Eric stared at the foreigner in wonder.
埃里克好奇地盯着那个外国人看。
Mary wedded a foreigner.
玛丽嫁给了一个外国人。
Eric's accent argues him to be a foreigner.
埃里克的腔调表明他是个外国人。
"It will become a comprehensive platform for foreigners to have access to information about Guangdong, providing a convenient tool for living and working in Guangdong," said Hou.
侯说：“它将成为外国人获取广东信息的综合平台，为在广东生活和工作提供便利。”。
A video clip went viral on Chinese social media on Thursday that showed staff from the brand refusing to give free ice cream to a Chinese female visitor by saying that the promotional gift had run out, but a foreigner was offered ice cream a few moments later.
周四，一段视频在中国社交媒体上疯传，视频显示，该品牌的工作人员拒绝向一名中国女游客免费赠送冰淇淋，称促销礼物已经用完，但几分钟后，一名外国人得到了冰淇淋。
The video also showed several foreigners eating ice cream near the Mini booth.
视频还显示，几名外国人在迷你摊位附近吃冰淇淋。
In Friday's announcement, Mini China, the brand's Chinese Weibo account, explained that the foreigners who received free ice cream in the short video are actually company employees, while the ice cream for visitors had run out at the time.
在周五的公告中，该品牌的中国微博账号Mini China解释说，在短视频中收到免费冰淇淋的外国人实际上是公司员工，而当时游客的冰淇淋已经用完了。
Mushrooms from Hubei province and preserved pickles from Chongqing have all rolled out overseas versions to cater to the palates of foreigners, Feng added.
One of North America's largest Chinese and Asian food delivery app service providers, Fantuan, revealed an ambitious set of targets that it said will boost its presence among foreigner consumers and diversify its business scope in North America amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
As a foreigner living and working in China for the past two decades, I have witnessed a lot of changes already.
"While first-tier city residents have more exposure by traveling more internationally, and they have more foreigners who typically know about these brands… I see more commonalities of consumers across all city tiers: expect high-quality fruits," he said.
"StarRides CEO Tom Gu said: "While the demand from international business travelers coming to China has not recovered yet due to COVID-19, over the past year, we discovered the demand for premium ride-hailing from foreigners living in China.
With our English app and a service process specifically catering to foreigners' requirements, we are addressing these needs.
In October, he received the Shanghai Magnolia Gold Award, which recognizes foreigners who have made outstanding contributions to the social and economic development of the city.
"In recent years, as TCM was having a constantly increasing influence over the international markets, and the foreigners' acceptance levels of TCM rose, we launched the registration of Lianhuaqingwen capsules in some countries," Wu said.
On May 1, two charter flights from Seoul with 136 South Korean technicians and supply representatives landed at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, marking the first batch of foreigners to return to Wuhan, Hubei province, to resume work since the novel coronavirus outbreak began late last year.
JD Health also offers consultation services in English to facilitate foreigners to seek medical help.
With the ongoing further integration of the delta region, the hospital, which expects to see continued growth in expat clients, will also "provide internationally topnotch and comprehensive medical services to foreigners to contribute to the region's aspiration of absorbing talents from home and abroad", she added.
It will hire 1,000 graduates, include foreigners, this year.
But over time, the younger customers aged between 30 and 50 have made up the majority of the 10-person group, some of whom are foreigners living in China.
Around 15,000 foreign traders from more than 100 countries are stationed in Yiwu and more than 400,000 foreigners come to the city to do business every year, official data showed.
"When I joined the industry in 1980s, almost 99 percent of foreign brand hotels' customers were foreigners.
"Let foreigners admire the fact that we can not only do it, but also do it skillfully.
"The Foreign Investment Law sounds like it's just for foreigners, but frankly it's for everybody," said Allan Gabor, president of Merck China, adding that the law lifts the whole operating environment by giving Merck a lot of encouragement, because many of the investments the company makes today are things that will come five and 10 years into the future.
Lipson, who established China's first foreign-owned hospital in 1997 and experienced the complicated process to set up a company in China as a foreigner, is very excited to see healthcare deleted from the proposed negative list.
She said that in the past, many foreigners associated "Made in China" products with poor quality, and that Chinese companies were only thought capable of manufacturing, with limited capability for design, research and development.
Greenberg, one of 10 foreigners awarded the China Reform Friendship Medal by President Xi Jinping last year, said trade talks between the Chinese and US governments were "going forward quite well".
"Although pinyin may make some names difficult to pronounce for foreigners, Huawei is a good example how a strong brand with strong consumer experience and branding effort can cut through the clutter," she said.
"More and more foreigners now turn to Chinese patent medicines, because of efforts from the Chinese authorities and pharmaceutical companies to promote TCM, and to prove TCM can reliably treat and prevent disease, through scientific research.
