This old man can not see.He is
blind.
这位老人看不见，他是个瞎子。
People tend to be
blind to the beauty around them.
人们往往对周围的美视而不见。
He lived in a time when the
blind couldn't get much education.
他生活在盲人受不了多少教育的时代。
In addition to licensed collections, the store also provides blind box collectibles, toys, plushes, fragrances, accessories, makeup tools, snacks and electronics as well as gifts and stationery.
除了特许收藏外，该店还提供盲盒收藏品、玩具、配饰、化妆工具、零食和电子产品以及礼品和文具。
The guideline stressed that central SOEs should curb the blind development of low-level projects with high energy consumption and high emissions.
《指导意见》强调，中央国有企业要遏制高耗能、高排放的低水平项目盲目发展。
Compared with Hong Kong-listed toy brand Pop Mart, which mainly sells trendy toys packaged randomly in boxes, Top Toy offers toys in eight main categories, including building blocks, garage kits, sculptures and blind boxes containing cartoon figurines.
与香港玩具品牌Pop Mart主要销售随机包装在盒子中的时尚玩具相比，Top toy提供八个主要类别的玩具，包括积木、车库工具包、雕塑和包含卡通小雕像的盲盒。
China Evergrande's experience suggests real estate developers should keep their debt at a manageable level and avoid blind diversification, as a stable and strength-focused corporate strategy is more reliable, Chen said, adding that, "How to effectively prevent financial risk in real estate means a lot to the financial system of the real estate industry.
陈表示，中国恒大的经验表明，房地产开发商应将债务保持在可控水平，避免盲目多元化，因为稳定和注重实力的企业战略更可靠。他补充道，“如何有效防范房地产金融风险对房地产行业的金融体系意义重大。
Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical launched innovative and customized products such as surname cans and blind box cans, further strengthening its leading position in the RTD Asian herbal tea segment, according to Mintel's report.
据英敏特报道，广州白云山药业推出了姓氏罐和盲盒罐等创新定制产品，进一步巩固了其在RTD亚洲凉茶领域的领先地位。
"Our latest product has no blind areas, while manual forklifts and forklift AGVs have a blind area of around 25 and 40 percent respectively.
“我们的最新产品没有盲区，而手动叉车和叉车AGV的盲区分别约为25%和40%。
This marks the country as one of the highest with blind and visually impaired patients in the world.
这标志着该国成为世界上盲人和视障患者最多的国家之一。
Collectible toymaker sees sharp increase in international businessEarlier this year, POP MART, a leading collectible toymaker that introduced the concept of blind box toys, opened its first store in London where it showed off its top intellectual properties, which included Skullpanda, Dimoo and Pucky, as well as its Space Molly character.
收藏玩具制造商的国际业务急剧增长今年早些时候，引入盲盒玩具概念的领先收藏玩具制造商POP MART在伦敦开设了第一家商店，展示了其顶级知识产权，包括Skullpanda、Dimoo和Pucky，以及Space Molly角色。
"In addition to art toys, other categories of collectible toys, such as assembled models and animation statues, all have promising market prospects," she said, adding blind boxes have emerged as one of the most popular categories, occupying a big market share in China's domestic market.
她说：“除了艺术玩具，其他类别的收藏品玩具，如组装模型和动画雕像，都有很好的市场前景。”她补充说，盲盒已经成为最受欢迎的类别之一，在中国国内市场占据了很大的市场份额。
For blind boxes, buyers will be able to choose the series of a group of figurines, but don't know what they will get until after the purchase, thus adding to the thrill of purchasing.
对于盲盒，买家可以选择一组小雕像的系列，但直到购买后才知道会得到什么，从而增加了购买的刺激。
The recent collaboration between the world's leading chicken restaurant chain KFC and top domestic blind box producer and toymaker Pop Mart has created a frenzy on the internet, with consumers sharing photos or videos of dozens of fried chicken "family buckets" in exchange for toys.
全球领先的鸡肉连锁餐厅肯德基与国内顶级盲盒生产商和玩具制造商Pop Mart最近的合作在互联网上掀起了一股热潮，消费者分享了数十个炸鸡“家庭水桶”的照片或视频，以换取玩具。
This month, the company has lined up with Beijing Chaoyang Park to develop a theme resort as part of its efforts in businesses apart from blind box toy and IP licensing.
本月，该公司与北京朝阳公园合作开发了一个主题度假区，作为其在盲盒玩具和知识产权授权之外的业务努力的一部分。
They attributed Evergrande's risk to its mismanagement and blind expansion in diverse directions, noting that most property firms in China are focusing on and properly managing their main lines of business.
他们将恒大的风险归因于其管理不善和向多个方向盲目扩张，并指出中国大多数房地产公司都专注于并妥善管理其主要业务。
More than 120 international beer experts awarded 213 beers with gold, silver and bronze during a two-day blind tasting, according to the official European Beer Star website.
