Xin Guobin, vice-minister of industry and information technology, said that the current COVID-19 outbreak has had a negative impact on the industrial sector, hampering logistics and industrial production in some places.

工业和信息化部副部长辛国斌表示，当前新冠肺炎疫情对工业部门产生了负面影响，阻碍了一些地方的物流和工业生产。

The problem, if not handled well, could hamper EV adoption in the future," he said.

Adam Lane, senior director of public affairs for Huawei Southern Africa, said cost and lack of needed regulations to support the new technology hamper 5G rollout in the region.

They added that the epidemic will not hamper prospects of the domestic pharmaceutical industry in the long term despite short-term fluctuations in share prices.

The US government's decision to add eight Chinese technology companies to its "Entity List" will hurt the interests of their suppliers in the United States and hamper global cooperation on artificial intelligence, analysts said on Tuesday.

This would hamper Hikvision's ability to do business as it is reliant on US components for its products.

Chances are low that China becomes the next shale gas superpower in the near future, and the cooling of the enthusiasm that foreign companies had for Chinese shale gas might also hamper the development, as expertise to access the immense shale deposits is also necessary, she said.

"She said the decrease in the working population and the aging problem would first pose a shock to the job market and then cause a series of social problems, including hampering economic and technological advancement and increasing the burden on the social security system.

"China is willing to step up cooperation with all countries in innovation, facilitate the deep integration of science and technology with the economy, promote the sharing of innovation results, and strive to remove barriers that hamper the flow of knowledge, technology, talent and other factors of innovation," Li said.

Economists and industry insiders said any intention of decoupling from China is clearly infeasible and against the historical currents, and attempts to do so would hamper the recovery of the world economy, which is suffering from high inflation and downside risks.

Resolving major problemsIn late March, the Central Committee of the CPC decided to launch a Party-wide campaign of in-depth research and study with the aim of identifying and resolving major problems that could hamper high-quality development and the country's modernization drive.

According to Knightley, the stress created by the SVB failure could make US banks more nervous about whom they lend to, and thus hamper US credit expansion and economic prospects.

All our experience was needed to prevent any potential risks like rock bursts or a collapse that would hamper progress," Wang said.

He also said that the conflict threatens to hamper progress on global warming and the preservation of nature.

Xi stressed efforts to intensify exchanges and cooperation on innovation, facilitate integration of science and technology with economic growth, increase sharing of the results of innovation, and remove all barriers that hamper the flow of knowledge, technology, talent and other factors of innovation.

Many woes, such as protectionism, market segmentation and inconsistent systems and standards, will all damage the efficiency of resource allocation, hamper full play of the advantages of market scale, and thus affect people's livelihoods and the nation's social and economic development.

"Such insufficient and ineffective means of ESG information disclosure will hamper investors to bring such information into full consideration, and has had an impact on efficient financial resource allocation.

Market and information barriers hampering industrial growth and the flow of innovation elements will be removed to catalyze the growth of key industries in Shenzhen and beyond.

"All are false claims that reflect the bad faith of the promoters of these allegations," the expert noted, adding that such allegations were concocted to hamper cooperation between China and other countries.

According to the circular, unreasonable restrictions such as local protectionism should be removed, as well as those hurdles hampering investment and business vitality.

While domestic demand has picked up thanks to a softening COVID-19 situation between late-September and mid-October, constraints from the supply side have become a prominent factor hampering growth.

Li Ke'aobo, deputy director of the Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking at Tsinghua University, said financing woes have always been the most prominent hurdle hampering the development of smaller and micro businesses, as they mostly lack sufficient collateral required for bank loans.

China's consumption further consolidated in the first half of this year as domestic demand firmed up while restrictions hampering travel and buying activities were gradually removed, which helped modify consumers' buying habits in the aftermath of the initial outbreaks of the COVID-19 epidemic, experts said.

He said that with the impact of the COVID-19 gradually tapering off, restrictions hampering offline consumption have mostly been removed.

"And to better formulate a vast domestic market, more efforts are needed to overhaul arbitrary regulations hampering consumer activities," he said.

In the long term, a global decline in FDI will hamper optimal allocation of resources and production factors, he added.

The annual tone-setting Central Economic Work Conference in late December highlighted the importance of technological innovations to solve major problems that hamper the nation's economic development.

Analysts from Nomura Securities wrote in a report released on Wednesday that the tightening of social distancing rules adopted by some local governments prior to the Lunar New Year holiday will hamper the pace of recovery in certain services sectors, such as catering, hotel and passenger transport.

"The high unemployment rate in the US has the potential to hamper economic recovery far beyond 2021.

"Rising capital expenditure will hamper major companies' cash flow, while mergers and acquisitions for business expansion and diversification will also reduce cash balances," said the report.

