Eric won the most
marginal seat by only two votes.
他只以两票的微弱优势当选。
The novel will only be of
marginal interest to the readers.
读者对这则小说不会很感兴趣。
"Equipped with automated facilities, the distribution centers are able to ensure reliability, scalability and potential for reduced marginal costs of our service networks in Southeast Asia," Chou said.
周说：“配送中心配备了自动化设施，能够确保东南亚服务网络的可靠性、可扩展性和降低边际成本的潜力。”。
In the 2022-2023 financial year, the proportion of companies reporting a significant or marginal increase in capital expenditure or investment has risen from 20 percent to 30 percent.
在2022-2023财年，报告资本支出或投资显著或边际增长的公司比例已从20%上升到30%。
Petronas aims to achieve annual LNG production capacity of 55 million tons by 2030, he said, even as it intensifies efforts to construct floating LNG facilities, primarily focusing on the development and liquefaction of marginal and stranded gas fields.
他说，马来西亚国家石油公司的目标是到2030年实现5500万吨的液化天然气年产能，尽管该公司加大了建造浮式液化天然气设施的力度，主要专注于边际气田和滞留气田的开发和液化。
Ren said in an internal article to its staff that with survival as the main principle, the company's marginal businesses will be shrunken and closed, and there is a need to let everyone at the company feel the chill, sources familiar with the matter told China Daily on Tuesday.
知情人士周二告诉《中国日报》，任在给员工的一篇内部文章中表示，以生存为主要原则，公司的边缘业务将萎缩和关闭，有必要让公司的每个人都感受到寒冷。
This will accelerate innovation, and the size of the change will drive down the marginal cost, compared to the rest of the world.
这将加速创新，与世界其他地区相比，变革的规模将降低边际成本。
Subsidiaries of the group have also made use of marginal waste heat as a heating source.
该集团的子公司也利用边际余热作为热源。
The Nov 11 shopping festival, its signature annual shopping gala since 2009, also recorded the most marginal growth in years.
自2009年以来，11月11日的购物节是其标志性的年度购物盛会，也创下了多年来最微弱的增长。
It is also marginal relative to Huawei's annual $11 billion procurement of US components.
We go step by step but other than becoming a marginal player everywhere, we want to be among the top players in the selected markets," said Arya.
"But cultural differences and diversity of languages across various markets will pose major challenges, as the company can no longer leverage the low marginal costs for aggressive expansion as it did in China," Wang said.
Chang joined a chorus of cheers on undertakings to create a level playing field for foreign investors, who have long been beset with ownership caps that essentially made them marginal players in one of the fastest-expanding financial systems on the planet.
On the import side, which went down 0.3 percent year-on-year to 17.99 trillion yuan in 2023, spokesman Lyu said that the marginal decrease was primarily driven by a decline in prices.
The export expansion in the services sector was countered by a decrease in demand for manufacturing exports, resulting in a persistent reduction in new export orders, Wang said, adding the overall employment continued a mild contraction for the third consecutive month despite a marginal increase in backlogs of orders.
The policy mix in the second half has proved effective, though its marginal utility is gradually fading.
According to Zou Lan, head of the People's Bank of China's monetary policy department, the country's real estate market has recently seen positive changes, with reviving housing market transaction activity in key cities and marginal improvements in home sales and market expectations.
However, the growth may be marginal, as the increased likelihood of interest rate hikes in the United States may mitigate the upward trend, he said.
However, due to the rapid decline in US inflation since the second quarter, some inflationary pressure has been released, and it may not be that obvious as the marginal support effect of excess savings on consumption is hedged by the decline in inflation.
"At best, there is hope for only a marginal few to be delisted, and that,too, only if a core US interest is involved.
Electronic products, another major category of exports, saw marginal fluctuations over the past months.
The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said in its first-quarter monetary policy report on Monday that it will keep abreast of any marginal changes in price levels and anchor social expectations, while ensuring prudent monetary policy to provide an appropriate amount of steady support.
Though marginal, it was only the third time that lead times have shortened since 2018.
Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the central bank and head of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, said during Friday's news conference that the extent of monetary policy tightening by the Fed this year is expected to ease, leading to a marginal weakening of the spillover effects.
He said the country will continuously expand employment and increase the household incomes, especially take-home pay levels of low-and middle-income earners with a high marginal propensity to consume.
Uncertainties in China-US relations influenced the confidence of some companies, but a "possible marginal improvement" in their bilateral ties is also expected.
That is, their marginal propensity to consume is higher than that of the high-income group.
Second, efforts should be made to increase the public's marginal propensity to consume by cutting interest rates.
The best way to increase the marginal propensity to consume in the short term is, in fact, by reducing interest rates, which frees up credit.
By raising incomes through distribution of money and lowering of interest rates, it is possible to increase the general public's marginal propensity to consume.
Therefore, to increase the public's marginal propensity to consume and to stabilize consumption, we should cut interest rates.
