However, China's coastal waters have dense waterways and busy shipping lines, which may damage submarine cables when ships anchor.

然而，中国沿海水域水道密集，航运线路繁忙，船只抛锚时可能会损坏海底电缆。

That has always been the anchor of our business philosophy — cost efficiency and customer experience," said Xu Ran, CEO of JD, in an earnings conference call with investors last week.

这一直是我们商业理念的支柱——成本效益和客户体验，”京东首席执行官徐然上周在与投资者的财报电话会议上表示。

Zhang Jun, director of the China Center for Economic Studies of Fudan University, said that SOEs serve as an important anchor of the country's stable economic growth, and they play a vital role in expanding effective investment.

复旦大学中国经济研究中心主任张军表示，国有企业是中国经济稳定增长的重要支柱，在扩大有效投资方面发挥着至关重要的作用。

The industry group called for efforts to optimize the business environment, further anchor public expectations and boost market vitality.

该行业组织呼吁努力优化营商环境，进一步锚定公众期望，增强市场活力。

With a total height exceeding 200 meters and a draft weight of 11,000 metric tons, CNOOC Guanlan is anchored in the deep ocean at a depth of 120 meters with the help of nine anchor chains.

中海油观澜总高度超过200米，吃水1.1万公吨，借助9条锚链锚定在120米深的深海中。

With a total height exceeding 200 meters and a draft weight of 11,000 metric tons, it is anchored in the deep ocean at a depth of 120 meters using nine anchor chains.

它的总高度超过200米，吃水重量为11000公吨，使用九条锚链锚定在120米深的深海中。

"There are two strategic growth markets that will anchor the growth of Merlin Entertainments over the next decade, and they are China and the United States," he said.

他说：“有两个战略增长市场将支撑梅林娱乐在未来十年的增长，它们是中国和美国。”。

The Anchor fresh milk featuring New Zealand grass-fed cows, along other new offerings, made its Asia debut during the ongoing fourth China International Import Expo.

在正在进行的第四届中国国际进口博览会上，以新西兰草饲奶牛为特色的Anchor鲜奶以及其他新产品首次在亚洲亮相。

"We have seen significant growth across the Anchor food professional product range in China.

"Hou Haifeng, chairman of the Anchor Center for Research and Development and Certification (Shanghai), said: "The partner agency of the innovation center. "

The company said its Anchor brand accounted for half of the mozzarella cheese used in pizzas in China, and it served half of the mainstream bakeries and tea houses.

com to market its retail dairy products under the Anchor brand.

Registered fans of Anchor's online store exceeded 1.25 million.

The CEO has shared stories about Anchor as a brand that's more than 100 years old and their high-standards and control on food quality and security, from farms to tables.

Chow also tried delicacies made from Anchor products with renowned food influencer Mini.

Anta Group, a leading Chinese sportswear company, joined hands with livestreaming celebrity Li Jiaqi and CCTV anchor Zhu Guangquan to promote its sneakers under the theme of "trendy Chinese brands".

The brewery is located in Pingdu in northern Qingdao, where it will anchor a smart industrial park.

Its Anchor UHT (ultra high temperature) milk, which has entered China for six years, ranked as No 1 among imported milk brands in terms of product sales volume last year.

Alibaba said "anchor sellers," such as US companies Office Depot and Robinson Fresh, the produce division of logistics company C. H. Robinson, launched stores on Alibaba.

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra introduced on Monday its fresh milk product to the Chinese market under its iconic Anchor brand, as it is seeks to grab a slice of the country's 200-billion-yuan ($29.81 billion) milk market.

"Anchor's fresh milk will debut in premium supermarkets such as City Super and mass market chains like RT-Mart in multiple cities across East China, where average dairy consumption is noticeably higher than the national average, according to Xu Desheng, research and development director at Fonterra China.

Anchor already sells 100 million liters equivalent of liquid milk products annually in China, including ambient yogurt, dairy foods and adult milk powder, Christina Zhu, president of Fonterra China, told China Daily in an earlier interview.

"It's great timing for Anchor, as more consumers believe fresh milk, which contains no preservatives, is healthier and richer in nutrients compared to long-life milk," said Zhao Hui, general manager of Kantar Worldpanel North Region.

