Volkswagen and its subsidiaries also intend to initiate pilot projects for clean energy and sequential charging services in Hainan.

大众汽车及其子公司还打算在海南启动清洁能源和顺序充电服务试点项目。

"Calvin McDonald, CEO of Lululemon, said, "In China, we experienced a significant sequential acceleration with revenue increased 79 percent in the first quarter.

Lululemon首席执行官Calvin McDonald表示：“在中国，我们经历了显著的连续加速，第一季度收入增长了79%。

After that, they infused autologous hematopoietic stem cells combined with sequential infusion of CAR T-cells.

之后，他们输注自体造血干细胞，并结合连续输注CAR T细胞。

"Specifically, our expansion in distribution network fueled a strong sequential growth, further demonstrating sustained user demand for our e-vapor product portfolio.

It said it expects significant sequential improvement in revenue in the second quarter as leisure demand accelerates in the run-up to the peak summer period.

Faber said the second quarter was the most challenging of the year and the back half of the year will show a sequential improvement in growth.

Its store traffic remained below the prior year level in May, and its efforts to revitalize retail have led to sequential improvements since stores reopened, said Adidas.

"We're seeing encouraging signs of increased consumption as outlets reopen, resulting in sequential improvement in China.

The impact of China’s tariffs — which Tesla has tried to mitigate with price increases — can already be seen in the 76.1 percent sequential decline in US EV shipments to China in the three months ended Aug 31, according to a report from Chris Rogers, director at Panjiva, S&P Global Market Intelligence.

It said the country's net exports contributed strongly to sequential growth in February and March as supply chains normalized and companies swiftly cleared backlog of orders.

Many high-frequency indicators have recently rebounded in sequential terms.

Lu Ting, Nomura's chief China economist, said, "As sequential GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2022 was much faster than we had expected, and as China's population seems to be reaching herd immunity quickly following the reopening in early December, we are raising our 2023 annual GDP growth forecast to 5.3 percent from 4.8 percent.

Fan Gang, president of China Development Institute, a Shenzhen-based think tank, said the most important strategy for society to pursue common prosperity is to insist on sequential and more equitable distribution to bring about and maintain a fair and stable society.

"Apart from the exports, the Oxford Economics said China's sequential import momentum also improved in August.

The first-half sequential decline in the value of M&A deals was due to fewer mega-deals sponsored by State-owned enterprises and the private sector, Liu said.

Yet, despite the sequential moderation in June from May, PMI prints were still solid in the second quarter, pointing to the resilience of China's economy, Lu said.

"Despite the sequential moderation in June from May, we believe PMI prints were still solid in the second quarter, pointing to the resilience of China's economy amid the recent, small-scale resurgence of COVID-19 in Guangdong province," said Lu Ting, Nomura's chief China economist.

On a sequential basis, the country's growth rate will peak between 6.5 percent and 7 percent on a seasonally adjusted annual rate basis in the second quarter of the year, with a more modest but sustained 5.5 percent to 6 percent SAAR in the second half of this year and next year.

""We expect robust sequential economic growth will resume after temporary weakness in Q1 (the first quarter) and are optimistic about exports and manufacturing investment," said the think tank, noting that consumption should "gain pace again as consumers become more comfortable with public health conditions and their economic situation.

The PMI decline reflects a weakening of the sequential growth momentum due to new COVID-19 cases and stricter government virus control measures, which include stricter social distancing rules, the reimposition of lockdown measures and travel bans in some parts of China, and nationwide initiatives to encourage migrant workers to stay in the cities of their workplaces for the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, said Lu Ting, chief China economist at Nomura Securities, a Japanese brokerage, in a research note.

"We expects (China's) household consumption to become a more important fuel for sequential growth momentum from this quarter onwards," said Wu.

"We expect household consumption to become a more important fuel for sequential growth momentum from this quarter onward.

Based on incoming high-frequency (monthly) data, the so-called GDPNow estimate of the Atlanta Federal Reserve puts third-quarter sequential real GDP growth in the USxa0at around 35 percent.

"The estimated 32 million tons are driven by higher sequential shipments from BHP, Rio Tinto, Fortescue and Vale, together with some other junior miners, among which Vale makes up 70 percent of the global shipment increase.

We expect China's sequential growth momentum to rebound in the first and second quarter, and maintain our 2020 GDP growth forecast at 6 percent," Wang said.

Feng said it had achieved positive cash flow from operating activities for the second sequential quarter.

"Looking ahead to the second quarter, we expect an even more challenging sales environment and anticipate overall sequential demand and deliveries to decrease as competition continues to accelerate and the general automobile market in China remains muted," Louis T. Hsieh, Nio's chief financial officer, said in a statement.

Research firm CINNO said demand for Apple iPhones has soared in China, with a 225 percent sequential growth in sales volume in the second quarter.

Timothy Moe, Asia-Pacific chief strategist at investment bank Goldman Sachs, said on Tuesday that the sequential improvement in China's fundamentals, low valuation of A shares at present and the typical seasonal tailwind in the fourth quarter will all support Chinese equities for the rest of the year.

This incorporates modest sequential improvements in the third and fourth quarters after the second quarter's sluggish outturn. "

Theoretically, each quarter should ideally see about 1.5 percent sequential growth in order to achieve a 5-percent annual growth target.

Kinger Lau, chief China equity strategist of Goldman Sachs, wrote to clients on Thursday that A-share companies would start to see sequential earnings growth in the third quarter alongside the rebound in economic momentum.

Therefore, from a sequential perspective, we do not expect much further credit growth slowdown.

"We estimate 1 percent average sequential (seasonally adjust annualized) US GDP growth in the first two quarters of 2020 versus 2 percent pre-virus," S&P Global said in a research report.

"Overall, we continue to expect sequential growth momentum to rebound in the first and second quarters and maintain our 2020 GDP growth forecast at 6 percent," Wang said.