China's booming pet clinic industry is boosting demand for veterinary drugs, but a lack of supply and outdated regulations are hampering growth.

While such a trend may hamper the company's business growth in the short term, he said it also raises the standard of addressing more subtle sources of pollution that are much harder to tackle, and thus conducive for industry consolidation.

In a notice jointly released by nine government agencies including the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Finance, local authorities were told not to release any measures hampering the elimination of steel capacity that did not meet certain standards and the clean-up of "zombie" companies.

Underscoring that external pressures will only motivate China to forge a stronger domestic manufacturing industry, Zhang warned that the investigation might be just the start of a series of containment moves by the EU — and the United States — to hamper the development of the Chinese EV industry.

China's top automobile industry association has called on automakers to manage competition in a reasonable way to prevent excesses that may unnecessarily hamper a market recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and chip shortages.

But Waymo lacks investment from a major automaker, which analysts say could hamper efforts to grow its fleet.

However, low utility rates and difficulty making a profit remain the top concerns hampering the healthy development of charging infrastructure, experts said.

"The ban may hamper Huawei's short-term development, especially its overseas business.

CAAM said it does not recommend short-term incentive policies, which can exacerbate industry volatility and hamper the transformation and upgrading of the auto industry.

High operating costs could hamper sector's development, say analystsHigh operating costs could hamper plans by Chinese companies to launch autonomous taxi services, analysts said.

He said that the US is recovering its relatively unadvanced chip manufacturing industry at the expense of the efficiency and profits of multinational companies in the semiconductor field, adding that this move will also hamper innovation and development in the global semiconductor industry.

"The pandemic will never hamper our steps in construction or, more important, the synergism of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei province cluster," Zhang said.

According to him, the Swedish authorities should have known that if the ban continues, it will increase the costs of local telecom operators, slow down the rollout of 5G networks in the nation and hamper the interests of local consumers.

In the pre-robotics era, workers would undertake deep dives to build a cofferdam for such checks, which were relatively inefficient, time-consuming and tended to hamper electricity supply.

"The decision will increase the costs of telecom operators, slow down the rollout of 5G networks in Sweden and finally hamper the interests of local consumers," said Xiang Ligang, director-general of the Information Consumption Alliance, a telecom industry advocacy group, adding it won't be beneficial for cooperation in the global industrial chain.

Traditionally, workers had to dive into the water of the stilling basin or build a cofferdam for regular examination, which is very inefficient and time-consuming and could also hamper the hydropower station's daily production.

"Many people are currently stuck at home and in desperate need of information and communication technology infrastructure to support working from home and online education," said Wang, warning that the move against a major global ICT solutions provider such as Huawei will hinder the fight against the coronavirus and hamper digitalization.

This, in turn, could further hamper productivity and economic growth, lead to continued rises in labor costs and increase the risk of a wage-inflation spiral.

During the three-year COVID-19 pandemic, some have been suffering deteriorating balance sheets, hampering consumption recovery.

On the one hand, risk-averse market sentiment and strict risk-control regulatory approaches by market agencies－who mainly lead bond financing by private firms－greatly hamper their confidence in private firms.

Addressing the International Finance Forum (IFF) Spring Meetings for 2022 via a video link on Wednesday, Zhou Xiaochuan, former governor of the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, noted that currently, factors hampering global cooperation are greater now than in the past.

Continued tightening of supervision of vulnerable regional banks could hamper their loan growth in the next four to five quarters, Zhu said.

Wang Weiyi, chief analyst of finance and fintech at the research department of Ping An Securities, said problems on both supply and demand sides are hampering the development of the insurance industry.

Contrary to expectations, the novel coronavirus outbreak did not hamper capital flows into the Chinese capital market.

A more flexible exchange rate can avoid hampering the international usage of the yuan and keeping it away from the international currency group, said a report published by the China Finance 40 Forum over the weekend.

But there should not be too much capital in the market which will hamper the structural deleveraging," he said.

Money supply and credit growth in August weakenedFast deleveraging and gloomy credit demand may hamper the Chinese financial system's efficiency in funding the real economy, said analysts, and measures should be prepared to avoid market fluctuations.

Prudent monetary stance 'can help China deal with economic risks'Chinese policymakers need to be more vigilant and decisive while formulating monetary policy and keep it flexible to deal with uncertainties that could hamper economic growth in the coming months, economists said.

Steps were called for to focus on the prominent bottlenecks hampering NEV expansion in such areas, moderately advance the construction of charging facilities and upgrade methods of construction, operations and maintenance of the infrastructure.

Qin said that a lack of medical professionals is badly hampering the advancement of healthcare services in rural areas.