With marginal improvement of the internal and external environment emerging as a trend this month, and various economy-stabilizing policies producing further results, an upturn in the Chinese economy is likely in the fourth quarter, said Wen Bin, chief economist at China Minsheng Banking Corp.
The central bank is supportive of the healthy development of the real estate sector, and sales and lending in the sector have seen marginal improvement, Yi said.
The sales and lending of the real estate sector have seen marginal improvement recently, he said, adding that with ongoing urbanization in China, the housing market can hopefully achieve a soft landing.
The economy has continued the momentum toward recovery and growth that was seen in June, but marginal fluctuations remain and the foundation of economic recovery is not yet solid, according to the meeting.
The consumption recovery has been sluggish for four or five consecutive quarters, which will likely have a marginal impact on the economy.
"He cited the strong resilience, great potential and ample wiggle room of the Chinese economy, saying that it has already shown marginal improvement in May, with main indicators picking up.
Marginal profits of the equipment manufacturing sector reported a marked improvement compared with April, and better earnings were also reported among producers of consumer goods last month, Zhu said.
"With the COVID-19 impact wearing thin, major economic indicators showed marginal improvements in May," said Meng Wei, spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission, noting that the recovery on both the supply and demand side still faces many challenges.
The NBS said major indicators showed marginal improvement in May compared with the previous month, and the economy is regaining recovery momentum.
Wang Zhe, a senior economist at Caixin Insight Group, said both manufacturing and services sectors showed marginal improvement in May but still remain in contraction territory.
"Manufacturing sector activity showed a marginal improvement in May (compared to the previous month) but still remains in contraction territory," said Wang Zhe, senior economist at Caixin Insight Group.
The pickup of production indicators showed marginal improvement in supply.
China's exports will continue to demonstrate strong resilience in 2022 despite a marginal slowdown in the growth rate.
About 15 percent of respondents plan to reduce their operations in China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) for the next two years, and a marginal 5 percent felt very pessimistic about the business outlook, according to the report.
It sends a signal of marginal easing monetary policy, said Tang Jianwei, chief researcher at Bank of Communications' financial research center.
However marginal the rises may be, trading volumes at both Shanghai and Shenzhen bourses topped 1.1 trillion yuan ($172 billion) on Friday－the 16th consecutive trading day that the combined trading volume exceeded 1 trillion yuan.
Basic economics shows that lower-income groups have higher marginal propensity to consume, which means they are more willing to spend when their income rises than higher-income groups, highlighting the need for reducing income inequality.
The deceleration was mainly attributable to a marginal decline in new market orders, the first fall in 14 months, as some surveyed businesses said higher product prices have dampened customer demand, the report said.
China's housing market remained stable last month as home prices in 70 major cities saw marginal increases, the NBS said.
Historically, marginal changes in the Fed's policy may result in great fluctuations in the liquidity of the international market.
China's services sector maintained its strong expansion last month as offline activities like travel and dining revived despite the marginal resurgence in local COVID-19 cases, experts said on Thursday.
But if a really strong rebound appears and the inflation index rises rapidly, marginal tightening will be likely, Wang added.
Bilateral trade between China and Russia will see growth this year, despite a marginal decline last year, due to the strong synergy and solid fundamentals of the two sides, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday.
"In 2021, we should focus more on the monthly growth rate of GDP to monitor the marginal changes," Zhu said, adding that small firms and local governments may be the fragile areas that need consistent policy support.
But as the share of public savings in national savings falls, its marginal contribution to changes in national savings will become smaller and smaller.
"Because of the establishment of this lab, the first in the private sector to diagnose poultry diseases in Bangladesh, marginal farmers in the area are getting services from them, she said.
Because of rapid price declines, PV product exports totaled approximately $43 billion during this period, reflecting a marginal 2.4 percent year-on-year decrease.
CATL secured a market share of 36.9 percent, a marginal increase of 0.1 percentage point from the January-September period.
On Friday, Zou Lan, head of the monetary policy department at the People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, said at a news conference organized by the State Council Information Office that given the recent changes in supply and demand, there might still be some room, even if marginal, for optimizing the housing policies that were launched earlier to cool the overheated market.
Owing to the marginal improvement in the services sector, Caixin's composite PMI, which includes both manufacturing and services activity, improved to 48.3 in December from 47 in the previous month, the report said.
For instance, Shanghai reported a marginal increase of 0.4 percent in trading prices while home prices in Beijing were unchanged, while Guangzhou and Shenzhen in the southern Guangdong province, slid 0.6 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively.
But, unexpectedly, it also breathed life into the once marginal player, exemplified by the booming duty-free malls in Hainan.
According to the report, there is a law of increasing marginal utility between brand value and sales performance, which improves brand equity.
Therefore, the larger the sales scale of brand enterprises, the greater the marginal effect of the brand value.
New home prices in China grew at a steady pace in May, with pre-owned houses reporting marginal gains in sale prices, as measures to curb speculation and stabilize the market continued to take effect, experts said.
Marginal contraction in Feb business activity largely due to seasonal factorsThe services sector saw modest growth in China in February despite the marginal contraction in business transactions on a monthly basis amid renewed optimism about its long-term recovery, a private survey said on Wednesday.
