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development / growth / to develop / to grow / to expand
HSK 3
to exploit (a resource); to open up (for development); to develop
HSK 3
military skill or technique (in former times) / all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development) / self-defense / tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage) / also called kungfu 功夫 / CL: 種|种
HSK 3
movement / motion / development / trend / dynamic (science)
HSK 5
depth / (of a speech etc) profundity / advanced stage of development
HSK 5
research and development / to develop
HSK 6
to be pregnant / to produce offspring / to nurture (a development, school of thought, artwork etc) / fig. replete with (culture etc)
HSK 7-9
to develop / to mature / growth / development / (sexually) mature
HSK 7-9
route / path traveled / distance traveled / course (of development)
HSK 7-9
depth (from front to rear) / depth (into a territory) / span (of time) / (fig.) depth (of deployment, progress, development etc)
HSK 7-9
abreast of modern developments / to keep up with the times / progressive / timely
HSK 7-9
first signs / development (of a situation)
HSK 7-9
to develop and promote / to carry forward / to bring to great height of development
HSK 7-9
daily renewal, monthly change (idiom) / every day sees new developments / rapid progress
HSK 7-9
to proceed in parallel / side by side (of two processes, developments, thoughts etc)
HSK 7-9
development zone
HSK 7-9
software development
abbr. for 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会, PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003
recent developments / current situation
to flow and change / development and change (of society)
(of watercourses) source and course / origin and development
hurried / at a great speed / rapid (development)
mileage (distance traveled) / course (of development)
TEDA (Tianjin Economic Development Area)
lightning speed / amazingly rapid / incredible pace of development
(software development) to do beta testing
cause and effects (idiom); entire process of development
swaddling clothes / fig. early stage of development / infancy
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to open (a door) / to open up (for development) / to dispel; to refute; to repudiate / (bound form) penetrating; incisive
to devote oneself to spiritual development (esp. Buddhism or Daoism) / to devote oneself to perfecting one's art or craft
momentum (the force exhibited by a moving body) / (fig.) momentum (capacity for progressive development)
intellectual development
evolution of sth over time / course of development / history
meandering and circuitous (idiom); complicated developments that never get anywhere / going around in circles
new housing development
start and development / thread (of a story) / general outline / clue
imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
Scientific Outlook on Development, a guiding principle for the CCP attributed to Hu Jintao 胡錦濤|胡锦涛, incorporated into the Constitution of the CCP in 2007
economic development
pilot test (in product development etc)
United Nations Development Program
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. for 住房和城鄉建設部|住房和城乡建设部)
Deng Xiaoping Theory / Dengism / the foundation of PRC economic development after the Cultural Revolution, building the capitalist economy within Chinese Communist Party control
historical development / background
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD / abbr. for 經濟合作與發展組織|经济合作与发展组织
PRC Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (MOHURD) (abbr. to 住建部)
Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
PRC National Development and Reform Commission
sustainable development
(Buddhism) Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, aka the Nirvana Sutra, of which two major Chinese translations are extant, influential in the development of East Asian Buddhism
Asian Development Bank
China Development Bank
PRC State Development and Planning Committee, set up 1998 to replace State Planning Committee 國家計劃委員會|国家计划委员会, replaced in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会
resort area; tourist zone (in China, typically state-designated for integrated tourism development)
developing / under development / in the pipeline
Development Research Center (PRC State Council institution)
meteor shower and violent thunderclaps (idiom); omens of violent development / portentous signs
PRC State Planning Committee, set up in 1952, replaced in 1998 by State Development and Planning Committee 國家發展計劃委員會|国家发展计划委员会 then in 2003 by National Development and Reform Commission 國家發展和改革委員會|国家发展和改革委员会
breakthrough / going beyond / leap-forward / unusual new development
puberty / period of development
the three core challenges of rural development in mainland China (agriculture 農業|农业, rural areas 農村|农村 and farmers 農民|农民), first identified as a policy focus in the 1990s
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) / abbr. to 經合組織|经合组织
every day sees new developments (idiom) / to make constant progress
residential area / housing development
yolk sac (ectodermal cells attaching fetus to uterus before the development of the placenta)
Faraday (name) / Michael Faraday (1791-1867), British experimental physicist prominent in the development of electricity
lit. the boot hits the floor (idiom) / fig. a much-anticipated, impactful development has finally occurred (an allusion to a joke from the 1950s in which a young man would take off a boot and throw it onto the floor, waking the old man sleeping downstairs who could then not get back to sleep until he had heard the second boot hit the floor)
(software development) to do closed beta (or internal beta) testing
PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003
Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), abbr. for 中華民國對外貿易發展協會|中华民国对外贸易发展协会
place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured to be a stage in the development of Chinese characters
concert held at a real estate development site to attract home buyers (Tw)
Jiansanjiang, large-scale agricultural development in Sanjiang river plain in Heilongjiang
meteor shower and violent thunderclaps (idiom); omens of violent development / portentous signs
Yangpu Economic Development Zone, Hainan
deep plowing / thorough penetration / thorough development (of a market segment etc)
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) / also written 經濟合作與發展組織|经济合作与发展组织
urban development project
development cycle / development period / also written 開發週期|开发周期
development cycle / development period
development bank
African Development Bank
lit. wind rises, tide bubbles up / turbulent times / violent development (idiom)
Hong Kong Trade Development Council


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