There's a
crack in this cup.
这只杯子有一条裂纹。
The egg began to
crack.
鸡蛋开始裂了。
Water seeped from a
crack in the pipe.
水从管道的一个裂缝中渗出。
There is a
crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
裂缝之处，即有光明。
Chinese tech company Oppo unveiled its latest foldable smartphone Find N3 series on Thursday, in its latest push to expand its overseas presence and crack the high-end market to compete with Samsung.
周四，中国科技公司Oppo推出了其最新的可折叠智能手机Find N3系列，这是其扩大海外业务、打入高端市场与三星竞争的最新举措。
Chinese technology company Xiaomi Corp will invest 20 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) in research and development this year, in an effort to crack the high-end, AI-backed smartphone market where competitors including Honor, Oppo and Vivo are all pushing to expand their presence, despite what experts call "limited progress" so far.
中国科技公司小米公司（Xiaomi Corp）今年将投资200亿元人民币（27亿美元）进行研发，以打入高端人工智能支持的智能手机市场。尽管专家称迄今为止进展“有限”，但包括Honor、Oppo和Vivo在内的竞争对手都在努力扩大其业务。
GSI successively overcame technical difficulties in building the vessel, including cutting and welding of crack resistant steels and automatic welding of crack resistant steel robots, under the guidance of a large container ship expert group from CSSC, according to the statement.
声明称，在中船重工大型集装箱船专家组的指导下，GSI先后克服了建造该船的技术困难，包括抗裂钢的切割和焊接以及抗裂钢机器人的自动焊接。
"The cooperation between CATL and Primergy Solar has set a good example of joint efforts to crack the hard nut of the new energy development. "
“CATL与Primergy Solar的合作树立了一个共同努力破解新能源发展难题的良好榜样。”
In addition, after the relocation work－thanks to the combined efforts of the SOE and seven municipal departments－the project team faced tunneling work following an underground path passing over the Nanjing-Qidong Railway, another hard nut to crack for the team.
此外，在国有企业和七个市政部门的共同努力下，搬迁工作完成后，项目组面临着穿过宁启铁路的地下通道的隧道施工，这是项目组面临的另一个难题。
"Aside from the impact from the Ulan Buh Desert, what made protection work even harder is that the area is confronting multiple impacts brought by the environmental issues of neighboring areas, such as water and soil erosion at Wula Mountain and landslide issues in nearby mining areas," said Jia Haiyuan, project manager with Third Construction Co Ltd of China Construction First Group (CSCEC1B3), a unit of China State Construction Engineering Group Co Ltd. With the area facing tough and numerous environmental issues, Ulansuhai Nur has an area "awaiting cleanup" of its 14,700 square kilometers, making it the "hardest nut to crack" among its peers, which was exactly what the company was facing back in June 2019, when it came here to work with the local government to make fundamental changes to the area.
中建一集团第三建筑有限公司（CSCEC1B3）项目经理贾海元表示：“除了乌兰布沙漠的影响外，使保护工作更加困难的是，该地区还面临着周边地区环境问题带来的多重影响，如乌拉山的水土流失和附近矿区的滑坡问题。”，作为中国建筑工程集团有限公司旗下的子公司，由于该地区面临着严峻和众多的环境问题，乌兰海努尔有14700平方公里的“待清理”区域，成为同行中“最难解决的问题”，这正是该公司在2019年6月面临的问题，当它来到这里与当地政府合作，对该地区进行根本性的改变时。
There are 27 bridges planned in the project, which have a total length of 37.7 km and six tunnels at 6.4 km, including the 1,353-meter Dangyang tunnel, which became a "hard nut to crack" throughout the whole construction project.
该项目规划桥梁27座，总长37.7公里，隧道6座，长6.4公里，其中1353米的当阳隧道成为贯穿整个建设项目的“难啃的硬骨头”。
There are 27 bridges planned in the project, which have a total length of 37.7 km, and six tunnels, 6.4 km, including the 1,353-meter-long Dangyang tunnel, a 'hard nut to crack' over the whole construction project.
