This is a very significant
differentiation.
这是个非常关键的区别。
Product
differentiation is critical to the company's future.
产品差异化对公司的未来至关重要。
The
differentiation between these product ranges will increase.
这产品系列之间的差别将会加大。
**Example**: The
differentiation of x^2 is 2x.
**中文释义**: x^2的导数是2x。
**Example**: In calculus,
differentiation is a method to find the rate at which a function changes.
**中文释义**: 在微积分中，微分是一种求解函数变化速率的方法。
**Example**: The process of
differentiation in biology leads cells to specialize into different types.
**中文释义**: 在生物学中，分化过程使细胞专门化为不同类型的细胞。
**Example**: Differentiation of the product (fg)' requires the use of the product rule.
**中文释义**: 对乘积(fg)'进行微分需要使用乘积法则。
**Example**: In market strategy, product
differentiation helps companies stand out from competitors.
**中文释义**: 在市场策略中，产品差异化帮助公司从竞争对手中脱颖而出。
**Example**: The derivative of the sine function, sin(x), with respect to x is cos(x).
**中文释义**: 正弦函数sin(x)关于x的导数是cos(x)。
**Example**: Differentiation can also refer to the separation of complex mixtures into simpler components.
**中文释义**: 分离复杂混合物成更简单成分的过程也称为分化。
**Example**: In economics, perfect competition assumes firms have no product
differentiation.
**中文释义**: 在经济学中，完全竞争假设公司之间产品无差异化。
**Example**: The chain rule in
differentiation is used when finding the derivative of a composite function.
**中文释义**: 在求复合函数的导数时需要用到链式法则。
**Example**: Neural
differentiation involves the transformation of stem cells into specialized nerve cells.
**中文释义**: 神经分化涉及干细胞转化为特化的神经细胞。
Companies that fail to effectively implement unique branding or product differentiation strategies are expected to face more competition in the long term, Ng said.
Ng表示，从长远来看，未能有效实施独特品牌或产品差异化战略的公司预计将面临更多竞争。
"Store upgrades are not simply about increasing the quantity, but rather about differentiation.
“门店升级不仅仅是增加数量，而是差异化。
Product differentiation and breakthroughs in research and development have been critical.
产品差异化和研发突破一直至关重要。
Zhou Maohua, an analyst at China Everbright Bank, said profit differentiation between upstream and downstream industries improved in November amid a pickup in domestic demand, an easing in power crunches in some parts of the nation, the correction in raw material prices and government efforts to ease enterprises' burdens.
中国光大银行（China Everbright Bank）分析师周茂华表示，11月，随着国内需求的回升、部分地区电力紧张的缓解、原材料价格的调整以及政府减轻企业负担的努力，上下游行业的利润分化有所改善。
Zheng said Descente's unique professional performance and niche designs have proved popular among high-end consumers who have growing interest in brands with more individuality and differentiation.
郑先生表示，Descente的独特专业表现和小众设计受到了对个性化和差异化品牌兴趣日益增长的高端消费者的欢迎。
Jiang Kaiyang, director of investment bank Taihecap, said there has been an extreme differentiation in financing in the education sector this year.
太和资本投资银行部负责人姜凯阳表示，今年教育领域的融资出现了严重的分化。
Jiang Kaiyang, director of investment bank Taihecap, said there is extreme differentiation in financing in the education sector this year.
泰合资本投资银行部董事总经理江凯阳表示，今年教育行业的融资情况出现了极度分化。
Topline results of the recent phase 1 clinical trial in the US confirm possible differentiation of lemzoparlimab in drug safety and a more favorable pharmacokinetics profile in cancer patients.
Our diverse portfolio, combining specialty and complex generics…that could really bring some differentiation and value to China," Mario Madeira, Teva's Asia-Pacific cluster head, said.
Zhu Danpeng, an independent food and beverage analyst, said the focus of Coca-Cola on beverages-marked by its slogan to become a total beverage company-has given it more edge in differentiation from other beverage producers, through its multiple brand and cross category strategy, creating a more diversified consumption scenario.