Albeit being a relative latecomer, Zhao said Anchor's fresh milk stands to benefit from its perceived "premium" brand positioning as more customers choose imported food.

"With increasing air pollution in Asian countries in recent years, people look to ways to anchor themselves in nature to find balance in their everyday lives.

That same day, the National Enquirer touted it was publishing alleged intimate text messages between Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, a former television anchor whom he was said to be dating.

Sogou made its debut at the just-concluded Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, showcasing its AI technologies and products such as facial transfer technology, AI news anchor, smart translation devices.

"Sogou launched the world's first virtual anchor technology on the opening day of the internet conference, which began on Wednesday and ends on Friday.

The technology can create an AI avatar model the same with the real anchor through cutting-edge technologies, such as detecting key points on the face, extracting face features, face reconstruction, lip-reading recognition and emotion migration.

A piece of synthetically video news with the AI avatar can be created by the machine after training and calculating video and audio materials from the real anchor.

Anchor Food Professional, Fonterra's food service business, has signed a deal to provide goods worth 12 billion yuan to Xiamen C&D Corp, a large industrial and investment enterprise in Xiamen, Fujian province.

Fonterra's consumer brands, such as Anchor and Anlene, have also signed agreements to sell goods worth 50 million yuan to an alliance of retailers represented by Bailian Group, a State-owned retail conglomerate in Shanghai.

On April 25, the General Office of the State Council issued a guideline allowing internet companies to operate online hospitals, as long as they anchor their services to brick-and-mortar hospitals.

New Zealand's Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, is planning to triple its consumer brand Anchor's sales in China, including ultra-high temperature and pasteurized milk, to further consolidate its market position, a top company official said.

Fonterra's core consumer brand Anchor already sells 100 million liters equivalent of liquid milk products every year in China, including ambient yogurt, dairy foods and adult milk powder.

From its first UHT Anchor milk sold in Shanghai in 2013, Fonterra has expanded its product range to over 47 products across 13,000 stores nationwide.

Internet giant's quarterly profit dip a temporary blip on the radar, say analystsOnce dubbed the "anchor" of the benchmark Hang Seng Index, Tencent Holdings Ltd is showing signs of running out of steam as disappointing earnings and regulatory woes spook investors.

The Electronic World Trade Platform Ecosystem Fund was launched on Wednesday to help enterprises that promote innovation and quality consumption, with Alibaba Group and Ant Financial as its anchor investors.

The firm is seeking anchor investors for an asking price based on its $55 billion valuation.

"We are pleased to announce a second major IMAX commitment from Jinyi in just two years – a testament to their continued confidence in IMAX to anchor their newest flagship locations and offer a premium differentiated experience that drives incremental revenue," said IMAX's CEO Richard Gelfond.

Nevertheless, the Chinese group remains the single largest anchor investor in the bank, ahead of the Emirate of Qatar and the US investment entities Blackrock and Cerberus.

The Chinese contractors will also install five single point mooring systems, a catenary anchor leg mooring buoy weighing 240 tons and pipeline end manifold carrying a total weight of 220 tons for a shuttle tanker that imports crude for the refinery.

Dubbed the "anchor" of the benchmark Hang Seng Index, Tencent knocked Facebook off the pedestal to become the fifth-largest company worldwide in terms of market value on Nov 21.

In addition to helping or encouraging foreign trade firms to take part in overseas trade shows, tax breaks, export rebates, facilitation in Customs clearance and other preferential policies should be rolled out to help slash their costs and better anchor their expectations, Zhuang said.

Experts said China will likely strengthen fiscal expansion and take accommodative monetary steps to jointly address the challenge of sufficient demand this year, helping further anchor price levels nationwide.

They said that fiscal policies should amplify the positive effects of government investment on boosting market confidence and stimulating aggregate demand in a bid to anchor the momentum of economic recovery.

Lan Zongmin, a researcher at the Development Research Center of the State Council, said the Chinese economy is likely to see a more balanced recovery between supply and demand this year as policymakers attach more emphasis to bolstering demand, with the deepening of industrial upgrading to further anchor investment growth.

Following China's tone-setting Central Economic Work Conference earlier this month, multiple government authorities have convened meetings, making specific arrangements to anchor the growth momentum of the Chinese economy in 2024.

