Noting online distribution has become a major industrial trend in China, Duplaix said Kering's team in China has been authorized to tweak its sales strategy to suit local market dynamics.

Duplaix指出，在线分销已成为中国的一大产业趋势，他表示，开云在中国的团队已被授权调整其销售战略，以适应当地市场的动态。

For instance, data and analytics helped tweak designs for Belle, whose 12,000 pairs of macaron-colored lace-up leather shoes, a co-creation with Alibaba, were snapped up in days during a midyear sales event.

Believing that global energy demand is projected to increase by 25 percent with China and the Asia-Pacific region driving much of that growth, ExxonMobil's Shanghai Technology Center, the third-largest facility in ExxonMobil Chemical's global technology network in addition to the European Technology Centre at Machelen, Belgium, and another in the US, is expanding, adding new test beds and processing halls to tweak and improve the oils, polymers and other products, which underpin the region's economic expansion.

Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the China Passenger Car Association, agreed that a number of things influenced a luxury car buyer's choice, and automakers were trying to leverage the 1 percent VAT reduction as an opportunity to tweak their prices.

"A tweak of magnitude in monetary policy, if any, is likely to take place in a gradual, moderate manner this year," Peng said, adding that many businesses, especially in the services sector, have been hit particularly hard in the outbreak and need more time to recover.

Zhu said maintaining the prudent monetary policy does not mean the central bank cannot tweak its policies, which will be fine-tuned to make them more forward-looking, flexible and targeted when changes in the situation arise.

The improvement also comes on the heels of a tweak to the formula used to calculate the renminbi central parity rate, announced last Friday by China Foreign Exchange Trade System.