have highest scores for overall innovation capabilities and they are relatively less vulnerable to risks created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the report added.
The supplies will first be distributed to countries throughout Africa which are particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"SMEs are a major force in the Chinese economy for employment, tax revenue and exports, but they are relatively more susceptible to challenges caused by the epidemic, due to their vulnerable resource accessibility and operational flexibility," said Zhou Mi, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.
The board went on to say that the oversight it provides is "arguably the toughest and most rigorous in the world" and that the report does not therefore "suggest that the UK networks are more vulnerable than last year".
Guo said the report shows that Huawei's presence in the UK is subject to the toughest and most rigorous regulation in the world, and the report did not suggest that the UK networks are more vulnerable than they were last year.
"For example, all products with significant steel and aluminum content are vulnerable.
China has about 19,000 courier companies, most of which are vulnerable small businesses in a fragmented market.
However, the outlook could be vulnerable to the significant challenges of a lingering property downturn and lagging demand, they warned, underscoring the pressing need for and the rising possibility of more easing in macroxadeconomic policies.
Agricultural products seem vulnerable.
Risks to the outlook include persistently elevated interest rates in the United States and other advanced economies, which could contribute to financial instability in vulnerable economies in the region, especially those with high debt.
Organized with the support of the US Department of State and the APEC Secretariat, the multistakeholder forum has an agenda that aims to highlight community-level interventions that take into account the needs of vulnerable communities during the global shift toward net-zero economies.
Rebecca Sta Maria, executive director of the APEC Secretariat, said, "Having dialogues like this provides a platform for stakeholders to discuss inclusion, specifically for the underrepresented groups or groups made vulnerable by the energy crisis and technological and climate change readiness.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there are vulnerable communities around the world that are overburdened, do not have enough resources and are hurt first and worst.
"Fighting against climate change requires a strong commitment to addressing the inequities that have caused vulnerable communities to be hurt first and worst by its impacts," he said.
IMF official highlights nation's driving force, contribution amid headwindsChina is projected to contribute more than 30 percent to global economic growth in 2023, highlighting the anchoring role of the world's second-largest economy in a more vulnerable world with rising financial risks, leading experts said at a forum over the weekend.
Although import competition may inevitably lead to negative impacts on specific regions and demographics, potentially reducing the welfare of these vulnerable groups, the view that free trade is more beneficial than detrimental to the US is universally acknowledged in academia.
China is projected to contribute more than 30 percent of global economic growth in 2023, highlighting the anchoring role of the world's second-largest economy in a more vulnerable world, leading experts said at a forum on Saturday.
For the world, decoupling and fragmenting industrial and supply chains instigated by the US does not enhance the resilience of global industrial and supply chains, but makes them more vulnerable and even fragmented," it said.
We have also enhanced efforts in eldercare, and services for vulnerable groups … So far, all these efforts have delivered good results," said Xu Bin, a deputy-level cadre at the political and legal affairs commission of Linyi.
Each year, about half of Honduras' export revenue comes from the US, making foreign trade vulnerable to US economic fluctuations and policy adjustments.
"Bangladeshi Ambassador to China Jashim Uddin said his country is one of the most vulnerable to climate change as the rising sea levels would lead to less land area for the densely populated coastal nation.
He emphasized the importance of working with developing countries, particularly the most vulnerable states, in order to enable their participation in addressing climate change.
The countries in the region are already vulnerable to heightened tensions between China and the US, given their strong trade links with the two economies and their extensive integration in global value chains.
With increasingly restrictive global credit conditions, one out of every four EMDEs has lost access to international bond markets, and growth projections for these economies for 2023 are less than half of those made a year ago, making them highly vulnerable to additional shocks.
China is vulnerable to climate change, said Zheng Guoguang, secretary-general of the National Disaster Reduction Commission.
Advisable specific measures include short-term labor tax relief — such as temporary cuts in wage earners' social protection contributions — or well-targeted direct transfers to vulnerable households, he said.
Given that some private SMEs are more vulnerable to fluctuations in supply and industrial chains, the ministry is also strengthening its push to include key SMEs on a list to help them restart operations as soon as possible.
Such market players are more active and flexible, and are key to the employment and confidence of consumers, but they are also more vulnerable under the impact of COVID-19.
"The current high inflation, low growth, high debt and high fragmentation environment reduces incentives for the investments needed to get back to growth and raise living standards for the world's most vulnerable," WEF Managing Director Saadia Zahidi said in the statement.
"But in reality, they tend to become vulnerable to external pressures.
The country has established a price subsidy mechanism to offer financial aid to vulnerable communities in case of price hikes.
To spur domestic demand, Guo Shuqing, Party secretary of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said that China's financial policy will focus on improving the income level of vulnerable groups while stepping up support for private enterprises.