In November, the Ministry of Commerce launched a special review to identify and address regulations or measures that may discriminate against foreign-invested enterprises, in a bid to create a more equitable market environment for foreign businesses, anchor the long-term investment expectations of foreign investors in China and bolster their confidence.

Meanwhile, comprehensive measures will be implemented to anchor market expectations and prevent excessive fluctuations in the forex market.

In times of economic turbulence, it is vital to enhance macro policy communication and coordination between China and the US, so as to anchor market expectations, mitigate uncertainties and stabilize the global financial system, Xu said.

Zou Yunhan, a researcher at the State Information Center, said China is projected to contribute around 30 percent of global economic growth this year, highlighting its role as an anchor as the world's second-largest economy.

China should consider a proactive GDP growth target of above 5 percent in 2024 to bring economic growth back to its potential level, anchor market expectations and further stabilize the job market, leading experts said.

"Faster growth is needed to anchor the expectations of businesses and households," Li said, attributing their currently subdued sentiment to slower economic growth in recent years, which resulted in a tepid increase in corporate earnings and household incomes.

Proactive target expected to motivate sectors to unleash full potentialChina can consider a proactive GDP growth target of above 5 percent in 2024 to bring economic growth back to its potential level, anchor market expectations and fulfill longer-term development goals, leading experts said.

"Faster growth is needed to anchor the expectations of businesses and households," Li said, attributing the current subdued sentiment among them mainly to slower economic growth in recent years, which resulted in a tepid increase in corporate earnings and household income.

Second is to further unclog the money-supply mechanism and shape a "money-supply anchor".

Initially, China used land and exports as the anchor, but in the future, efforts should be made to reorientate the anchor based on intangible assets such as intellectual property rights and consumption.

Forum:Higher standard of opening-up emphasizedChina should scale up efforts to comprehensively deepen reform and opening-up as a crucial step to anchor market expectations, boost business confidence and unleash the country's economic growth potential, amid shifting international dynamics and increasing pressure on the domestic economy, observers said.

Reform remains the key to addressing development-related issues, and breakthroughs in deepening reform should be made to anchor development expectations, said Chi Fulin, president of the China Institute for Reform and Development.

Therefore, it may be worthwhile to think about creating a capital market stabilization fund, which can act as a market anchor during periods of extreme panic or irrational market collapses, and would be also helpful in directing the market toward value investments.

Greater government support should be channeled toward the many private firms, which serve as an important anchor of China's foreign trade, said Xu Yingming, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.

The role of bilateral economic and trade ties as the cornerstone of China-US relations should be fully harnessed to anchor business expectations and boost their confidence in trade and investment cooperation, Shu added.

It will lay a solid foundation to create a world-class and market-oriented business environment governed by a sound legal framework, anchor expectations of foreign businesses, and shore up their confidence to double down on investment and sustain long-term development in China, he said.

China has served as an important anchor and source of impetus for free trade and stable growth in the world.

Greater efforts will be made to create a level playing field for all kinds of market entities, strengthen legal underpinnings and steadily expand institutional opening-up in a bid to anchor social expectations, stimulate market vitality and sustain economic recovery and growth, they added.

Currently, considering the pressure on the employment front and on deflation, further policy should be prioritized to stabilize employment, increase incomes and anchor market expectations," Wang said.

The two sides should manage their differences and reach a consensus on gradually phasing out restrictive measures, as a stable and sound China-US relationship is in the common interest of the two peoples and the anchor of world economic growth, he said.

The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said in its first-quarter monetary policy report on Monday that it will keep abreast of any marginal changes in price levels and anchor social expectations, while ensuring prudent monetary policy to provide an appropriate amount of steady support.

At the age of 47, she has seldom left the seashore, where she grew up watching her parents anchor or sail, except when hauling buckets of bream and croakers to fish markets or a few necessary trips away from home.

"With business getting so good, there is every reason to go on," she said, calling herself an "anchor", a local nickname for fish dealers.

China on Friday called trade cooperation the "anchor" of its ties with Germany, saying that the two countries are partners rather than rivals.

Pragmatic and effective policy measures will be introduced whenever and wherever needed to further anchor market expectations, shore up confidence for future development, consolidate and expand growth momentum and promote overall improvement in economic performance on an ongoing basis.

