At the event, Lilly China announced its intention to reach new strategic cooperation with five local innovative biotechnology companies, which Basil describes as having mutual goals with the company and overlapping between their core competency, therapeutic focus and ability to bear even better fruits to support the blueprint around Healthy China 2030, a national guideline aimed at promoting overall health.

在活动中，礼来中国宣布有意与五家当地创新生物技术公司达成新的战略合作，巴兹尔称这五家公司与该公司有着共同的目标，它们的核心能力、治疗重点和结出更好果实的能力相互重叠，以支持围绕健康中国2030的蓝图，旨在促进整体健康的国家指导方针。

Apart from expanding manufacturing capacities and offices, Zeiss is contemplating strategic supply chain acquisitions to increase competency, specifically for the China market.

除了扩大制造能力和办公室外，蔡司还考虑战略性供应链收购，以提高竞争力，特别是针对中国市场。

"To serve the world's patients, we need to depend on our innovation competency as well as development and market promotion abiding by international standards.

He deemed digitalized chains and heavy storage supply chains as the base of core competency of Miss Fresh, deeming them both the fundamental driving force for the company and the core competitive barriers.

It is expected to help standardize local home-sharing business, upgrade relevant services and build up trade competency.

"The brand is the comprehensive demonstration of the competency of a country, a region and even a company," he said.

Haier's interconnected factory focuses on developing a flexible mass customization process by using intelligent technologies, "with core competency of user-orientation and fulfillment of user lifetime value", said Chen Lucheng, vice-president of Haier.

"The industrial upgrades in China have been picking up momentum under such a context, adding competency to China in a number of fields including new energy-related industrial chains," Wen said.

This is the core competency that enables sustainable and stable economic growth, he said.

Denis Depoux, global managing director of consultancy Roland Berger, told China Daily on the sidelines of the CDF, "China remains a significant market for most foreign companies, and has gradually become an important source of innovation to strengthen the global competency of some foreign companies.

With improving innovation competency, China has caught up with or even overtaken other regions in some cutting-edge fields, therefore becoming a technological powerhouse.

It is not only a company's social responsibility but also can become its core competency and help improve efficiency.

"We are leveraging the automotive competency of China, for example, in digital and in electromobility.

We at BMW will actively leverage our comprehensive research and development competency to support smart mobility and smart city development in China," said Jochen Goller, president and CEO of BMW Group Region China.

"Huawei said it will also comprehensively upgrade the partner system to ensure shared success and its continued operation as a sound foundation for the development of competency partners.

But thanks to China's increasing competency in general trade and precise policy adjustments regarding commodity prices and energy issues, the negative impact of the global supply chain disruptions on the economy has been mitigated to some extent.

These efforts are a bid to forge fintech into a core competency of the bank, he said.

The Hainan Maritime Safety Administration issued China's first foreign ship captain certificate recognition visa to a Chinese crew member holding a ship captain competency certificate.

Singapore and China have signed a reciprocity agreement recognizing each other's competency certifications.

Under international conventions and China's laws and regulations, seafarers holding certificates of competency at the management level for crew members issued by other countries that have reciprocity with China, including captains, chief mates, chief engineers and second engineers working on a Chinese ship, may obtain a foreign seafarer's certificate of competency document from maritime administrative agencies.

Before applying for the document, crew members holding certificates of competency at the management level are required to attend a short training and pass an assessment.

For seafarers holding Singaporean certificates of competency for operations, such as sailors and mechanics on duty, their foreign certificate recognition visa will be issued directly, according to the administration.

Lu Guangwei, director of the crew management department of the administration, said this issuance will further ease the restrictions on the employment of seafarer holding certificates from countries that have signed a reciprocity agreement recognizing each other's competency certifications with China, and promote the formation of a distinct seafarer management system for the Hainan free trade port to draw more high-quality talent for the development of Hainan's shipping industry.

The issuance is also a solution to the problem that the management level crew members who hold a foreign certificate of competency cannot serve in China.