Wang Xinxin, a professor from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, said the Positioning Theory emphasized the differentiation when enterprises make strategic decisions, as well as winning the prospect's mind and letting people realize brand value, but enterprises should do more to satisfy personalized and dynamic demands from consumers.
We want to establish a more exclusive relationship with product differentiation between online and offline to make sure that consumers have a good reason to shop and not find the same product everywhere.
It's also a challenging competitive market, so you need to be really sharp and clear about what your differentiation is here because there are so many competitors.
I think the response is similar in most markets: if you are not one of them, you need to figure out what your value proposition is, what your differentiation is, and make sure you know how you are going to coexist with them either by competing with them or cooperating with them.
Awareness, differentiation can help Chinese enterprises gain recognitionWhile some traditional brands are striving to shine on the international stage after achieving acceptance in the domestic market, many new entrants are seeking global success first and considering the domestic market later.
"I think one of the key things Chinese brands need to do in a bid to be global players around the world, is to increase awareness, and differentiation, and fine tune those brands, targeting specific regions," Roth suggested.
We have two clear points of differentiation versus our peers.
But Yu Deqing, a council member of the Institute of Interior Design of the Architectural Society of China, said design is a gamechanger only when the product category faces high supply and fierce competition, requiring higher differentiation among products.
In recent years, CFLD has explored differentiation development strategies in various cities and established more than 80 new industry cities in Beijing and the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Henan, as well as in Indonesia.
"I suggest that short video service providers should have unique differentiation.
Shenzhen-based SF Express adopts a differentiation strategy, competing by focusing on highquality service, especially business express, which is "a drive to its high profit to surpass its competitors," Yang said.
At the same time, it will also continue to improve its product differentiation and increase market share in the running, boxing, basketball, female fitness, cross-training and skiing sports segments, said Ding.
Wang said Mobike has always been focusing on product differentiation and users' emotional connections with the brand, which he believes is the essence of winning customers' hearts.
Looking at the consumption structure, one may find that the differentiation issue is becoming more obvious now, and one phenomenon worth noting is that regarding domestic consumption, the proportion of consumption by middle and low-income earners is declining, while that by high-income groups is increasing.
The impact of COVID-19 situation on goods consumption is obviously much smaller than that on services, so if COVID-19 situation is the main factor restricting household consumption, we are supposed to have a clear view of a structural differentiation in commodities and services consumption－that is, commodity consumption gradually inching closer to the trendline level, while service consumption deviates significantly from its own.
They can avoid homogeneous price competition and allow the market to value the differentiation and uniqueness of their products made possible by the accumulation of technology and patents.
"Differentiation is the core engine for the growth of Chinese companies, and it is thus important to figure out and amplify their unique values, making them more welcome among consumers," he added.
That has led to significant differentiation for profits among various industries, and such gaps will cause bottlenecks in the running of the economy.
China currently adopts a complicated power pricing system under which the formation of on-grid electricity prices depends on factors such as the types of power generation and the approval dates and locations of renewable power projects, while electricity prices for end-users also vary among regions and according to types and amounts of usage, including differentiation among residential and industrial users, industries, and voltages.
Although investment willingness rebounded to some extent, differentiation of business performance among industries intensified.
At the same time, it will face the shocks of supply and demand because of domestic industry differentiation and changes in situations overseas.
First, already a reality, is that growing costs of raw materials have led to intensified industrial enterprise differentiation among various industries, affecting the balance and sustainability of the recovery of the industrial sector.
Here I'd like to introduce two concepts: vertical differentiation and horizontal differentiation.
Vertical differentiation involves finding a quality/price mix that will differentiate the brand from its competitors, and that appeals to enough consumers and can be profitably implemented.
Horizontal differentiation refers to any differentiation that is not associated with the product's quality or price point.
While vertical differentiation stresses on high quality of products, horizontal differentiation emphasizes that products should create their own brand identity.
Compared with increases of the PMI for medium and large enterprises, small manufacturers saw PMI contract to 48.8 in May from 50.8 in April, indicating a structural differentiation of the economy, said Liu Xuezhi, a senior researcher at Bank of Communications' Financial Research Center, as reported by 21st Century Business Herald.
Now, China and the rest of the world face the common task of dealing with the economic differentiation or polarization.