He called for deepening North-South cooperation, South-South cooperation and third-party cooperation to ensure vulnerable and marginalized sections among youth can share an equal development opportunity, so that no country and no young people are left behind.
At the same time, fiscal support to vulnerable households and strengthening social safety nets would promote consumption, which in turn can reignite growth.
At the same time, fiscal support to vulnerable households and strengthening social safety nets would promote consumption to reignite growth.
"Compared with previous support policies, the new regulation emphasizes that the authorities concerned should not discriminate against self-employed businesses when putting forward policies, as such businesses, which are usually small in scale and have a limited voice, are vulnerable to discrimination from all aspects in their business activities," Wei said.
On the other hand, money and credit are more aggregate policies, while fiscal policy has stronger structural functions, such as being able to more effectively help vulnerable groups, and people and industries that have been greatly affected by COVID-19.
The priority in fiscal policy is protecting vulnerable groups through targeted near-term support to alleviate the burden of the cost-of-living crisis felt across the globe.
"For example, a fiscal policy that shifts its composition toward vulnerable households would support private consumption and lift growth in China and elsewhere.
To fight global hyperinflation, the IMF report suggested monetary tightening, which is critical to stem inflation, and fiscal protection of vulnerable groups.
In addition to employment, the ministry has also made more efforts since 2012 to improve the State-level social security network to cover more people, especially those who are vulnerable, such as migrant workers, or flexibly employed.
Local governments responded rapidly by working out region-specific moves, ranging from granting consumer vouchers to easing restrictions on real estate buying and subsidizing vulnerable businesses, to reduce COVID-induced impacts on the economy to a minimum.
"Given that SMEs are more vulnerable to fluctuations in supply and industrial chains, the MIIT is also encouraging digital service providers to reduce SME cloud platform costs, so that they can better leverage digital technologies to boost efficiency amid difficulties," she added.
"Given that SMEs are more vulnerable to fluctuations in supply and industrial chains, MIIT is also strengthening its push to include key SMEs in a list to help them restart operations as soon as possible," she said.
Addressing a plenary at the WEF, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the Russia-Ukraine conflict has triggered an unprecedented global food crisis with dramatic consequences for the most vulnerable countries, individuals and families.
Sanchez said that food insecurity was a catalyst for social instability and often armed conflicts, adding that effort is needed to restore food production and trade systems, and achieve food security for the most vulnerable.
As SMEs are more vulnerable to fluctuations in supply and industry chains, the MIIT is also strengthening its push to include key SMEs on a "white list" to help them resume operations as soon as possible.
"Yet they also tend to be vulnerable to risk.
During economic downturns, vulnerable families are the first to suffer.
It was decided at a meeting of the central bank on Friday to step up support for agricultural production and the supply of key energies while putting in place policies supportive of smaller businesses and vulnerable groups hit by COVID-19.
Such support can focus on providing direct transfers to vulnerable households.
In the short term, he said that fiscal policy should generally aim to protect the vulnerable from rising food and fuel prices, but consolidation is essential in the context of a credible medium-term framework, while beyond this, structural reforms are important to support long-term growth.
"So government should currently navigate a fine balance between ensuring access to food and energy for vulnerable households on the one hand, and normalizing policy support, promoting green transformation and energy security on the other hand," Srinivasan said.
Sheng said many of the businesses in the two villages-in-city are restaurants, secondhand home appliance shops, and convenience stores which are small in size and vulnerable to disruptions.
The rising economic headwinds have necessitated more support for suffering market players, especially the more vulnerable small and medium-sized enterprises, experts said.
"Policymakers should pay attention to vulnerable groups and enhance support for key industries and small and micro businesses to stabilize market expectations," Wang said.
Li said such sectors as catering, accommodation, retail, tourism and passenger transport provide a large number of job opportunities but are highly vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19.
Sima Hong, a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, also said in a proposal that China should further improve business environment to unleash more vitality of enterprises, especially micro and small-sized ones, which are more vulnerable to economic downtrends and other negative factors like sporadic COVID-19 cases.
Noting that businesses in general and the private sector, in particular, were affected by the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic last year, Yang said substantial support shall be provided to the country's smaller business communities as they become relatively more vulnerable when faced with risk.
They stand in vulnerable situations in terms of securing financing and coping with shocks brought about by rising commodity costs.
"But they tend to become vulnerable while facing external pressures like soaring raw material costs.
The social safety net has to be strengthened further to help workers and vulnerable groups affected by industrial restructuring or the impact of higher energy prices," he said.
"Further action, including net present value reductions in the debt burden of the most vulnerable countries is needed.
When it comes to achieving benefits for all, China has at various international meetings urged countries to employ such means as debt suspension and development aid to help developing countries, particularly vulnerable ones facing exceptional difficulties.
According to Raiser, for the poorest and most vulnerable countries "concessional funding will continue to be key".
