With over 300 million plays and 200,000 paid subscribers, the founder, Hu Tingting, started her career by singing a poem of legendary Chinese poet Li Bai, to lull her son to sleep three years ago.

- Homa Appliances struggled to find enough labor suits for the influx of workers, a rare occasion for a company that has long suffered from a paucity of returned workers after the Spring Festival production lull.

Erin Xin, an economist with HSBC, said the lull was largely due to the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday and tighter restrictions due to some domestic COVID-19 clusters this year.

Automotive manufacturers in Germany similarly "put a three-month lull behind them and are once again expecting more orders from abroad".

Industry back on rails after lull resulting from pandemic-related business pressureWu Jie, a 30-year-old office worker in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, recently resumed fitness activity at a local gym to help manage stress levels.

"Last year, despite a 70-day lull in production because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lamborghini achieved its second-best year in terms of sales and the best-ever year in terms of profitability.

Despite a 70-day lull in production because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Italian supercar maker Lamborghini achieved its second-best year in terms of sales and the best-ever year in terms of profitability in 2020.

It said the spillover weaker demand from 2018, the week-long Spring Festival holiday, which led to a lull in car sales, and some brands forcing dealers to stock up all played a part in the increased inventory.

China's vehicle market continued its downward spiral in February, as a result of the weeklong Spring Festival holiday that led to a lull in car sales and more importantly due to the spillover weaker demand from 2018, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said on Monday.

After an almost two-year lull in its product cycle, Ford Motor Co is poised to ratchet up its efforts in China, starting with locally produced new Focus and Escort models that will hit the market by the end of the year.

Smartphone makers are ramping up efforts to expand their presence in the burgeoning sector in a bid to revive a market mired in an innovation lull and a sales slump amid the global pandemic.

This nifty model is the smartphone market's attempt to shake off an innovation lull and bolster sales that have been sluggish due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Innovative handset options helping revive sector amid challenging conditionsSmartphone makers are pushing harder to expand their presence in foldable screens that could be used either as tablets or as pocket-sized phones in a bid to revive a market mired in an innovation lull and sales slump amid a global pandemic.