从…转向…
to shift from A to B (direction, focus or system)
Structure
从 A 转向 B
What it means
'To shift from A to B': a change of direction, focus or system, where B is the new course.
How it is built
(Subject) + 从 A + 转向 B: 公司的重点已经从国内市场转向了海外市场 (the company's focus has shifted from the home market to markets abroad).
When to use it
Formal: policy, economics, business. Often with 逐步, 逐渐 or 开始. In speech people say 从A变成B.
Watch out
B is a new direction, focus or system; for a plain change of state or feeling, 变成 or 转为 fits better. 转 here is zhuǎn, but in 晕头转向 (to lose your bearings) it is read zhuàn.
Examples
九十年代，中国逐步从计划经济转向市场经济。
In the nineties China moved step by step from a planned economy to a market economy.
公司的重点已经从国内市场转向了海外市场。
The company’s focus has shifted from the home market to markets abroad.
Learn this in Lesson 84 · HSK 6–7: 九十年代 (The 1990s)
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