Wilo is very confident about the Chinese economy, and has a long-term commitment to the Chinese market and will enlarge its investment in China, said Grant Rong, director of government and public affairs at Wilo China Ltd, in an exclusive interview with China Daily Website on a roundup of 2023 and outlook for 2024.

伟乐中国有限公司政府和公共事务总监Grant Rong在接受《中国日报》网站关于2023年综述和2024年展望的独家采访时表示，伟乐对中国经济非常有信心，对中国市场有着长期的承诺，并将扩大在中国的投资。

"We are confident in our future growth here and will continue to enlarge our business here," he said.

他说：“我们对未来在这里的增长充满信心，并将继续扩大我们在这里的业务。”。

"This year, SASAC will encourage SOEs to not only expand effective investment and enlarge their talent pools, but also boost the overall employment market through their driving force along industrial chains," Li Jun, head of the social responsibility bureau at SASAC, said at a news conference in Beijing in April.

4月，国资委社会责任局局长李军在北京举行的新闻发布会上表示：“今年，国资委将鼓励国有企业不仅扩大有效投资，扩大人才库，而且通过其产业链驱动力，促进整体就业市场。”。

"China is our second-largest R&D center, one that I was very pleased to open and enlarge when I was there before the pandemic.

“中国是我们的第二大研发中心，在疫情爆发前，我很高兴能开设并扩大这个中心。

With the growing importance and potentials of the Chinese market, Wilo has announced further investment in R&D and to enlarge its product portfolio in China in its 2025 strategy.

随着中国市场的重要性和潜力不断增长，威洛宣布在2025年战略中进一步投资研发，并扩大其在中国的产品组合。

GMT for Kids, a Norwegian bag manufacturer and a four-time participant at the China International Import Expo, will deploy more resources in China's top and second-tier cities to enlarge sales and benefit from China's consumption upgrading, said its top executive.

挪威箱包制造商、四届中国国际进口博览会参与者GMT for Kids的高管表示，该公司将在中国的一二线城市部署更多资源，以扩大销售额，并从中国的消费升级中受益。

The company plans to increase R&D investment and enlarge product portfolios in China, with a new production base in east China's Changzhou city expected to go into operation early next year to serve the Chinese market and other emerging markets.

该公司计划增加在中国的研发投资并扩大产品组合，位于中国东部常州市的新生产基地预计将于明年初投入运营，服务于中国市场和其他新兴市场。

Elkem Silicones, a Norway-based integrated silicone manufacturer and a unit of China's State-owned Sinochem Holdings Corp Ltd, will invest more than 100 million yuan ($15 million) to enlarge its flagship Asia-Pacific research and innovation (R&I) center in Shanghai this year, said its senior executives.

挪威集成硅树脂制造商、中国国有的中化控股有限公司旗下的Elkem Silicones公司高管表示，该公司今年将投资超过1亿元人民币（1500万美元），扩建其在上海的旗舰亚太研发中心。

Bullish on China's innovation-driven biopharmaceutical environment, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co vows to further enlarge its investment in China, a top official of the Japanese drugmaker said.

Purchasing a majority stake in Piraeus Port－which the Chinese have already made one of the fastest-growing harbors in Europe－will facilitate China, Greece and other economies participating in the Belt and Road Initiative to enlarge their export volume and generate business opportunities in the services sector, said Zhou Zhicheng, a researcher at the Beijing-based China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.

"Through the overseas production bases, Sany Group will further enlarge its overseas investment and increase the proportion of overseas sales to total sales.

"Through innovative sales modes in offline channels, and improved innovation strength and customer service systems, we will introduce more products, including towels and bedding in the home market, especially in lower-tier cities, and enlarge our sales in markets under the framework of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and economies related to the Belt and Road Initiative over the long run," said Xiao Maochang, Sunvim's chairman.

The investment came as JD is ramping up its logistics business by seeking an initial public offering in Hong Kong to enlarge warehouse networks and empower them with technologies.

This is partly attributable to the company's strategy to enlarge its target audience scope and enhance business resilience, executives said during an investor call on Thursday, following the release of its fourth quarter and full-year earnings.

First, it will help them enlarge their customer base with digital technologies.

Company executives said they believe the strategy is a practical way to enlarge National Aviation Fuel's sales network to better serve airlines across the world.

The new container terminal project at Tema Port will not only form a gateway for global companies to build and enlarge their market presence in West Africa, but also further promote international industrial capacity cooperation between China and Ghana, Feng added.

