名词／形容词 + 化
-ise, -isation: to make or become X
Structure
（实现／推进／加快／越来越） 名词／形容词 化
What it means
化 (huà) after a noun or adjective means 'to make or become X' and also names the process, like English -ise / -isation: 现代化, 国际化, 老龄化.
How it is built
实现／推进／加快 or 越来越 + X化: 政府要加快推进农业现代化 (The government wants faster progress in modernising farming).
When to use it
The stuff of reports, plans and business news. One-character bases (美化, 简化, 优化) are ordinary verbs that take objects: 简化手续. Most two-character ones take no object.
Watch out
✗ 本土化产品 for 'localise the products' (it means 'localised products'). ✓ 把产品本土化 / 推进产品本土化. Not the set frame 化A为B (化险为夷).
Examples
出海并不是把国内那一套原样搬过去，产品、管理和营销都需要本土化。
Going global does not mean moving the way things are done at home abroad unchanged: products, management and marketing all need to be localised.
这家公司的管理层越来越年轻化，一半的经理不到四十岁。
The company’s management is getting younger and younger: half its managers are under forty.
政府提出，要加快推进农业现代化。
The government has called for faster progress in modernising farming.
Learn this in Lesson 69 · HSK 6: 中国品牌出海 (Chinese companies go global)
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