Mary's face wore a grim look.
玛丽脸上显出严厉的神情。
We can face some grim trade-offs.
我们会面临着一些严厉的权衡取舍。
Our plight is grim.
我们处境困难。
A core raw material for batteries, lithium faces a grim supply and demand situation, according to Zeng Yuqun, a member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
中国人民政治协商会议第十三届全国委员会委员曾毓群表示，锂是电池的核心原材料，面临着严峻的供需形势。
"Amid current complicated and grim economic situation and uncertainties… (We need to) press ahead with reforms to streamline the administration and delegate power, improve regulations, upgrade services and continue to foster a world-class business environment.
The application also showed that ByteDance has woken up to the grim fact that it might fail to withstand head-to-head confrontation with the United States government without support from Beijing, said Liu Chang, a senior engineer at the China Electronics Standardization Institute.
"Confronting a grim situation both at home and abroad, China will come up with more targeted measures to boost consumption, such as promoting new types of consumption and creating a better consumption environment," said Qian Fangli, director-general of the department of electronic commerce and informatization at the Ministry of Commerce.
PetroChina said the performance met profit forecasts, with major production indicators growing steadily despite the complex and grim situation of the global oil market affected by the gloomy economic outlook and sharp decline in oil prices.
Looking forward, Peng said the heaviest task for the CIC's domestic investment arm, Central Huijin Investment Ltd, is to fight a tough battle against financial risks, considering that the external economic situation is grim.
Li Chengdong, an independent e-commerce strategy analyst, said NetEase sold Kaola because its cross-border e-commerce unit incurred serious losses, along with a grim outlook.
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Some 35,652 foreign-funded businesses were established and foreign direct investment in the Chinese mainland hit an all-time high of 878 billion yuan (around $140 billion) last year against a grim global climate.
"Despite facing challenges from a complicated and grim external environment, lack of effective demand, overcapacity in some industries, weak expectations and other risks, the favorable conditions for China's economic development outweigh the headwinds," Liu said at a Friday news conference in Beijing.
Chang Ran, a senior researcher at the Zhixin Investment Research Institute, said the year-on-year decrease in China's exports in October widened 2.5 percentage points compared with September as stiff challenges remain in an economy facing a grim external environment and lackluster global demand.
Going forward, as the global economic outlook is still likely to remain grim, the company, as well as its peers, expect the government to roll out more targeted support, such as export tax rebates and loans at lower interest rates, to help reduce their costs and increase their competitiveness, he added.
Looking at the second half of the year, Ministry of Commerce official Li Xingqian said the situation is extremely grim, citing weak global demand for production, consumption and investment, and "decoupling" or "de-risking" moves from some countries.
Noting that the Chinese economy is facing new difficulties and challenges such as insufficient domestic demand and a grim and complex external environment, a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee called for efforts to actively expand domestic demand on Monday.
China's economy is facing new challenges, mainly arising from insufficient domestic demand, difficulties confronting some enterprises, risks and hidden dangers in key areas, as well as a grim and complex external environment, said a statement issued following the meeting.
Given China's export order trend and the PMI for the manufacturing sector of major economies worldwide, the outlook for exports remains grim.
China's economy is on the road to steady recovery amid pressures from a complicated and grim external environment and insufficient demand, highlighting the need for more policy support to stabilize expectations and spur market confidence, according to analysts.
Sun Xiao, a statistician at the NBS, said that industrial enterprises are facing difficulties amid a grim international environment and more efforts should be made to expand demand, shore up confidence and spur market vitality.
Sun Xiao, a statistician at the NBS, said while the latest data showed the continued recovery trend in industrial profits, industrial companies still face difficulties amid a complicated and grim international environment and insufficient demand.
A recently released industry report said the market generated revenue of 265.88 billion yuan ($38.85 billion), registering a 10.33 percent year-on-year decline amid a complicated and grim domestic and international situation, weakening market confidence and the pandemic.
Meanwhile, Wang warned of pressure from insufficient domestic demand, difficulties faced by small and medium-sized enterprises as well as a more complicated and grimmer external environment.
While facing a more complicated and grimmer external environment — as well as multiple pressures from shrinking demand, supply shocks and weakening expectations — Sheng, of the NBS, said that China's economy, characterized by strong resilience, tremendous potential, great vitality and long-term sustainability, will remain sound.