"Considerable differentiation is expected between China — where effective containment measures, a forceful public investment response, and central bank liquidity support have facilitated a strong recovery — and others," the WEO noted.
"Considerable differentiation is expected between China — where effective containment measures, a forceful public investment response, and central bank liquidity support have facilitated a strong recovery — and other economies," it said.
Gao believed that with continued efforts and policy adjustments, Chinese brands will be able to better meet the demand for high-quality products, address brand differentiation challenges, and carve out a more prominent image in the global market.
There is an increasing demand for hotels to create brand differentiation through products such as fragrances," Wu added.
"Since the fast food sector has become highly competitive, innovations in marketing and differentiation such as children's meals with beloved IPs have brought more family consumers into their stores.
"An Guangyong, an expert at the Professional Committee of Credit Management of China Mergers and Acquisitions Association, said: "Enterprises should pay attention to improving workers' professional literacy and skill level, and enhancing the professionalism and differentiation of services.
To realize sustainable development, Cui said firms should focus on technological innovation and product differentiation, raise product performance and quality, and improve market competitiveness.
Thus, the focus of the cruise industry also needs to shift from volume to quality, from price-cutting to launching more value-added services, therefore creating differentiation and accurately attracting more customers.
To realize high-quality development, Shi said brand differentiation is key.
The future competition will be in brand differentiation, he said.
For Li Yutong, marketing chief of Damei Center, a 5A office building in the eastern part of CBD area, the developers are making more efforts in product differentiation.
In periods when costs are rising, most choose not to raise prices in order to stabilize the market, but this will obstruct income increases for first-line practitioners, said Yang, adding the express industry should gradually improve the price formation mechanism based on service refinement and quality differentiation.
The differentiation among resorts has been important in increasing attendance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zhou Minliang, a senior researcher at the Institute of Industrial Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said through making good use of local specialty industries, different cities can produce products with different local characteristics that cater to diversified needs from consumers, which is good for competitive differentiation.
中国社会科学院工业经济研究所高级研究员周民良表示，通过充分利用地方特色产业，各城市可以生产出满足消费者多元化需求、具有不同地方特色的产品，有利于实现竞争优势的差异化。
Brands like Nongfu have developed more flavors to attract new consumers by raising the bar for more differentiation and innovation, said Zhu.
“朱（Zhu）表示，像农夫山泉这样的品牌通过提升产品差异化和创新的标准，开发了更多口味，以此来吸引新消费者。”
Meanwhile, stores offering better services and experiences, focusing on differentiation, omni-channel integration and healthy lifestyles are expected to be more popular in the future.
预计未来，那些提供更优质服务和体验、注重差异化、实现全渠道融合及倡导健康生活方式的店铺将更受青睐。
Jiang said ice cream producers should stress on low-sugar and lowfat varieties, and innovate their product formulas, taste, packaging and branding to enhance differentiation in a fiercely competitive marketplace.
It will also further intensify the differentiation and the integration of the real estate industry.
The real estate sector continues to experience differentiation during the first half, Yan Yuejin, director of Shanghai-based E-house China Research and Development Institution, told the newspaper.
Official from the China Index Academy predicted that in the future, property control policies will focus on stability, differentiation and structure optimization.
In the next few years, mid-end and higher-end hotels should establish distinguished brand images and strengthen customer loyalty via differentiation strategies, instead of merely satisfying the traditional and standardized demand of business travel," Mei said.
"I would also suggest that providers have unique differentiation and newcomers should avoid entering countries already dominated by early arrivers. "
Although most consumers rarely use relevant services on a daily bases, satellite communications will still play an important role in some rare cases and become an important choice for high-end products to create differentiation.
Cui Tingting, research manager at IDC China, said the intense competition in China's cloud market has forced leading cloud service companies to further seek differentiation while offering products and quickly adjust their business models.
"The competitive landscape of the automotive industry has entered a period of deep reshaping," said Zhang Yongwei, vice-chairman and secretary-general of the China EV 100 at a media communication conference recently, sharing that 2024 should be a year of more intense competition and more differentiation in the competitive landscape.