该项目规划有27座桥梁，总长37.7公里，6座隧道，6.4公里，其中包括1353米长的当阳隧道，这是整个建设项目的“难题”。
"Before our tunneling machine finally reached its journey-end at Hainan Road Station, it went underneath two rivers and two bridges, and the soil down there is mainly mucky clay, making tunneling and consolidation work tough nuts to crack," he said.
他说：“在我们的隧道掘进机最终到达海南路站的终点之前，它穿过了两条河流和两座桥梁，下面的土壤主要是淤泥质粘土，这使得隧道掘进和加固工作难以破解。”。
The tonnage and size of the modules are 1.5 times that of regular ones, with a single deck weighing nearly 700 metric tons, which was "a hard nut to crack during production".
模块的吨位和尺寸是普通模块的1.5倍，单层重量近700公吨，这是“生产过程中难以破解的难题”。
"In the past year, many Chinese game advertisers want to crack the Japanese market, which is mature and features high-value users," Wang said, adding the company's report shows Japan's gamers are very loyal, and its seven-day retention rate of gamers is above 10 percent across all gaming sub-categories and platforms.
王说：“在过去的一年里，许多中国游戏广告商都想打入日本市场，因为日本市场已经成熟，拥有高价值用户。”他补充道，该公司的报告显示，日本的游戏玩家非常忠诚，其所有游戏子类和平台的游戏玩家七天留存率都在10%以上。
"Antitrust efforts will not crack down on a single company or industry," said Li Chao, chief analyst at Zheshang Securities.
"China's antitrust efforts do not aim to crack down on a single company or industry," said Zhong Gang, head of the Competition Law Research Institute at East China University of Political Science and Law.
Nation steps up regulation of big tech companiesCybersecurity reviews launched by China into internet platforms, including Didi Global, underline the country's resolve to crack down on data breaches and misuse, according to legal experts and technology industry observers.
The State Administration for Market Regulation slapped fines amounting to 36.5 million yuan ($5.73 million) on 15 tutoring firms on Tuesday for false advertising and pricing frauds, as the government continued its efforts to crack down on irregularities in the private education sector.
Dong Dengxin, director of the Finance and Securities Institute, which is part of Wuhan University of Science and Technology in Hubei province, said Washington is using a variety of excuses to crack down on Chinese companies.
The spokesperson of China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement published on the ministry's official website the US side overgeneralizes the concept of national security and continuously misuses export control measures to crack down on and contain a single company from another country.
But the Inspur incident highlights once again that Chinese tech companies are facing increasing uncertainties in their supply chains as Washington has intensified its push to crack down on them and new US export restrictions keep popping up, analysts said.
Yi Huiman, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said in a recent article that the securities regulator will crack down on financial fraud and other legal breaches in the capital market.
The country's top securities regulator vowed to resolutely crack down on securities fraud and protect investors' interests, according to the announcement.
No matter where the company was listed, CSRC would investigate and crack down on fraudulent securities behaviors based on the law and international securities supervision cooperation arrangements, CSRC said.
Chinese authorities launched a nationwide campaign to crack down on irregularities in the health product market after an investigation into the Quanjian case started in December 2018.
"Logistics and payment are arguably the biggest challenges compared with a domestic online business," said Yang Wanli, who oversees cross-border business at Chasha Pinguan Leather Trading Co Ltd. "Our online sales experience at home surely helps us crack the code but more concerted efforts are needed between vendors and the platform.
To ease urban traffic congestion and crack down on air pollution, BYD invested a total of 5 billion yuan to create SkyRail, a monorail mass transit system providing residents a low-carbon and more convenient way of traveling.
"Most countries have always been highly alert to US government acts of resorting to state power to crack down on companies in other countries, disrupt markets and obstruct mutually beneficial cooperation between other countries," Lu said.