China Gezhouba Group Corp, a Wuhan-based engineering and infrastructure project provider, signed an 11.52-billion-yuan ($1.62 billion) EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract for a hydropower station project in Borneo, Indonesia, late last month to further enlarge its presence in the Southeast Asian market.

As a leading player in the 5G field, the "5G automobile ecosphere" is a meaningful attempt that Huawei manages to enlarge its advantage in the 5G field, and exploits car-to-internet market by providing automakers with vehicle-mounted 5G module MH5000 and car-carried terminal T-Box and services, said the paper.

Jiang said the epidemic has unexpectedly given leading companies a further edge to enlarge their market share, thanks to their advantages in both technology and user penetration.

This has created more space for domestic and global companies to enlarge their sales, he added.

"With China's success in e-commerce and mobile payments, Chinese consumers are trying out new things, while the marketing and selling channels on the supply side enjoy lower costs and higher efficiency, which has created more space for domestic brands to enlarge their sales, said Guo Xin, a marketing professor at Beijing Technology and Business University.

CHEP will continue to invest in the market to enlarge its unit load equipment pool, expand operational networks, and promote products and service innovation and digitalization, Qian said.

"We will actively develop high-end salt products such as salt for medical use, daily necessities and snow-melt business, as well as specially-made salt for children, pregnant women and patients to enlarge our business scale," said Li.

In August last year, the State Council, China's Cabinet, decided to enlarge the applications of bioethanol in the transportation sector, which has made it a national strategy to accelerate the bioethanol industry.

The deal is expected to enable Signify to enlarge its presence by stepping into the WiFi-based smart lighting market.

As COFCO expects to strike a balance between supply and demand on an even higher level and create a more diverse import scenario, it will deploy more resources in BRI economies to accelerate cultivation of farmland, enlarge area under cultivation, adjust crop structure, enhance production technology and increase total supply capacity.

This would enlarge the economy and maintain sustainability, he said.

Fan said WeChat plans to enlarge its local operating team in overseas markets this year, to offer more responsive and tailored services to SSPs and foreign merchants.

Eager to ensure its operational ability, Sinograin plans to optimize the scale and structure for reserving oil and grease, and further enhance its supply ability from other foreign markets and enlarge purchases from its home market.

This would enlarge the economy and maintain sustainability.

"The government may introduce a number of policies to enlarge the domestic market and continue to adopt appropriate measures to ease its fiscal and monetary sector," said Zhang Jie, an analyst at Guotai Junan Securities.

The Beijing-based company set up a goal on Wednesday to "enlarge the platform's Chinese-language learners to more than 100 economies in the next three years".

"This round of financing will be mainly used to enlarge teachers from the US, attract talents as well as accelerate steps on global expansion," said Mi Wenjuan, founder and CEO of VIPKID.

"We want to enlarge our business step by step," said Liebheit, adding that the company needs to double its paste business as well as scale up non-paste business.

DHL is well-positioned to help our customers enlarge their global footprint and facilitate trade around the world with our global network and comprehensive solutions.

"We found a growing number of consumers, especially middle-income earners and millennials in China, have adopted this (adventure-loving) lifestyle as they are willing to pay more to enlarge their experience in outdoor activities and they want better equipment," she said.

The company has carried out a series of acquisitions in the global market and vowed to develop and enlarge its international strategy further for its TV business, R&D, branding and marketing.

To that end, our first purpose in China is to enlarge our capacity of production.

"Meanwhile, we will further expand its reach in second and third-tier cities in China, as we constantly enlarge the fleet," Zhang said, adding that the airline will work together with COMAC to forge a better Chinese commercial aircraft brand.

"We will ramp up efforts to enlarge our overseas business in more countries globally, including the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, as well as increase our international patents," said Huang Yun, chief operating officer of Laidian.

HONG KONG - MTR Corp Ltd from China's Hong Kong will seek to enlarge its overseas businesses as the local market has matured, Chairman Frederick Ma Si-hang has said.

Zhang said the group will further enlarge exports including pesticide and rubber to the economies involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, especially in Southeast Asia and Africa.

Meanwhile, China will also enlarge the geothermal heating area by 1.1 billion sq m. By 2020, China will have 530 million watts of installed capacity in geothermal power as well as 1.6 billion sq m geothermal heating area, according to the country's energy planner.

"Selling automobiles will help Sinopec enlarge its market," she added.

In 2023, Ganqmod Port invested more than 40 million yuan ($5.65 million) to enlarge the original roads, doubling the customs clearance capacity and further improving traffic safety, said Qin.

Infrastructure is a key factor in tourism development and convenient transportation, public service and business environment can further expand the travel radius and enlarge the tourism market, Dai said.