Despite facing a more complicated and grimmer external environment, as well as multiple pressures from shrinking demand, supply shocks and weakening expectations, China's economy, characterized by strong resilience, tremendous potential, great vitality and long-term sustainability, will remain sound, Sheng Laiyun, deputy head of the NBS, said on Tuesday.
Despite headwinds buffeting the global mergers and acquisitions market due to US Federal Reserve interest rate spikes and the grim medium-term outlook for the global economy, M&A recovery can still be expected this year, especially in China, as more long-term gains can be made at times of uncertainty, a report from Bain & Company, a global consulting firm, said on Wednesday.
Even though China is facing multiple pressures from shrinking demand, supply shocks, weakening expectations as well as a complicated and grim external environment, the country has the confidence, capabilities and conditions to achieve an overall recovery and improvement in its economic performance, said Yuan Da, director of the Department of National Economy at the National Development and Reform Commission.
In the face of a turbulent international political situation, grim global economic situation and battered multilateral trading system, what will the US, as the most important member of the WTO, say this time?
Despite mounting uncertainties and challenges, including a complicated and grim external environment, the fundamentals of the Chinese economy and its sound economic growth momentum in the long term remain unchanged, Guo said.
Given a more complicated and grimmer external environment and a cloudy global outlook, the National Development and Reform Commission said it will continuously implement stimulus policy measures, further expedite the financing of projects via policy-based and developmental financial instruments and speed up infrastructure construction.
Zhou from China Everbright Bank said boosting domestic demand remains a necessary strategy to cope with challenges from a more complicated and grimmer global environment, which will serve as a key driver boosting steady economic growth.
Citing risks from a more complicated and grimmer external environment, he highlighted the importance of boosting domestic demand and internal economic circulation, saying the government needs to increase support for lowincome groups, ease burdens on private enterprises and strongly boost the development of the digital economy and green economy.
Despite facing pressures from a more complicated and grimmer environment and COVID-19 outbreaks, China's economy has maintained the recovery trend in November, and the country has kept the overall economic operation within a reasonable range, the NBS said.
Released amid multiple pressures from COVID-19 outbreaks and a grimmer, more complicated international environment, the outline will help expand effective investment, spur consumption and foster the new development paradigm, experts said.
Zhao Qinghe, a senior statistician with the NBS, said China's factory activity shrank in November amid renewed COVID-19 outbreaks and a more complicated and grimmer international environment.
China's factory activity contracted at a steeper pace in November amid renewed COVID-19 outbreaks and a more complicated and grimmer international environment, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.
"However, the global situation is becoming more complex and grim, and the foundation for domestic economic recovery is not yet solid," Fu said, stressing the need to implement the country's pro-growth policies and effectively coordinate epidemic prevention and control with economic and social development.
The NBS said China's economy is facing pressures from a more complicated and grimmer environment, and the country will intensify its efforts to better implement the existing policies and effectively coordinate pandemic prevention and control with economic and social development in a scientific way.
Despite challenges and pressures from renewed COVID-19 outbreaks and a grim and complicated international situation, China has witnessed a steady rise in foreign direct investment, showcasing foreign investor confidence in the China market.
In the face of a more complicated and grimmer international environment, China is taking active moves to deal with the challenges ahead.
Profits at China's industrial firms shrank at a faster pace in the first nine months amid pressures from high costs and a grimmer, more complicated international situation, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
Zhu warned of difficulties and challenges such as high costs, a more complicated and grimmer international political and economic situation, saying more efforts will be made to fully implement the existing stimulus policy measures and consolidate the foundation for recovery in the industry.
They said China is playing an increasingly crucial and influential role in driving global economic recovery amid a gloomy global outlook and a more complicated and grimmer international environment, and the country's latest better-than-expected economic indicators suggest a steady rebound despite unexpected factors.
The current situation in the sector is grim.
Facing a more complicated and grim external environment, China needs to make more efforts to strengthen the foundation for recovery, the People's Bank of China, the nation's central bank, said in a statement on Friday.
China's economy has maintained its recovery trend in August despite facing pressures from a complicated and grim international environment, sporadic domestic COVID-19 cases and extreme weather, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
Despite pressures from renewed COVID-19 outbreaks and a complicated and grim international environment, experts said that the economy will likely bounce back in the second half of the year as a result of new stimulus measures taking effect and the gradual normalization of activity.