The premier urged building an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future to make the region an anchor for global peace and stability, a source for world economic growth and a hub for international cooperation.

China will also give priority to expanding domestic demand, in order to anchor its growth on firmer home ground, against the backdrop of complicated international situations, NBS spokesperson Fu Linghui told a press conference Wednesday.

Su, from CAFS, said that to facilitate the growth of smaller businesses and anchor market expectations, the scale of tax and fee cuts this year will likely be held steady compared with last year, with a focus on securing the operation of market players.

Nevertheless, experts noted that China's consumption recovery is still incipient with big-ticket spending lagging, and concerted policy steps are needed to anchor household income expectations and boost their willingness to spend.

At the same time, macroeconomic policies should be put into high gear to support growth and anchor market expectations.

The province accounted for about 10.2 percent of China's overall economy and has been an anchor of national growth.

As the world's second-largest economy with strong consumption capacity and powerful production and innovation potential, China will provide an anchor mechanism for the RCEP, said Loh.

During a livestreaming session, the anchor of a textile company introduced printed knitwear featuring Southeast Asian styles in front of a smartphone screen, while numerous online viewers from countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) watched closely.

During a livestreaming session, the anchor of a textile company was introducing printed knitwear featuring Southeast Asian styles in front of a smartphone screen, while numerous online viewers from countries of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) were watching closely.

H2 can sustain economic recovery and anchor market expectationsChina should take more measures to unleash the growth potential of digital transformation and technological innovation in the second half of the year to promote a sustained economic recovery, policy advisers said on Monday.

"More forceful and effective measures should be adopted to strengthen confidence and anchor expectations.

Zhang Lianqi, vice-president of the China Taxation Society, said that the robust and accelerated efforts in tax refunds are to effectively sustain market players, and that "to sustain market players is to anchor market expectations and protect the resilience of the Chinese economy.

Financial cooperation among members a 'critical anchor' for global growthIn the face of a sluggish global recovery from the COVID-19 hit, BRICS countries－Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa－should enhance cooperation and better safeguard people's lives to underpin a stable world economic recovery, China's Finance Minister Liu Kun said on Monday.

Zhou Mi, a senior researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said that macro policy communication and coordination are of critical importance for the forthcoming global economic recovery because BRICS per se is one of the largest economies, and their steady recovery will be a critical anchor for global growth.

"Intensified fiscal spending will effectively anchor market expectations, ensure the normal functioning of primary-level governments and better protect market players," he urged, adding that fiscal funding is usually a more direct way to boost the economy.

The Chinese economy has sustained its recovering momentum as supply and industrial chains have been gradually unsnarled, Wang said, noting that pro-growth policy mixes have also sent positive signals to several primary sectors and helped anchor market expectations.

"He called for more efforts to anchor market expectations, boost market confidence and create a market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment.

The trade dependence among Asian economies remained high, the report said, noting that the trade in goods with China by most Asian countries increased, helping anchor regional trade stability against the shocks.

We must explore every possible means to anchor expectations and boost consumption and investment.

The meeting also decided to adopt holistic approaches to anchor market expectations and maintain steady and healthy development of the capital market.

Targeted measures will be taken to anchor market expectations and boost market confidence.

Shi noted that going forward, such moves will remain crucial, as continued efforts in bringing down tax payments of smaller businesses will greatly help anchor market expectations.

"It will be critically important to anchor their expectations," he said.

Setting the GDP growth target at around 5.5 percent this year is crucial for China's policymakers to better anchor market expectations as the Chinese economy faces downward pressure, said Xu Gao, chief economist at Bank of China International.

Last week, the executive meeting of the State Council, China's Cabinet, just confirmed greater policy support for imports and exports to help business secure orders and anchor market expectations.

"We expect a proper mix of fiscal and monetary policies next year to anchor business expectations and keep employment stable next year. "

China will continue to expand opening-up, roll out measures to respond to difficulties and challenges, ensure cross-cyclical adjustments and help ease problems facing enterprises with a special focus on supporting smaller ones, as part of effort to secure business orders, anchor market expectations and underpin steady growth of foreign trade, the State Council's Executive Meeting chaired by Premier Li Keqiang decided earlier this week.