However, there is still a long way ahead for Chinese patent medicines to be widely accepted and acknowledged around the world, not only because foreigners are largely not aware of TCM culture and theories, but also because it is difficult to register Chinese patent medicines under Western-style new drug registration systems, Yu said.
The downside of WeChat Pay is that not many foreigners use WeChat, and it takes time and effort to develop payment tools overseas," Chou added.
The bike-sharing service app Ofo is alleged to give higher priority to foreigners in terms of releasing deposits while neglecting mounting requests from its Chinese users struggling to get their deposits back, the Beijing Daily reported.
On Thursday, a Chinese netizen posted on the microblogging platformSina Weibo, saying that instead of waiting forever on the phone to get through to the Ofo customer service, he decided to try the "foreigner suing strategy.
The post sparked an outcry among Chinese netizens who are both disappointed and outraged at what seemed to be the company's two-faced treatment to its domestic and foreign customersThe hashtag, "Pretend to be foreigners and Ofo returns deposits in seconds", has received at least 240 million views on Weibo.
With the reform and opening-up policies, foreigners can also take leisure and business travel within China.
"We will also pay attention to the 70 million foreigners who learn the Chinese language and culture overseas as well as the nearly 500,000 international students in China," said Li.
"The kingdom of bicycles" was one of the many names foreigners used several decades ago to refer to the populous east Asian country well-known for its long history and cultural wealth.
Chinese authorities dealing with foreigner affairs in China use its information management system, Wang said.
"Wang Ying, former general manager of CCTV Animation, said Chinese cartoons are facing strong challenges in terms of translation and helping foreigners learn about and understand Chinese culture.
It is also involved in the face information and fingerprint collection and card manufacturing of passports and work permits for foreigners in China under the permission of authorities, according to Wang.
Her products are clearly popular with foreigners — of the 20,000 accessories she has sold on Taobao, nearly half were bought by overseas customers.
The longterm plan is to build a bridge to help foreigners invest in China as overseas investors' interest in the mainland market has escalated following indexing giant MSCI's plan to include more than 200 "A" shares in its benchmark emerging markets index from mid-2018, and the kick-off of the milestone stock and bond connect schemes between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.
Lenovo is still the best-known Chinese brand among foreigners, followed by Huawei and the e-commerce conglomerate Alibaba, according to the 2016-2017 China National Image Global Survey published Friday.
The survey also featured foreigners' opinions on China's sci-tech innovation, with 59 percent of the respondents commending the country's ability to innovate.
Yu added that expanding beer sales abroad is a long-term task for Chinese companies, as beer was originally considered an exotic product, and it took time for foreigners to recognize the high quality of Chinese beers.
"Even though I am a foreigner, I have always dreamed of finding a way to learn, share and discover Chinese culture," Linden said.
Dajiuxing is a platform that provides assistance services to Chinese traveling overseas as well as foreigners in China.
There are very few staff who are foreigners, with more than 62 percent of our employees being technical specialists and engineers who serve customers directly.
Chapman has interfaced with his Chinese counterparts so successfully that in 2016 he was awarded the China National Friendship Award - China's most prestigious award for foreigners.
The episode by Foreigner Research Institute, or YChina, the shorter name by which Gal Or is now promoting his organization, got more than 10,000 thumb-ups after being posted on China's social media Weibo on September 14.
YChina aims to connect more and more foreigners with Chinese culture and enable more and more Chinese to understand "the young generation of foreigners in China," Gal Or told Xinhua.
A culture based on innovation"YChina is a platform that lets people better understand China through the eyes of the expats and foreigners living here.
We represent a new generation of foreigners who have decided that our future is China," said Gal Or, who is majoring in international relations at PKU.
Currently it has 15 people, including four foreigners.
He thinks China's innovation culture, especially among young people, can be an inspiration for foreigners as well.
"Foreigners are also involved in this .
Why call his company Foreigner Research Institute?
He noticed a gap between Chinese and foreigners' understanding of each other.
Gal Or says he has received hundreds of thousands of positive feedback and feels the company is on track to exert influence, especially making a difference in the way foreigners think about China and vice versa.
"We want to connect more common people and let them have a voice, let them express their ideas about China, and at the same time help China express itself better with foreigners," he said.
Sharing China's success storiesGal Or's plan is to continue his business in China after graduation and make YChina an influential media platform for foreigners to learn about China.
The third platform is Dajiuxing, an assistance service platform for Chinese traveling overseas as well as foreigners in China.
The number of overnight stays by Chinese tourists in Finland from January to July this year grew by 43 percent compared with last year, which is the fastest growth among all foreigners, according to Heli Mende, head of global sales promotion of Visit Finland, a tourism industry committee under Finpro.
"Actually, things are not easy, especially for me as a foreigner," she said.
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"China is becoming more and more friendly to foreigners setting up startups in the country.
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"StarTimes is not for foreigners.
Days have gone that top-tier hotels in China were primarily occupied by foreigners.
