According to Song Hailiang, chairman of Energy China, this is the biggest outlay the company has made in all editions of the CIIE, and it represents a stark increase from the $67 million it spent in the first edition of the expo in 2018.

据中国能源集团董事长宋海亮表示，这是该公司在历届进博会上投入的最大资金，与2018年第一版进博会的6700万美元相比有了明显增长。

The company's adjusted net profit reached $21.3 million, a stark contrast to the $15.5 million net loss in the first half of 2020.

This convinced our board of directors that within the next 10 years, China will become our largest market," said Kjeld Stark, Danfoss China president.

"Just months after the IPCC's stark warning on the climate crisis, it's clear that big oil and gas companies still aren't listening," said Friends of the Earth Scotland climate campaigner Caroline Rance.

Looking back, Mak still marvels at the stark contrast between present day Shanghai and the one from the past.

"This is in stark contrast with the up to 30 percent energy utilization of thin-film solar technology, which only takes tenths of a millisecond to generate energy and doesn't produce any emissions," Li said.

Kjeld Stark, president of Danfoss China.

Danfoss has benefited from the increasing demand in infrastructure, food supply, energy efficiency, and climate-friendly solutions as the country's urbanization and green transformation goes on," said Kjeld Stark, president of Danfoss China.

Such growth is of great significance, according to Stark, given that the Chinese economy is slowing down in growth rate.

The Danish industrial giant looks to generate more than 5 billion yuan in sales revenue in 2017, and continue its investment in China, according to Stark.

"Innovation is in our DNA, and it is also one of the most important ways we are investing in the future," said Stark.

Notably, there are some highlights in economic operations this year, characterized by fluctuating recovery, deviations from traditional economic recovery patterns, notable economic disparities, and a stark contrast between macroeconomic and microeconomic perceptions.

Driven strongly by industrial investment, fixed-asset investment across the city surged 13.6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, a stark contrast with a slip of 1 percent throughout 2022.

Policymakers at Thursday's meeting said the nation must maintain its strategic orientation and remain unwavering in running its own affairs well as it faces some stark contradictions and problems in the economy.

In stark contrast to that, 41 percent of interviewed employers in Hong Kong, 47 percent in Japan, and 45 percent in Singapore plan pay increases of less than 3 percent.

"China's main attraction for foreign investment is its strong economic performance," Wang wrote in a recent opinion piece published on the Financial Times, noting that China's performance is in stark contrast to the rest of the world economy.

It is a stark reminder that the recovery is still affected by the pandemic, especially with the outbreak of the highly transmissible Delta variant.

Considering the stark differences in vaccine rollouts globally, multispeed recoveries are underway in all regions and across income groups, which makes the global recovery still uncertain, the report said.

"The stark contrast between the growth in exports to China and that to the rest of the United States' top trading partners in 2020 can largely be attributed to China's tariff exclusions and early economic recovery post-COVID-19," the USCBC said in the report.

That is "in stark contrast to the rest of the world where many countries are still struggling to bring the virus under control, let alone open up domestic or even international travel," the report added.

This is in stark contrast to earlier years, when the market would be shut for several days due to lack of customers, said Xia.

China's strong FDI was in stark contrast to the rest of the world.

This is in stark contrast to the area's current large amount of companies, well developed and efficient infrastructure and a growing number of universities with a lot of qualified young talent.

But in Bashang, the red card is a stark reminder that the 67-year-old's family and many other residents have been mired in extreme poverty for decades.

Laos has seen a boom in tourism during the first three months of 2023 as more than 831,000 foreign tourists visited the country, in stark contrast to the 211,898 overseas visitors in the first six months of 2022.

The robot's bulky "body" was in stark contrast to its refined handwriting abilities, which were all made possible thanks to the company's self-developed spatial 3D sensing and 5G zero-latency transmission technology.

This is in stark contrast with that of the previous year, when the sector was heavily impacted by the pandemic.