据欧洲啤酒之星官方网站报道，在为期两天的盲品品尝中，120多名国际啤酒专家为213款啤酒颁发了金、银、铜三项大奖。
Compared with Hong Kong-listed pop toy brand Pop Mart, which mainly sells trendy toys packaged randomly in blind boxes, 52Toys offers toys in various categories such as building blocks, garage kits, sculptures and blind boxes containing cartoon figurines.
But as the camera is blind between each frame, each of the snapshot images contains no information about the motion of elements in the scene and generating unhelpful data, he said.
Compared with Hong Kong-listed pop toy brand Pop Mart, which mainly sells trendy toys packaged randomly in boxes, Top Toy offers toys in eight main categories such as building blocks, garage kits, sculptures and blind boxes containing cartoon figurines.
China's blind boxes have been exported to the United States, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia and some other countries.
For blind boxes or mystery boxes, buyers will be able to choose the series of a group of figurines, but don't know what they will exactly get until after purchase, thus adding to the fun of purchasing.
Last year, online sales revenue of blind boxes in China surged more than 400 percent on a yearly basis, according to a research report by consultancy CBNData.
To meet the demands of the rising millennial and the generation Z, the company integrated the "blind boxes" element － the recently popular play method created by Chinese toy maker Pop Mart － into its snacks.
Pop Mart's trendy toys gain popularity among the world's young female consumersEven till the end of September 2019, Beijing-headquartered Pop Mart, a company that makes trendy toys packaged randomly in what are called blind boxes or mystery boxes, hardly had any cross-border e-commerce presence.
That is surprising because the retail format of selling toys packed in blind boxes actually started in Japan.
An unidentified loyal collector of Pop Mart's toys told Forbes magazine: "Blind boxes are so much different from what I have seen in the past.
"According to CBNData's report on the 2020 cross-border export consumption trend, online spending on blind boxes of various Chinese toy brands saw an explosive growth of more than 400 percent last year, with sales seen in more than 120 countries and regions.
"If he bans WeChat, it'd be like he makes us Chinese Americans blind and dumb.
The senior executive added that if Huawei is excluded, "we will not be able to quickly eliminate 5G signal blind spots".
Phyllis Cheung, CEO of McDonald's China, introduced the new product ,which took nearly one year and a half to conduct research, menu development and taste testing and finally, a blind test participated by more than 600 people to arrive at the final decision to roll it out.
The champion in terms of revenue was Pop Mart, a Beijing-based lifestyle retailer, which in nine seconds sold 55,000 toys in mini blind boxes－small, sealed packages containing collectible toys that are part of a series.
The satellite has "a wide scope of coverage, strong communication capability and no blind zone for services", according to SASAC.
"My new definition of weirdness is whatever lies within your blind zone of knowledge.
Of those, over 12 million are blind and partially sighted and more than 20 million hearing impaired.
Huang is best known for his cinema and television roles in films and series such as Blind Massage (2014), The Legend of Mi Yue (2015), The Interpreter (2016) and Extraordinary Mission (2017).
Blind investment and bad administrative decisions leading to heavy financial losses will be headed off in a timely manner and strictly punished, according to the SASAC.
On the one hand, they have a broad mindset, but on the other hand, they lack a comprehensive understanding of the industry and the job, rendering their search choices blind and scattershot," she added.
For example, the Haikou International Duty-Free Shopping Complex organized a classic hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing) parade, a dance flash mob, a blind box lottery and fun games.
Yet some observers in the West are "selectively blind" to these numbers, but are "clear-eyed" about certain fluctuations.
"By clarifying the political responsibility for inspection rectification, gathering strength, and ensuring that no blind spots are left in inspection rectification, the next step will continue to use daily inspections, special inspections and other methods to urge relevant departments and units to plug loopholes in systems, promote both symptomatic treatment and address root causes, standardize management, and expand the effectiveness of inspection rectification.
"We took grid management as the basic principle in governing the 48 natural villages under the township and established a six-level management system based on the administrative units to ensure full coverage of the grids, unimpeded communication and minimum blind spots in management with seamless services.
Also, the rising popularity of blind boxes, which are sold without the customer knowing the contents until they buy it, has led to some stationery merchants selling their own blind boxes.
The State Administration for Market Regulation also stipulated in August that businesses shall not sell blind boxes to children under the age of eight.
That said, the blind application of Western models will not necessarily achieve the desired results.
Addressing a news conference in Beijing, the official stressed that central SOEs must put an end to blind expansion.
Several guidelines regarding antimonopoly, online marketing algorithms and blind box sales would also be formulated and executed.
Chinese enterprises' high leverage ratios can be largely attributed to their blind expansion, and sometimes related to overly loose monetary policies.
Internet dating essentially provides blind dating services, as those seeking a spouse account for about 73.8 percent of all users.