Apart from organizing domestic exporters to take part in key domestic business exhibitions this year, such as China's first edition of a supply chain-themed expo, Yang said China's facilitation of its companies' participation in overseas exhibitions will quicken, encouraging them to enlarge their presence in developing and emerging markets.

Chongqing will issue 12 policies by the end of this month to further increase financial support for consumption and enlarge domestic demand, according to the municipal's press conference on Jan 6.

Participation in trade shows seen expanding business in emerging fieldsChina's facilitation of its companies' participation in overseas exhibitions will quicken, encouraging them to enlarge their presence in developing and emerging markets, the country's top foreign trade and investment promotion agency said on Tuesday.

Bi Jingquan, executive vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, or the CCIEE, said China welcomes South Korean enterprises to enlarge investment in China and expand industrial cooperation in the fields including electronic information, automobile manufacturing, digital economy, and green development, so as to take the complementary advantages and mutual benefit and win-win cooperation between China and South Korea to a higher level.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission said in a statement on Tuesday that it will deepen reforms comprehensively to boost direct financing, expand high-standard capital market opening-up at an institutional level and enlarge overseas channels of listing and financing.

"Services liberalization could enlarge the basket of competitive exports and imports, which will underpin China's quest for industrial upgrading, decarbonization and quality of life improvements," she said.

We used our expertise to enlarge the initial draft by more than 100 times to fit its designated size in the National Exhibition and Convention Center (Shanghai) and ensure its aesthetic standard.

Green tech, advanced tourist facilities essential to island province's developmentWith China expanding many programs to build a modern industrial system that focuses on tourism, high-tech and modern services industries at Hainan Free Trade Port, the country's centrally administrated State-owned enterprises have been rushing to enlarge their market presence at the port this year, said executives.

For the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will enlarge the growth space of China's high-level opening-up platforms such as foreign trade transformation and upgrading bases, comprehensive cross-border e-commerce pilot zones and pilot free trade zones to further optimize the nation's business environment.

Reiterating China's commitment to financial market opening-up, the PBOC vowed on Sunday to simplify the procedures for foreign investors to invest in the Chinese market, enlarge the universe of investable assets, improve data disclosure and the business environment, and extend trading hours of the interbank foreign exchange market.

"We will enlarge the research team in our innovation center in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, to focus on advanced technologies such as robotics, the internet of things and artificial intelligence over the next five years.

To this end, measures should be launched to boost consumption, and one we suggest should be to further enlarge the middle-income group and narrow income gaps through ways such as encouraging more high-income earners to shoulder social responsibilities to boost tertiary distribution, which will boost the progress of achieving common prosperity.

In addition, measures that can enlarge the middle-income group and narrow the income gaps between various strata of society will stoke high-quality development and lead to common prosperity in the coming 10 to 15 years, he said.

Such measures include shortening the negative lists for foreign investment in order to expand market access for foreign investors in various sectors, increasing experiments in pilot free trade zones to help deepen domestic reform, and signing and updating more free trade agreements to enlarge its free trade area network.

ASEAN member states such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar and Malaysia will enlarge their duty-reduction lists for Chinese products, including automobiles, auto parts, motorcycles, chemicals, electromechanical products and steel products.

According to Xi, China will revise and enlarge the encouraged industry catalogue to guide more foreign investment toward sectors such as advanced manufacturing, modern services, high and new technology, energy conservation and environmental protection.

We need to tap into our respective strengths and jointly enlarge the pie of the global market, invigorate all formats of global cooperation and enrich the mechanisms for global sharing, to make economic globalization more open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial for all.

One is to enlarge the economic pie.

Although foreign investment strategies have long focused on global-scale supply chains and leveraging China's advantages, many multinational corporations have already begun to deploy new resources in innovation, logistics and digital solutions in China in recent years, in order to enlarge their market presence and boost the two-way trade in services, he said.

Besides, European companies are increasing spending in China to enlarge their local market share, they said.

The STA also plans to establish a national unified electric bill service platform and enlarge the scale of pilot programs this year.

China will step up efforts to expand its free trade area network with trading partners across the world to enlarge its "circle of friends", while eliminating more tariffs on goods and broadening market access for services trade and investment, according to Commerce Minister Wang Wentao.

China will step up efforts to expand the free trade area network across the world to enlarge its "circle of friends", according to China's Commerce Minister Zhong Shan.

China will firmly expand domestic demand, optimize the pattern of the distribution of income, enlarge the middle-income group, and promote the deep integration of online and offline consumption.