Chinese on-demand mobility giant Didi Chuxing announced Monday the launch of bilingual functions on its app in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to serve foreigners as part of the company's globalization strategy.
Earlier in the week, the UAE General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs said up to 265,698 Chinese tourists visited Dubai in the past five months since UAE began granting visa on arrival for Chinese citizens.
Foreigners applying to start a company in Beijing can now complete the entire registration process online through facial recognition, according to the city's market regulation authorities.
The new policy, which went into effect on Jan 18, is the latest move by the Chinese capital to streamline the procedures for obtaining business licenses by foreigners, notably reducing the registration time.
"The entire process for foreigners to get the business license used to take two to three months," said Liu Ruo of the market regulation bureau of Fengtai district.
At present, foreigners who come to China to engage in business, tourism and short-term exchanges still have a number of difficulties in obtaining basic financial services.
While Chinese people can use mobile phones to make payments on almost all occasions, foreigners are less accustomed to such practices.
Nansha will implement a 144-hour visa-free transit policy for foreigners and a visa-free policy for cruise travel, as part of the country's ongoing efforts to expand high-standard opening-up and promote the high-quality development of the GBA, according to the document, titled "The guideline for supporting the relaxation of market access and strengthening institutional reform for regulation in Guangzhou's Nansha".
The Central Economic Work Conference has called for efforts to expand high-level opening-up, including relaxing market access in telecommunications and healthcare sectors, making it easy for foreigners to do business, study and travel in China and solving problems related to cross-border flow of data.
Efforts will also be made to make it easier for foreigners to do business, study and travel in China, the official said.
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Policies facilitating cross-border data flow and favorable employment measures for foreigners introduced in the Lingang Special Area, where the Yangshan Special Comprehensive Bonded Zone is located, have been conducive to the development of the livestreaming base, said local authorities of Lingang Special Area.
It welcomes foreigners to come and do business.
This comes after China's Ministry of Finance released a notice to continue implementing preferential income tax policies for foreigners earlier this week.
Under this policy, certain allowances for foreigners are exempt from individual income tax, including housing allowances and children's education fees.
During the meeting, departments including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Development and Reform Commission conducted an in-depth interpretation of the guideline and responded to concerns raised by foreign investors, including facilitating visas for foreigners coming to China, enhancing services for foreign investment projects and reinforcing intellectual property protection in government procurement of pharmaceuticals and medical consumables.
The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China told Xinhua that the association has maintained close communication with personnel from the task forces, and received extensive support in the extension of preferential policies for foreigners to obtain subsidies.
The final list of foreigners' favorite Chinese brands was unveiled in Shanghai on Wednesday, also known as the China Brand Day.
Liu Bin, an IP lawyer from Beijing's Zhongwen Law Firm, said the increase in IP lawsuits involving overseas entities, especially those between foreign parties, demonstrates that China remains an attractive market for foreigners, and that they are optimistic about the country's economic potential and are willing to expand businesses here.
On Jan 1, 10 measures were officially implemented in Yiwu to improve the city's international business environment and foreign-related services, focusing on policy advice and convenience in the residence and work permit system for foreigners, among other areas.
In addition, 12.67 million certificates were issued for travel to and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, an increase of 837.7 percent, and 122,000 visas and residence permits were issued to foreigners, up 33.1 percent.
Experts suggest institution put more effort in talent training, legal researchLauding efforts made by the Beijing International Commercial Court in safeguarding a sound business environment since its establishment, legal experts suggested it could play an even bigger role in cultivating judicial talent and increase legal research involving foreigners or foreign countries.
DHL Express, a German express service provider, said China's optimized COVID-19 control policies will help facilitate the orderly resumption of China's entry and exit for both foreigners and Chinese citizens.
Besides, more than 80 percent of companies are "content" about China'sxa0proactive fiscal policies such as cutting taxes and administrative fees, favorable monetary and credit policies, optimized visa policies for foreigners coming to China, as well as a variety of measures to stabilize the supply chain and investment.
Support will also be offered to foreigners for their stay when they come to Zhejiang to invest, establish new businesses, conduct scientific research and engage in trade activities.
Zong said the area has implemented 35 cross-provincial services, such as accepting business registration and foreigner work permit applications from Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.
com, a platform aiming to provide foreigners with services related to investment, study, travel, work and living in China.
The regional authority has sped up administrative processes from months to mere days or even hours, and set up special administrative windows for foreigners to offer targeted and high-quality services.
"According to Liu, there are more than 30,000 foreigners currently working and living in Shenzhen.
A one-stop services center for foreigners working in the China (Hunan) Pilot Free Trade Zone was launched on Friday in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province.
It's so convenient in Changsha," said Russian expat Ilya Fokin, the first foreigner to use the one-stop services.
It also lifts limits on more than 10 vocational exams for foreigners to push for greater financial opening and free flow of talent.
It will also permit new fields of industry and services in which foreigners can invest.