Yu Bin, an independent commentator on the internet industry, said the knowledge-sharing industry should be focused on high-quality content and vertical industry, exploring more forward-looking knowledge to attract users.

Against everyone's expectation, there came Pinduoduo, emerging with a completely different set of practices to engage with users," said Keso Hong, an independent internet commentator in China.

Zhang Shule, an independent commentator in the IT and game industry, said the advantages of traditional search engine websites do not exist due to the popularity of mobile terminal devices.

Zhang Shule, an industry commentator, told Changjiang Times that price raises will not bother users.

But Wu Xiaobo, a financial commentator, voiced concerns that Ma's exit might overshadow Alibaba's key strategic moves, as the company's vast e-commerce business is in the midst of consolidating a brick-and-mortar retail presence.

"Collaboration with top overseas clubs, especially in terms of developing young players, will help to promote China's soccer training as the country strives to become a big player in the sport," said Xie Liang, a veteran soccer commentator with Radio Guangdong.

Ant's idea of forging a virtual community also rides the next trend of attracting and retaining younger generation customers, who are used to dealing with financial matters online," said Ye Tan, a veteran financial commentator in China.

Dan Dicker, a longtime energy trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange, media commentator and founder of The Energy Word newsletter, said, "For those (oil-producing) players that are left, like OPEC and Russia, and the majors here in the United States, they've got no appetite to ramp up more because they lost money for six years.

Wang Jiangmin, a civil aviation commentator from China Southern Airlines, said: "The prices of airfreight transportation went up as a result of reduced number of flights due to the pandemic.

Although a long time in the making, the China-EU investment deal marks a constructive moment in troubled pandemic times, said Shada Islam, head of the New Horizons Project, a Brussels-based global strategy and advisory firm, and a long time commentator on EU and Asia affairs.

"Compared with traditional brick-and-mortar stores, these online platforms have gained an upper hand in obtaining massive user traffic and their requirements for commodities," said Zhang Shule, an independent commentator in the IT and video game industry.

Zhang Shule, an independent commentator on the IT and gaming industry, said the draft guidelines aim to establish further regulations for license approvals, specifying details such as the approval process, and this year's normalization of license approval ensures the stable development of the gaming industry.

Zhang Shule, an independent commentator on the IT and gaming industry, said the new rules, which set spending limits for online games, might affect the revenues of gaming companies that rely on selling virtual gaming tools.

Wang Chikun, an independent economist and finance commentator, said that with people's rising living standards, their consumption demand becomes stronger, more refined, more newfangled and more diversified.

Martin Wolf, the chief economic commentator at the Financial Times, pointed out CBAM may affect the competitiveness of products from different countries and warned it may trigger trade wars if countries get tougher on the issue.

Yu Bin, an independent commentator on the internet industry, said the knowledge-sharing sector should focus on high-quality content and verticals, and explore more forward-looking knowledge to attract more users.

Business and finance commentator Wu Xiaobo hosted a like-minded speech on Dec 30 in Xiamen, putting forward eight trends he deemed critical to navigate Chinese society in the coming year.

"Pan Helin, an economic commentator at the Zhongnan University of Economics and law, said "If the government will further support financing for the manufacturing industry, it should encourage banks to carry out divergent credit policies, increase medium- and long-term loans to enterprises, and it should continue to support equity financing for the industry, help qualified private companies expand their bond financing scale, fuel the development of a multi-level capital market and improve the external financing capability of manufacturing enterprises. "

Thus more women are financially capable of buying properties on their own, especially those living in first and second-tier cities," said Pan Helin, an economic commentator.

"Christian Wolmar, a leading railway commentator and author of more than a dozen transport books, added: "As Siemens and Alstom already dominate Europe's rail market, such a merger could provoke other smaller rail players to merge in order to compete, and that will significantly reduce choices in this market.

The market was not cold despite a relatively lower growth rate, said Xie Yifeng, a real estate columnist and commentator.

"Real estate columnist and commentator Xie Yifeng, explaining the logic behind Heze's decision, said: "There is a distinct conflict between supply and demand.

Liu Jianhong, a famous Chinese soccer commentator, posted a video clip on social platforms on Thursday featuring a digital version of him broadcasting soccer news.

Investors have confidence in the company, so it has attracted continuous investment to fund its capital-consuming electric car manufacturing and research and development, veteran commentator Zhong Shi told China Daily.

The market commentator calculated that Chinese companies, including Shouqi and Didi, currently share about 30 percent of the global market, mainly in the North American, East Asian and Southeast Asian markets, while Uber is losing ground.

Zhang Xuefeng, an independent commentator, said metaverse is decentralized and similar to a virtual world, which is composed of code.

Xiang Ligang, an independent tech commentator, said the UAE sees AI as "new oil" and aims to be a fast adopter of the emerging technology.

Change is coming, gradually or quickly," said Robert Armstrong, a US financial commentator at the Financial Times.

The author is a senior staff commentator at China Daily.

The author is a commentator with China Daily.

It's easy for an outside commentator to criticize policymakers who are trying to solve a severe crisis.

Pettis, 61, who is a frequent commentator on the Chinese economy, writing for publications such as the Financial Times, was speaking at his home near Houhai Lake in Beijing.

He wrote it with economics commentator Matthew C. Klein.

Overall, the RRR cut will effectively offset investors' anxiety during the holiday, such as slumps in Hong Kong shares and reduced market panic, said Huang Hanbin, a popular commentator on economics.

The move will benefit broader opening up in China's stock market, independent financial commentator Pi Haizhou said on his blog.

Carlos Martinez, a British commentator and co-editor of Friends of Socialist China, said it's "particularly striking how in tune the Chinese leadership is with the needs, aspirations and dreams of ordinary people".

Hannan Hussain, a foreign affairs commentator and a former assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, said that from the early phases of the pandemic to this month, China's data sharing with the international community has been instrumental to anti-pandemic transparency.

Jiang devoted considerable efforts to developing China's friendship, solidarity and unity with other socialist countries, said British author and political commentator Carlos Martinez.