"Wilo is very confident about the Chinese economy and we have a long-term commitment to the Chinese market and will enlarge our investment in China," said Grant Rong, director of government and public affairs at Wilo China Ltd, in an exclusive interview with China Daily Website.

Yao said the Chinese telecoms operator is keen to enlarge its footprint in the African market, citing the continent's expanding consumer base for ICT products and solutions.

With more outbound routes back on line, carriers enlarge recruitment scaleDomestic carriers have ramped up efforts to recruit more employees to embrace the comprehensive recovery of the international travel market following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Under certain conditions, those operating these businesses can enlarge their commercial space, increase profits and take on social responsibility for the city.

He also points out that it is essential to take advantage of the time window when the RCEP "zero tariff" on seafood takes effect, and make good use of Hainan FTP's zero tariff policy for "raw materials and accessories" to enlarge seafood imports.

The index indicates the percentage of users who continue engaging with an app over time, and the improvement in such ranking shows Chinese companies' potential to further enlarge global user scale and catch up with their US-based counterparts who have ruled the industry for years, Wang said.

Industry players should reach a consensus to avoid vicious price competition and enlarge the talent pool to promote the appraisal ability of different agencies," Zhang said.

Property developers would become more active in affordable rental housing development, and this will effectively enlarge the supply of subsidized rental housing, said Huang Hui, senior analyst with the Beike Research Institute.

The less expensive samples enable brands to acquire new customers and enlarge brand influence.

Industry experts said that cosmetic contact lenses not only solve the problem of myopia, but also visually enlarge eyes and make them appear brighter.

""In the coming years, we plan to enlarge the production and sales scale, build a national technology center and a digital production base, and prepare the initial public offering," he said.

China held 1,210 exhibitions in first five months, up 330 percent year-on-yearWith China increasingly bringing the COVID-19 pandemic under better control, the recovery of its convention and exhibition business segment is expected to boost its foreign trade and help foreign corporations enlarge sales in the country's lucrative market, said government officials and business leaders.

After opening its first office in Shanghai in 2014 and its second branch in Beijing this year, the Stuttgart-based company plans to open its third branch office in South China in 2022, as China has already become a strategic market for the German firm and it is keen to continue to enlarge its client base geographically in the country.

It is a practical move for the company to enlarge its sales network to supply more of China's aviation fuel to airlines across the world, Zhou said.

New flavors will meet the demand of young people who crave for something fresh, and it will help to enlarge the scale and eating frequencies of consumers," said Neil Wang, president of consultancy Frost& Sullivan China.

The demand and supply of medical goods in Hubei province, center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, are in a delicate balance, and China will encourage more medical supply companies to resume and even enlarge production capacity, the country’s top industry regulator said on Monday.

The Beijing government said it would accelerate efforts to enlarge the supply of rental housing on collective land around major industrial parks and subway stations.

They helped to enlarge consumer group scales, and raise the average spending and eating frequency," said Neil Wang, president of consultancy Frost & Sullivan in China.

"It can also create more job opportunities, improve farmers' skills and enlarge their income," Ye added.

It plans to set up more LNG terminals on the eastern coast and to enlarge the current LNG terminal in Tianjin to increase its receiving capacity.

The camp will offer participants opportunities to tap into the field of technology innovation and investment, engage in exchanges with peers from around the world so as to enlarge their social networks, and actualize their entrepreneurial ideas by establishing their own ventures.

If computing power is compared to the oxygen concentration in the environment, and the magnitude of sensor data are compared to food, then the oxygen concentration in the environment would enlarge and the food in the environment would be in abundance, which makes the scenario very suitable for the development of high-level autonomous driving companies, Yu said.

"The joint venture will play a significant role as we continue to enlarge our portfolio and global presence and solidify our strong position in the mobility market," said Klaus Entenmann, CEO of Daimler Financial Services AG.

With nine LNG terminals scattered across the country, especially on the east coast, the company said it plans to set up more LNG terminals in Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and enlarge the current LNG terminal in Tianjin to increase its receiving capacity.

Li said the smart car industry is able to enlarge the current car industry by 1 trillion yuan ($158.15 billion) and also able to boost fast development in 5G, internet of cars, big data, artificial intelligence and new-energy vehicles.

Beyond two existing R&D centers in Shanghai, ZF will further enlarge its innovation capabilities in China, he added.

"Selling automobiles and oil will promote the performance of both divisions, and will help Sinopec Corp to enlarge its market," she said.

In his view, building core competencies through independent innovation is of great significance for an enterprise to strengthen competitiveness, enlarge the product portfolio as well as expand global footprint.

In the next three years, the company aims to enlarge the team to 2,500 people.