"For some time, the US has been using its power to tarnish and crack down on specific Chinese enterprises in an attempt to strangle their lawful and legitimate operations.
Other ongoing reforms include creating a development plan and improving regulations on fintech services, in order to further open the onshore bond market and crack down on shadow banking and internet financing risks, the central bank official statement said.
"While the other three leagues (National Football League, MLB and the National Hockey League) have all been in the market for years, they are all still trying to crack the cultural code to get the sports ingrained into the DNA of the population.
Last month, more than 9,800 self-media accounts were punished in the campaign to crack down on illicit activities on social media, including spreading rumors or pornographic information, by the Cyberspace Administration of China.
The success of Royal Mail's Tmall Global store has been impressive, especially when you consider that British retailers, including Marks & Spencer and Tesco, have failed to crack the Chinese market and have ultimately decided to exit the country in recent years.
Several high-profile Western brands have struggled to crack the market in China, where consumer preferences differ and bricks-and-mortar sales are dwarfed by online purchases.
The State Administration for Market Regulation has ordered local market watchdogs to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit and shoddy goods.
Tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum imports were imposed by the Trump administration on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union (EU) in June as part of a crack down on alleged trade abuses.
The State Administration for Market Regulation on Thursday ordered local market regulators to crack down on the production and sale of counterfeit and shoddy goods after alleged violations by Pinduoduo sparked heated discussion.
"Pinduoduo has never produced a single counterfeit product and has been making all efforts to crack down on such goods.
Reinforce the protection of intellectual property and crack down on fake products.
Its success highlights how important technological superiority is to crack open a traditional sector dominated by established players.
Vimicro has partnered with the Ministry of Public Security to draft part of a national standard on video surveillance, which can help better leverage technology to crack down on crimes.
"The actions of the defendant not only harm the image of Mobike but also create costs in the process of cleaning up the ads," said Sun Keqing, legal supervisor of the company, adding Mobike will continue to seek legal action to crack down on posting illegal ads on its shared bikes.
He isn't apologetic about his intention to use all that experience to crack the China market wide open for UGG.
Since the Shanxi-based Taiyuan Iron & Steel Co Ltd, or Tisco, managed to crack the hard nut, the biggest ballpoint pen manufacturing giant in the world will no longer depend on imports of stainless steel to produce the writing instrument.
Even though the sportswear sector is tough to crack, Particle Fever has started with a bang as loud as a starter's pistol.
But the e-commerce giants will find it hard to crack the largest category－fresh food－due to the high costs of cold-chain delivery and the low shipping fees customers are prepared to pay, according to research by Goldman Sachs in March.
It's important to produce talent to support the "silver economy" development while more strict measures will be released to crack down on illegal behaviors of defrauding the elderly, according to the guidelines.
The global digital trade rules on certain articles that have already been drafted herald a promising outcome, but experts said the participating parties will have tougher nuts to crack, such as permanent exemption of tariffs on electronic transmissions and cross-border data flows, and will need more time for discussions.
Efforts should be made to crack down on fraud and insider trading, and create a fairer and more efficient and sustainable institutional environment.
Now is the best time to crack the high-end market," Shi said.
They stipulate that strict efforts should be made to crack down on violations of the rights of private enterprises and entrepreneurs, including their vilification or defamation through the internet or publications.
Meanwhile, we will cooperate with relevant departments to crack down on malicious rumors and smears against private enterprises," An said.
In contrast with moves by the United States to crack down on Chinese technology products and apps such as TikTok, the analysts said China is committed to opening its doors wider to the outside world, sending a positive signal for foreign companies seeking opportunities in the ultra-large Chinese market.
At the same time, the Chinese government also launched actions to protect the intellectual property rights of foreign enterprises, increase efforts to crack down on acts of infringement of their intellectual property, and effectively safeguard the rights and interests of foreign companies, according to the SAMR.