Despite the active performance of the pre-owned home market so far this year, the secondary markets of Beijing and Shanghai have become extremely sophisticated, with transaction volumes remaining steady on a long-term basis, and trading prices staying stable with marginal growth, said Wang Yongqun, chief operating officer of Lianjia, a real estate brokerage firm.
"Home prices have remained largely stable with marginal growth.
Xu Xiaole, chief market analyst with Beike Real Estate Research Institute, said he does not anticipate a home price hike and said the marginal spike seen in major cities are part of market fluctuations due to the resilient demand and improved financing.
According to NBS data, new home and pre-owned home prices remained stable in 31 second-tier cities or saw slower growth rates for 16 months in a row, while 35 third-tier cities saw 17 consecutive months of unchanged prices or marginal declines in home prices.
Home prices remained unchanged or saw marginal declines in 35 third-tier cities during the same period.
Vale's decision to suspend iron ore mining at its Itabira complex in Brazil will have little effect on the Chinese and global iron ore market despite the marginal effect on the Brazilian market, analysts said.
"Flight tickets have low marginal costs.
Home prices in the nation's major cities reported marginal growth in January, data published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Monday.
Primary luxury apartment prices were largely flat, recording only a marginal decrease of -0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter.
A marginal improvement in Chinese demand in coming seasons may also see imports rise slightly.
Top 10 cities reported a marginal 0.01 percent dip in used home prices in the first half.
First-tier cities see pickup in demand despite marginal dip in commercial real estate salesReal estate prices showed signs of recovery in the Chinese mainland during February with new home prices edging up in first-tier cities, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Friday.
According to Jiang, PV modules will remain in oversupply this year globally as any further increase in EU demand is expected to be only marginal.
"Thanks to the MIP expiry, lower module costs now could lead to more subsidy-free and large commercial rooftop project demand but we expect this to have a marginal effect on our short-term EU demand forecast," said Jiang.
After all, Renault and Mitsubishi have been marginal players in China's vast auto market.
Leading economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin, author of The Third Industrial Revolution, has said that China will lead the process, which is about merging internet technology and renewable energies to create a new intelligent infrastructure that achieves high efficiency and productivity and near-zero marginal costs.
Electrified autonomous vehicles will revolutionize urban mobility by reducing travel costs by up to 40 percent and cut down CO2 marginal emissions to zero, a World Economic Forum (WEF) report said Tuesday.
Roland Berger said that, in the long run, AI technology will make personalized services available for more consumers and businesses, and it will be applied to more common scenarios without increasing marginal costs.
The marginal cost for various businesses will decline, or even reach zero.
If data are added to this production factor, it may change the future marginal return of each factor, which may eventually lead to changes in some basic characteristics of the production function.
The Shanghai Composite Index saw a marginal uptick of 0.53 percent to 2,770.98, although still lingering near lows unseen since April 2020.
Although China achieved its growth target in 2023, the weaker-than-expected marginal improvement in property investments and retail numbers in December have affected the outlook of investors.
Major macroeconomic indicators concerning consumption, investment and companies' profitability have shown marginal improvement.
Lin Yingqi, an analyst at China International Capital Corp, said that over the past few months, China's major economic indicators, including the purchasing managers index, profitability of industrial companies and inflation, have all shown signs of marginal recovery concerning the nation's endogenous growth momentum.
"Even marginal improvements in expectations would still give a significant boost to exchange rates," he said, adding that a pickup in lending figures for August has helped fuel a rally in the renminbi on Monday, when the onshore renminbi strengthened by 509 basis points to close at 7.2906 per dollar.
More time is needed to judge the sustainability of recent marginal improvements in economic data, Guan said, adding that authorities' approach to tackling economic shocks now is fundamentally different from the one they had adopted in 2008 during the Global Financial Crisis.
Several other categories still maintained relatively robust growth, despite a marginal dip in housing prices, reflecting an economic convalescence.
The PBOC said it will pay attention to any marginal changes in price levels and maintain stable social expectations of inflation, while ensuring its prudent monetary policy provides an appropriate aggregate amount of support at a steady pace.
"Low-income individuals, in general, have a higher marginal propensity to consume when their income levels improve, meaning that boosting their incomes can generate a considerable expansion in consumption," Gong said.
Although the inflation rate of developed economies is still rising, the marginal slope has also flattened significantly.
As monetary policies tighten worldwide, marginal positive results from China's monetary relaxation will be very limited.
After the hike, the interest rates on the main refinancing operations, the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will be lifted up to 2 percent, 2.25 percent and 1.5 percent respectively, with effect from Nov 2.
Major economic indicators have shown a marginal recovery in August.
Li said a marginal improvement in borrowing related to the real estate sector may have also contributed to September's credit rebound as home sales increased month-on-month while some real estate developers received special loans to ensure delivery of sold property projects.
International capital flows are expected to achieve marginal improvements due to domestic economic recovery and lower expectations for overseas central banks to hike rates.