Despite facing headwinds and a complicated and grim environment both at home and abroad, China's economy will gradually stabilize quarter by quarter upon better control of the pandemic, they said.
China's economy maintained the trend of recovery in July despite disruptions from renewed COVID-19 outbreaks and a more complicated and grimmer international environment, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
Despite the recovery in industrial profits and improvement, Zhu warned of difficulties and pressures from rising costs and a more complicated and grimmer external environment.
China's economy is gradually recovering from a slowdown amid resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases and a complicated and grim international environment since March, with improvement in some indicators.
According to the ministry's research among businesses, China's trade faces increasing uncertainties in the second half of the year and the situation will remain complex and grim, ministry spokesperson Shu Jueting told a press conference.
Warning of a more complicated and grimmer international environment as well as difficulties and challenges faced by the Chinese economy, the NBS said the government needs to make a big push to step up macro adjustment and fully implement the recently announced 33 measures to stabilize the economy.
Profits at China's industrial firms shrank 8.5 percent year-on-year in April amid pressure from resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases and a more complicated and grimmer international environment, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
He dismissed the West's predictions of a grim Chinese economic outlook, adding that those predictions "are generally wrong.
Profits at China's industrial firms slowed for the first four months of the year amid pressures from resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases and a more complicated and grimmer international environment, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
The Chinese economy is facing increasing downward pressures due to a more complicated and grim external environment and the domestic resurgence of COVID-19 cases, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
They warned of multiple pressures from shrinking demand, supply shocks and weakening expectations amid resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases, as well as a more complicated and grimmer external environment, and said a stronger macro policy response was likely in order to stabilize expectations and shore up growth.
Pu said the steady expansion helped underpin China's macroeconomic fundamentals and signaled the economy's "strong resilience and potential" amid a complex and grim environment.
Despite facing mounting pressure from a resurgence in domestic COVID-19 cases and a complicated and grim external environment, they believe the country has plenty of policy tools to stabilize the overall economy, while the impact of outbreaks is likely to be temporary.
China's first-quarter GDP expanded 4.8 percent compared to a year ago amid pressures from a more complicated and grimmer international environment and a resurgent of COVID-19 cases, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday.
As COVID-19 continues to spread across the world, the situation in some parts of China is grim, and the global economy and supply chain have been influenced by this.
China is taking solid steps to accelerate the building of a unified domestic market that is efficient, rules-based, open and encourages fair competition amid headwinds and pressures from a complicated and grim external environment and resurgent domestic COVID-19 cases.
China's industrial profits increased at a faster pace in the first two months of the year despite pressures from a complicated and grim economic situation at home and abroad, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday.
China's industrial profits increased at a fast pace in the first two months of the year despite pressures from a complicated and grim economic situation at both home and abroad, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Sunday.
Facing a complicated and grim external environment, Bai said the main focus should be to stabilize exports, expand domestic demand and ensure stable supplies.
And the external environment is becoming increasingly complicated, grim and uncertain, the meeting said.
However, we must also see that the international environment is becoming more complicated and grim, and the impact of COVID-19 at home is still lingering," Fu said.
"Given the grim and complicated economic situations at home and abroad, the government should make a big push to ensure stable prices and supplies, strengthen the industrial and supply chains, effectively prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic, continuously boost technological innovation, effectively expand domestic demand, prepare to fend off risks and expand reforms and opening-up in key fields, Li said.
Xu said that in light of the complicated and grim economic situation both at home and abroad, SMEs now face new problems and difficulties, including soaring raw material prices, insufficient orders, rising labor costs, high logistical costs and power shortages.
The current US soybean exports to China have emerged from a grim situation following the US-initiated trade frictions, with the volume of US soybean exports to China this year expected to exceed that of the last, Zhang noted.
"Many nations have felt that the future looks rather grim, and this is particularly true for developing nations," Tourk commented.
Experts said the new document came as Pudong New Area, the reform and opening-up showpiece in Shanghai, has been tasked by the central government with the new mission amid the complicated and grim international situation, marking the country's latest step to further drive reform and opening-up, boost high-quality economic growth and foster the dual-circulation development pattern.