The country will also take measures to ensure stable prices and supplies of those key commodities, step up market supervision, strengthen regulation of the future and spot markets, and crack down on illegal activities such as hoarding and price gouging, he told a news conference held in Beijing on Monday.
Authorities will share risk information, conduct joint analysis, and synergize their operations to forestall and crack down on the illegal imports and exports of drugs, guns and explosives, endangered species of animals and plants, and cultural relics, said the GAC, adding that there will be strong deterrence against trafficking.
Seen from a demographic perspective, encouraging more urbanization is a tough nut to crack in the process of achieving modernization with Chinese characteristics.
"More efforts will be made to boost global IPR governance and crack down on infringements and counterfeiting, as well as strengthen international cooperation in the above fields," he added.
Efforts should also be made to ensure overall stability in financial markets, appropriately deal with risks from rural banks in some localities, and crack down on financial crimes.
The meeting underscored the need to properly defuse risks from village and township banks in some areas and crack down on financial crimes.
"Global practices showed that antitrust efforts relating to the platform economy didn't crack down on any specific giant, but stimulated innovation and entrepreneurship, and furthermore ensured the market in general prospers.
Citing the NDRC's recent meetings to crack down on illegalities and irregularities such as price gouging, Yin Yue, a macroeconomic analyst at Shanghai-listed Hongta Securities, said there is insufficient room for further hog price gains in the coming months, and China's relatively stable prices level leaves room to step up macro policy support.
In addition to support, the central government will enhance supervision of the job market, crack down agencies making false promise and eradicate illegal behavior such as publishing false recruitment information, in order to better protect short-term laborers.
Efforts will be made to crack down on irregular practices in the gig economy market to better protect gig workers' rights, the guideline said.
It emphasized the country will prevent platform enterprises from utilizing data, algorithms and other technical means to hinder competition and further crack down on unfair competition in relatively new business formats like platforms and sharing economy.
In this regard, maintaining high investment enthusiasm throughout the year is a hard nut to crack.
It is thus another hard nut that the government has to crack to help players make investments or lead investments in such projects, and lay foundations for the building of a unified domestic market.
China will also strengthen guidance on market expectations, release market information in a timely manner, improve market regulation, and crack down on hoarding, price gouging, dissemination of false information and other illegal behaviors, to resolutely curb excessive speculation.
Zhou expected the government to take more steps to stabilize the supply and industrial chains, maintain supply and price stability and crack down on illegal activities like hoarding and price gouging.
Hu said at a recent news conference that the NDRC will make a big push to ensure stable supplies and prices of key commodities such as grains, coal and iron ore. More efforts will also be made to reinforce supervision of futures and spot markets as well as crack down on market violations and illegal activities like spreading false information, hoarding, price gouging and speculation.
The ministry will continue to optimize China's business environment along with relevant departments, further implement tax and fee cuts and crack down on arbitrary charges to support the development of foreign trade companies, Gao said.
More efforts will also be made to prevent and stop monopolistic behaviors that exclude and limit the participation of SMEs in fair market competition, crack down on all kinds of unfair competition and guide financial institutions to increase support for SMEs.
Stringent measures should be introduced to crack down on black-market data trading and big data swindling to increase transparency.
"But China's antitrust efforts do not aim to crack down on a single company or industry," said Wang Xianlin, director of the Center for Competition Law and Policy at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Amid efforts to crack down on the disorderly expansion of capital and foster fair competition, Chinese authorities have taken a slew of measures targeting monopolies and other irregularities.
The country will work on ensuring security and supplies of energy, boost coal output and crack down on illegal activities like spreading false information and price gouging in the market, the notice stated.
Noting that enterprises are feeling the pressure of rising costs of raw materials, the new document stated the country will closely monitor factors like demand, supply and price changes in the bulk raw materials market, strongly increase supplies, strengthen regulation of commodity futures and the spot market, and crack down on "excessive speculation".
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said the government's recent moves to boost supplies and crack down on illegal activities such as hoarding and collusion in the market will help stabilize market expectations and curb irrational coal price hikes.