This is in stark contrast to Northeast China, whose residents accounted for the lowest proportion of the Chinese population, with their weighting falling by 1.2 percentage points from a decade ago.

The significant increases in the number and size of transactions are in stark contrast to a few years ago, when foreign investors often had trouble landing deals in China's major cities.

One of the stark truths was this: China's annual output of crude oil barely surpassed 120,000 tons in 1949, far from enough to meet domestic demand.

Those earnings mark a stark contrast with China's lower-than-expected box office market.

Such a performance marks a stark contrast with China's lower-than-expected box office market.

Merely 60,000 TEUs were transported by ocean-rail at the port of Shanghai in 2018, which is in stark contrast with the port's title of being the world's largest container port since 2010, and is far below its container operation volume of 42.01 million TEUs last year.

Some 70 percent of those surveyed by KPMG said they would rather lose their wallet than their phones－a stark contrast to any other country surveyed.

Apple has so far held back from any big moves in AI and even avoided mentioning the buzzword at its developer conference in June - in stark contrast to other tech giants such as Alphabet and Microsoft which have made bold moves to incorporate the breakthrough technology.

A stark contrast was FAW Group's Hongqi which overtook Cadillac, selling 310,000 vehicles in 2022, up 3 percent.

Car owners of even more luxurious brands are apparently younger in China as well, a stark contrast to silver-haired owners in other major markets.

BYD to consolidate top positionWarren Buffett-backed BYD saw a meteoritic rise in 2022, a stark contrast to a legion of carmakers who would congratulate themselves on not losing too many consumers.

Rudolf Stark, executive vice-president of ZF's Passive Safety Systems Division, said that occupant safety is a fundamental technology for road safety.

The carmaker's China performance was a stark contrast to other parts of the world.

In stark contrast, China's passenger car market witnessed a slump of more than 15 percent in the first five months from the same period last year.

But last week, the British government received a stark warning from the country’s largest car manufacturer.

Their fast growth, which LMC believes will continue for quite a while, is in stark contrast to other segments, such as sedans, multipurpose vehicles and minivans, whose sales fell, ranging from 3.2 percent to 25.3 percent, in the same period in China.

New energy vehicles stood as a stark contrast to gasoline ones.

"Continental is a technological leader in the field of electric mobility", said Rudolf Stark, a senior executive at the company's powertrain division.

The contrast is stark, and it is remarkable how quickly we've come so far.

This is in stark contrast to the often seen image of steelworkers toiling away in mills amid difficult conditions.

That marks a stark contrast to the image of workers toiling away in steel mills with sweat pouring down their faces.

In stark contrast, China introduced a series of measures in 2018 to impose liquidity requirements on all types of commercial banks.

On the opening day of the 2022 Hong Kong Fintech Week, which was held from Oct 31 to Nov 4, the city announced a new regulation aimed at easing restrictions on digital assets — in stark contrast to the mainland's approach to cryptocurrencies.

The decline in IPO gross proceeds was "even more stark" in the first six months, as total financing plummeted by 96 percent year-on-year to a mere $9 billion, said FactSet.

The decline of the stock market in the past few months is a stark reminder of troubled times ahead.

According to an annual research report of the People's Bank of China or PBOC, the central bank, Chinese consumers' average score on the financial literacy index was 63.71, a medium-high level, but there were stark regional differences.

That is in stark contrast with earlier fears - largely from the West - that China would channel money through AIIB to its "friends" over its "rivals", experts noted.

This year, the yuan has gained against the dollar by more than 4 percent as of Wednesday, a stark contrast to around the 6.5-percent depreciation last year.

"In stark contrast to Western economies, virtually all Chinese debt is domestically financed and provided by local banks," said Luc Froehlich, Head of Investment Directing at the Asian Fixed Income division of Fidelity International, an investment firm.

Since the second half of 2014, China had seen net capital outflows and its foreign exchange reserves fall, in stark contrast with the continual growth of reserves for many years.