Financial support for agriculture and smaller businesses, which are vulnerable sectors amid the COVID-19 pandemic, still needs to be further strengthened, said Wen, who added that the central bank is expected to increase relending to smaller businesses by about 300 billion yuan in the fourth quarter of this year.
Policymakers in China are considering major tax and fee cuts in 2022 as a proactive fiscal easing measure to spur the economy and support vulnerable firms, tax authorities and experts said on Thursday.
More supportive policies are also expected to be offered to smaller companies and producers that are vulnerable to both higher prices and production costs.
This year's results made it clear that the most globally connected cities were also the most vulnerable to COVID impacts, said Wang Yu, the global partner of Kearney Strategy Consultants.
OPay, a Chinese-backed Nigerian fintech startup, is expanding rapidly and bringing accessible banking services to more vulnerable people during the pandemic.
They are the most vulnerable groups amid the COVID-19 impact.
Monetary policy analysts said on Thursday they expect the People's Bank of China, the central bank, to increase policy supports to stabilize the economy, with emphasis on increasing credit supply to smaller businesses and vulnerable sectors through more monetary tools.
The central bank will maintain proper growth of credit supply to support high-quality economic development and aid the recovery of small and medium-sized companies, as well as those in vulnerable sectors, to ensure economic growth is within a reasonable range, the statement said.
Going forward, Li, the Tsinghua researcher, suggests regular financial support should be given to these vulnerable smaller companies.
In particular, he suggests more training and consultation on financial knowledge, particularly on futures trading, should be properly provided to these firms to help them cushion the price fluctuations, as most smaller companies tend to lack such knowledge, leaving them more vulnerable to prices changes.
Particularly cheerful are smaller, micro-sized businesses who were once the most vulnerable group during the outbreak, but have robustly recovered this year.
The State Council, China's Cabinet, announced in March 2020 a raft of policies supporting employment, particularly for vulnerable sectors, including more value-added tax relief, providing low-cost lending to smaller businesses, and lowering or waiving employers' contributions to old-age pensions, unemployment and workplace safety insurance schemes, exemptions for utility bills and rents and wage subsidies to help businesses keep payrolls stable.
Shi Yinghua, director of the Research Center for Macroeconomics, which is part of the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, said that smaller businesses tend to become vulnerable while facing external pressures like the current surge in commodity prices, thereby more targeted efforts are needed to relieve the challenge in the coming months.
中国财政科学研究院宏观经济研究中心主任石英华表示，面对当前大宗商品价格上涨等外部压力时，中小型企业往往会变得较为脆弱，因此在未来几个月内需要采取更具针对性的措施来缓解这一挑战。
"In the medium term, China needs to continue to work on the rebalancing effort in their policies around social security reforms and more progressive taxation, which will support the more vulnerable income groups and will also promote more consumption because these are groups that tend to spend more out of what they earned," she said.
Noting that an SDR allocation in 2009 had contributed significantly to recovery from the global financial crisis, Georgieva believed that the new SDR allocation will help every IMF member country, particularly vulnerable countries, strengthen their response to the COVID-19 crisis.
"We will maintain active engagement with our membership in the months ahead to identify viable options for voluntary channeling of SDRs from wealthier members to support our poorer and more vulnerable countries to help their pandemic recovery and achieve resilient and sustainable growth, which will also help boost global economic recovery," she said.
The IMF chief urged G20 policymakers to step up international cooperation to end the pandemic, step up efforts to secure recovery, and step up support for vulnerable economies.
Enterprises to benefit from reduction in fees of payment services, official saysChina has stepped up policy support to spur economic growth and help vulnerable smaller and private businesses, as policymakers consider channeling more funds into the market by cutting the reserve requirement ratio for financial institutions.
The government's fiscal policy orientation this year is relatively loose, which provides room for coping with any fresh outbreaks and supporting vulnerable industries.
While addressing the International Finance Forum 2021 Spring Meetings on Saturday, he said that as low-income, developing countries tended to be much more vulnerable amid the COVID-19 pandemic, development banks and other development partners need to work faster to help their governments build up strength in their healthcare systems.
He urged as low-income, developing countries tend to be much more vulnerable in face of the pandemic shock, development banks and other development partners need to work faster to help governments of low income countries to build up strength in healthcare systems.
"Financial safety nets at various levels can provide more financial support options for Asian countries, especially those vulnerable to the impact of the pandemic, to maintain their macroeconomic stability.
With the risks of a prolonged pandemic and insufficient fiscal space to stimulate demand, the world's most vulnerable countries are facing the prospect of a lost decade.
However, "we must not take the recovery for granted," as there is a dangerous divergence in economic fortunes across and within countries, she said, adding that vulnerable households and viable firms will need continued support so long as the crisis persists.
But pressure still exists, especially in vulnerable emerging market, low-income and fragile states, economists said.