While wearing a mask in this new norm might pose just a slight inconvenience to most people, this new practice has inadvertently created another hurdle for hearing impaired people like Cai Zhengjun, who runs a design studio in Shanghai that helps imbue self-confidence in their hearing-impaired staff while honing their creative skills.

com has removed another major hurdle for its development by obtaining a third-party payment license.

But when it comes to overseas markets, the task of making the brand better known has been the 8-year-old company's biggest hurdle, said Jiang.

About 45 percent of surveyed companies said maintaining the ability to continuously innovate is their biggest challenge, while 43 percent said the main hurdle lies in how to balance and solve a series of problems that come along with rapid development.

"The biggest hurdle is that people don't believe meat made from plants tastes good.

Once we get over that hurdle and have people try the product, a lot of them become repeat customers," he said.

As long as this hurdle is removed, education resources will be accessible to a larger audience.

"Its exploration and production EBIT may be positive in the second half of this year as oil prices could exceed the company's upstream break-even hurdle of $69-70 a barrel," she said.

"No hurdle seems to have been too high for the builders.

I could see the wall stretch seemingly endlessly in both directions, up and down hills and mountains, and no hurdle seems to have been too high for the builders.

Saturday's news clears one hurdle for the insurer and boosts the probability of the deal being completed, but both companies still need signoff from state regulators, including overseers in Delaware, according to Sean Dargan, an analyst at Wells Fargo & Co. Bloomberg contributed to the story.

At present, there is no technological difficulty in applying logistics drones for commercial use, Zheng said, pointing out that the main hurdle for their wide application remains on the institutional side.

Dow Chemical Co's bid to merge with DuPont Co cleared its biggest hurdle last week when it won EU approval with hefty concessions.

The ChemChina-Syngenta deal was cleared by a US national security panel last August, removing what had been seen as the biggest hurdle to the deal.

Zhang tackled this hurdle by organizing numerous tasting events, gradually winning over more Chinese consumers by fostering an appreciation for Georgian wine.

For example, Africa is plagued with inadequate transportation infrastructure, which has been a major economic hurdle to its advancement of industries and exports.

Zhu Min, vice-chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, told a forum on Thursday that the rebound of consumption and the property sector was weaker than anticipated, pointing to a major structural hurdle that must be overcome.

To be sure, challenges remain, but a major hurdle for bilateral economic ties has been removed, with the safe return of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co, to China from Canada several weeks ago, they said.

Wang said Meng's return to China removed a major hurdle between China and Canada, but that does not mean bilateral ties will improve automatically.

For example, a big hurdle for wind power is that it is subject to weather conditions and some power generated may be lost.

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.

"Heading into 2021, the first hurdle will be Jan. 5 runoff elections in Georgia," Benedict said.

"After that hurdle, the market will look to see how the vaccine is taking hold and whether or not the world and especially the US can get back to the 'new normal,'" Benedict said, noting "it may not go as smooth as everybody thinks.

"With no previous experience to fall back on, finding a way to build a modern city was the biggest hurdle to overcome in the early stages of Pudong's development.

In particular, inbound logistics are a major hurdle due to geographically concentrated production, limited airfreight capacity and lack of inbound quality checks, according to a recent white paper published by DHL and McKinsey & Company.

Another hurdle is the fact that Chinese patients are accustomed to seeing a doctor in a hospital, especially a doctor with a good reputation in a big hospital, and it is difficult to change people's mindset, according to Zhao Heng, the founder of consulting company Latitude Health.

The resulting supply chain bottlenecks will be a fixed hurdle for developing better foundation models (large language models like OpenAI's GPT).

"For us, safety is not a marketing exercise or another regulatory hurdle to clear.

Local production will further reduce the cost of fuel cell vehicles, which Lu believes is the biggest hurdle for the sector's development.

He said charging speed is another hurdle in the sector's development, and the authorities should make a nationwide plan and increase investment to solve the problem.

Consumer worries about the risk of explosions are also a big hurdle and residents in Japan and South Korea have protested against the construction of hydrogen stations.

The car, CHJ says, should help eliminate range anxiety, a key hurdle to widespread sales of battery electric vehicles.

Guo Gang, dean of the faculty of automotive engineering school at Chongqing University, saw the hurdle for the local sectors' leap toward smart production as described in Industry 4.0 literature.

Given the low entry hurdle and easiness of setting business to cross border e- commerce, she suggested Canadian brands use the platform like Tmall global as a first entry to China's market.

all vie for dollops of tech curryGeographically, China and India may be separated by the mighty Himalayas, but two-way capital flows and investments between the two massive Asian economies seem to have found a super highway above the Mount Everest, as if to clear every conceivable hurdle.

Fu Liang, an independent analyst who has been following the telecom industry for more than a decade, said a key hurdle in 5G adoption was the price of 5G smartphones and data packages, along with the 5G support network.

The strong banking sector has also enabled capital accumulation at a rapid pace, addressing the shortage in funds, which used to be a key hurdle facing the Chinese economy.

But the Chinese government has already moved to reform and improve pricing and secondary market liquidity of government and policy bank bonds, which used to be a major hurdle for international investors.

As the stock connects between the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong are among the major investment channels for overseas investors, the currently smaller daily transaction limit might be one hurdle for foreign capital inflows.

China is unlikely to hike its benchmark interest rate as the high debt level is still the key hurdle, and the use of money market rates could serve the purpose of battling leverage better," said Tommy Xie Dongming, an economist at OCBC Bank.