To ease the pressure of rising commodity costs for downstream enterprises and SMEs, the commission will step up monitoring and analysis of commodity prices, arrange the release of national reserves, increase market supplies, strengthen regulation of futures and the spot market and crack down on market speculation, said Jiang Yi, deputy director of the NDRC's Department of Comprehensive System Reform.
- China's recent regulations to crack down on the disorderly expansion of capital and monopolies are not targeted at the private sector or companies of any specific ownership types, said the country's top economic planner Thursday.
The premier pledged to strengthen antitrust efforts and crack down on infringements of intellectual property rights to ensure a level playing field for domestic and foreign businesses.
Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, known as the hub of the nation's private economy, has launched a campaign to crack down on problems harmful to the formation of healthy relations between government and businesses.
They also said they believed the government's continued efforts to curb commodity price rises and crack down on irregularities will help stabilize the market.
China will take more steps to curb rising commodity prices and crack down on the hoarding and speculation of commodities, marking a key step to ensure stable prices and supplies of commodities in the market, officials and experts said on Monday.
In the next step, regulators will closely monitor commodity price changes, strengthen regulation of the futures and spot markets and crack down on market violations such as hoarding to maintain normal market order, according to Wan.
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, spoke highly of the government's moves to curb the commodity price rally and crack down on illegal activities such as hoarding, saying the factors supporting this round of commodity speculation are weakening.
He said more efforts should be made to boost domestic supplies, crack down on irregularities on market violations, strengthen cooperative development of foreign mineral resources and encourage domestic manufacturing and extractive companies to invest overseas.
The regulator pledged to closely monitor price changes in the market and strengthen coordinated supervision to crack down on illegal activities.
"Looking to the next five years, we need to strengthen quality and safety supervision over products vital to people's livelihood, promote quality and safety and the traceability of key industrial products, severely crack down on intellectual property rights infringements and counterfeits, closely monitor market supply and demand and changes in prices, strengthen antitrust enforcement, promote fair market competition and protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers," he said.
"More efforts should be made to increase domestic supplies, crack down on market violations and strengthen China's cooperative development of various foreign mineral resources.
At the meeting, the ministry highlighted the need to crack down on spammers and protect consumers, a responsibility that, it said, enterprises should also shoulder.
"China is deploying more resources like big data and artificial intelligence technologies to crack down on spam and telecom fraud," said Fu Liang, a telecom industry analyst.
They will also crack down on market violations such as monopolies in commodities markets and the spread of false information and hoarding.
More efforts are needed to increase effective market supply, crack down on market violations and increase fiscal and financial support for some badly hit companies with bigger potential.
It vowed to crack down on bitcoin mining and trading, and prevent individual risk to spread to society.
Under such circumstances, Chinese companies in both public and private sectors may want to deploy more resources to modernize industrial chains and crack open certain hard nuts like bottlenecks in technological advancements, in order to develop the country into a manufacturing powerhouse.
At the crack of dawn, around 6 am, builders vacated the site in an orderly manner, making way for a test run of an inspection train.
China opposes action by the United States to abuse the concept of national security in an effort to crack down on normal operations by Chinese communication enterprises, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
The country will also enhance compliance requirements for businesses associated with new industry development and firmly crack down on malpractices such as cheating, counterfeiting and acts of bad faith, Li said.
The Chinese leadership has stressed the importance of improving the quality and efficiency of IPR-related trials, enhancing criminal laws and judicial interpretations, and intensifying efforts to crack down on IPR-related crimes.
Xiao urged efforts to modernize industrial chains and "crack hard nuts" such as bottlenecks in technological advancement to develop the country into a manufacturing powerhouse.
To crack down on trademark infringements such as counterfeiting, stealing and imitation, 3,982 cases on branding disputes have been handled via IPR court since 2018.
China will work more closely with overseas regulators and international financial organizations and crack down on financial fraud in cross-border listings and securities issuance, he said.