Despite data lags, Allen said it's "highly likely" that US services exports to China in 2020 saw a severe decline amid the COVID-19 pandemic, considering the grim situation in travel and education.
"Facing a complicated and grim international situation, China chooses to not shut its doors but open up wider to the outside, which will help inject new impetus to global economic recovery," Cui said.
"Last year, my family and I basically spent the holiday at home, considering the grim epidemic situation," Li said.
During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), SOEs have competently coped with complex and grim situations while their economic efficiency steadily improved, with annualized operating revenue, net profit and labor productivity up 5.6 percent, 8.9 percent and 7.8 percent, respectively during the period, according to SASAC.
It underlines accommodative policy, gradual withdrawal of fiscal supportEconomic activity will continue to accelerate in China next year on the back of existing supportive policies, despite a grim outlook for global growth due to the resurgence in novel coronavirus cases and lockdowns, economists said.
Despite a grim and complex economic situation both domestically and globally this year due to the novel coronavirus epidemic, China has not decelerated its efforts in promoting reform and development through opening-up.
Li said that after eight years of negotiations, the signing of the agreement has brought hope to people amid the current grim international situation, showing that multilateralism and free trade remain the correct direction for the world economy and human progress.
"Facing the grim and complex global situation, we need to further upgrade the growth model and economic structure, giving priority to the innovative development of foreign trade," Ren said.
"The grim situation is largely attributable to the inefficient demand worldwide," Gu said.
The market generated revenue of 265.88 billion yuan ($36.7 billion) with a 10.33 percent year-on-year decline amid a complicated and grim domestic and international situation, weakening market confidence and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an industry report released during the China Game Industry Annual Conference in February.
Despite the optimism, Zhang said the sector faces multiple challenges including grim international food security and shrinking profit margins, and called for greater efforts to develop industrial clusters to fuel future development.
Noting that the grim and complex international situation has added pressure on China's energy supply during winter peaks, NDRC spokesperson Meng Wei said the country can generally secure the natural gas supply for winter heating demands this year.
Zhu warned of difficulties and challenges such as high costs as well as a more complicated and grim international political and economic situation, saying more efforts should be made to fully implement existing stimulus policy measures and consolidate the foundation for industrial recovery.
She estimated that total retail sales of consumer goods, a vital consumption indicator, are expected to grow 6 to 7 percent this calendar year, given that a complex, grim and uncertain external environment and the pandemic might weigh on consumers' purchasing willingness.
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has created grim and complicated situations at home and abroad, new problems and challenges bedevil the development of various enterprises.
"The decision came as the country faces a grim and complicated economic situation both at home and abroad and is transitioning from a phase of rapid development to a new stage of high-quality development.
The situation for foreign trade and investment, however, is still grim as the worldwide spread of COVID-19, a severe global economic recession, and significant declines in international trade and investment as well as rising protectionism are all taken into account, said Ren Hongbin, assistant minister of commerce.
The situation for foreign trade and investment, however, is still grim as the global spread of COVID-19, a severe global economic recession, and significant declines in international trade and investment as well as rising protectionism are all taken into account, according to Ren Hongbin, assistant minister of Commerce.
Although the village may sound scenic, it was once a grim and messy place.
The grim conditions forced office landlords to focus on renewals with more attractive leasing strategies, which as a result, led to an overall rent decrease of 1.3 percent.
Compared to their big-name counterparts, smaller enterprises have limited financing channels, and their financial problems will be grimmer, according to Xie.
It said the performance was within expectations as major production indicators grew steadily despite the complex and grim situation of the global oil market affected by the gloomy economic outlook and sharp decline in oil prices.
Given a lackluster global economy, however, the shipbuilding industry still faces grim circumstances.
Given a lackluster global economy, however, the shipbuilding industry still faces grim circumstances, such as fierce competition and dropping profits, and Chinese companies are no exception.
"The volume of assets for trade will increase as some project holders respond to the grim financing environment,"said Winter Yan, associate director of Capital Markets and Investment Services at Colliers International.
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However, investors should be clear that there is grim competition ahead, and it is not an easy for businesses to enter the industry.
The joint venture's double-digit sales decline is grim, compared with a 27 percent year-on-year sales growth in China's passenger car market in the first half of 2021.
German chipmaker also painted a grim picture on Tuesday, saying it was battling extreme constraints in its markets and that inventories had hit all-time lows.