"Automotive brands need to make that distinct differentiation and create a connected and loyal consumer base as the EV space becomes more crowded.
The size of the market is very large, and there is a lot of opportunity for differentiation," Duggal said.
As their products have the advantage of differentiation, NEV startups will not be affected too much by Tesla's price reduction.
Hyundai's affiliate Kia Motors Corporation is launching an initiative to rejoin the ranks of mainstream vehicle brands in China, and the key advantage is differentiation, a senior executive said.
"The differentiation of products propels us to expand," he added.
The differentiation of products can propel Chinese companies to expand around the world.
"This will serve as a critical guarantee for Byton's quality growth and development, and differentiation.
The Lexus brand philosophy appears externally in its design concepts, which is also one of the critical essences that fuels the brand's evolution and differentiation, according to Ezumi.
"Peugeot and Citroen's differentiation in the Chinese market is subtle.
"The company's high-performance braking systems and other world-class technologies represent real differentiation in the markets FAW Jiefang serves. "
The broad demand for personalized differentiation is transmitting to the production side now, as noted by a report titled Gen Z's Role in Shaping the Digital Economy, published by Oxford Economics last month.
"For businesses, digitalization is no longer a differentiation advantage, but has become a prerequisite for development," said Zhu Wei, chairman of Accenture Greater China.
According to the circular, People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, and four other government departments vowed to set up a quality appraisal system with a default ratio at its core, and build rating methodology systems that can achieve a reasonable differentiation by the end of 2022.
Rating agencies have gradually lowered the proportion of high ratings, and a rating system that can achieve more reasonable credit differentiation is taking shape, Wu said.
According to the circular, the country's central bank and four other government departments vowed to set up a quality appraisal system with a default ratio at its core, and build rating methodology systems that can achieve reasonable differentiation by the end of 2022.
Rating agencies have gradually lowered the proportion of high ratings, and a rating system that can achieve more reasonable credit differentiation is taking shape, according to Wu.
Tian Xuan, an associate dean and a professor of finance at the PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University, highlighted the differentiation should be further expanded between BSE, ChiNext and the STAR market, in issuance conditions, trading mode and governance mechanism.
Haefele noted that credit differentiation would increase, which makes selection increasingly important.
"In recent years, ABC has emphasized product differentiation, launched a series of lending products and policies that have regional characteristics and focused on niche markets to support key projects and the development of distinctive industries in poverty-stricken areas," Zhang said.
Financial institutions will eventually find their competitive differentiation and form a diversified competitive landscape, as soon as they precisely determine their market positioning based on their areas of expertise and pooled resources to offer financial products with distinguishing features," said Ba Shusong, chief economist of the China Banking Association.
After Chinese regulators took over the troubled Baoshang Bank Co Ltd last year, increased differentiation of channels and costs among banks to replenish liquidity had an impact on banks where a large part of liabilities are interbank liabilities, Zeng said.
While maintaining its strength in conventional gold consumption, the China National Gold Group has adopted strategies such as brand differentiation and upgrades to improve the shopping experience, integrate the online and off-line business, as well as business innovation, added Chen.
Instead, as a highly internationalized payments giant, PayPal may pool its resources to strongly develop cross-border payments and foster competitive differentiation while bringing the advantages of GoPay into full play at the same time, Dong wrote.
The trend of asset quality improvement and net interest margin stabilization will continue in the second half of this year but the differentiation among banks will intensify.
Mehta said the investment principle at Acadian is to look at market cap differentiation in terms of large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap stocks.
[Photo/Xinhua]The new draft regulations for financial institutions' asset management business will lead to further differentiation among banks offering such services, academics said.
This will help increase differentiation of the business segment.
"The intensified competition and decreased profit led by interest rate liberalization, the differentiation of technology-driven product caused by homogenization of inefficient competition, the new generation of financial upgrade transformation brought by internet technology, the substitution of efficient technology required by the economy-driven rising cost of manpower and the need of financial services to promote intrinsic value are all included.
The meeting called for greater priority to be given to the development of advanced manufacturing clusters, taking the whole country into account, guiding all localities to leverage their comparative advantages and intensifying work related to specialization and differentiation.