The report shows that 56.4 percent of users prefer to use livestreaming on blind dates, followed by 43.9 percent choosing voice messages combined with texts, and 39.2 percent in favor of sharing short videos.
Bay areas, like the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, should undertake more tasks to improve their industrial structures and reduce repetitive construction and blind competition, Wang said at the blue book's launch ceremony.
According to a report from JD Big Data Research Institute, art toys with cultural intellectual property rights are gaining traction among China's Gen Z, as sales of garage kits, Lego blocks and blind boxes on JD's online marketplaces surged 618, 375 and 235 percent respectively in 2020, compared with the same period in 2019.
The meeting urged a faster rollout of an action plan for the nation to achieve peak carbon emissions by 2030, with measures to curb the blind development of projects with high levels of emissions and energy consumption.
The IP watchdog also released policies this year, including ending all patent subsidies and cracking down on improper behavior, to correct the blind pursuit of patent quantity.
A craze for "blind box" toys has fixated China's Generation Z population on the sublime joys of surprises associated with treasure hunting.
The market for "blind boxes "could grow to 25 billion yuan in 2025 from just 3 billion yuan in 2019, according to consultancy Qianzhan Intelligence.
Blind boxes, in terms of how they reach the consumers, are an innovation.
Digging deeper into the issue, you will learn the very marketing of blind boxes is called probabilistic selling.
That is to say, even after making the payment for a blind box, the buyer still has no idea what will be the contents inside.
Blind boxes are not exactly an addiction, but represent a harmless, or manageable rush of adrenaline for some, especially Generation Z, a consumer group defined in popular online reference material as "a demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha", born in the period from mid-to late-1990s to early 2010s.
Why are blind boxes so popular among Gen Z?
Therefore, the pursuit of consumption that can also pack in surprise and joy leads them to products and concepts like blind boxes.
Gen Z are willing to pay for such experiences as evidenced from Pop Mart blind boxes' runaway success in the marketplace.
Companies should study the characteristics of target consumers, risks of utilizing such a mode, and then determine whether or not to use blind boxes to market their products in order to boost sales.
There is a bit of a scientific approach developing to determine where blind boxes can be introduced.
The blind box marketing model can be applied to different scenarios.
More and more snack makers are launching their products in blind boxes.
After consumers register for a blind box service, they will receive a box of snacks each month, like potato chips, nuts, dry fruits, without having any idea what they might receive in the box.
Similarly, travel agencies can put forward blind box arrangements for group travelers; air carriers can launch blind boxes for seats in different classes; even cinemas can sell tickets in blind boxes, where moviegoers will only know the name of the flick they are about to watch only after they are seated in front of the screen.
Marketing mavens vouch that blind boxes offer many advantages.
For enterprises, blind box marketing can help them to navigate the market and discover its contours and characteristics.
Ever since, it has been exploring and upgrading the products through blind box marketing, finding the most popular items, to figure out product packages that suit the company's sales strategies and make the company more and more welcomed by the market.
Second, blind boxes can help companies better plan production and manage inventory.
However, gathering feedback from blind box sales can give companies insights into styles that are more popular, and can function as a compass in adjusting production plans.
First, blind box sellers should not hold the surprise tricks as a way to fool consumers, nor indiscriminately include products in blind boxes.
It's still the value of the products in the blind boxes that will define the price.
Also, the knowledge of how to plan blind box combinations and how to sell them is critical.
Blind box is just a marketing method, and cannot become a symbol of the brand, because it is easy to be duplicated.
The products and services provided behind the blind boxes are the key.
Supported by such fancy designer product, and the blind box marketing, the company is able to reap juicy awards.
Once the wave of blind boxes subsides, a company without good products may never be able to catch the next wave.
Even Sunac, a real estate giant, launched its blind box products.
Last but not least, a word of caution for enterprises and investors: Blind box is like a box of chocolate, you will never know what you are going to get.
Grishin Olegovich, the center's executive vice-president, said one of the facility's main tasks is to build a regional hub for the China-Europe freight train service and reduce its service blind spots in overseas sections.
"In the meanwhile, we need to guide local authorities to take advantage of the opportunity from the recovery in the growth of fiscal income to lower the leverage ratio, prevent new blind investments and make the government finance more sustainable. "
Because it is impossible for any investor to turn a blind eye to the huge consumer market, it can be expected that in accordance with the requirements of the new dual-circulation development pattern, the Chinese market of the future will free up more investment and consumption spaces.
Sales of these boxes to minors under the age of eight are prohibited, said the document, urging vendors to keep minors from becoming addicted to playing with blind boxes.
Merchandisers should publicize information about the value of the blind boxes' contents, the rules for drawing these boxes, and the probabilities of the outcomes, per the document.
The guideline also banned blind box contents that offend social morality and public order.
In several Chinese cities, a new trend known as "leftover blind boxes" has emerged, offering discounted rates on randomly packed boxes of unsold food and beverages, Chinanews reported on Sunday.
Chengzi (pseudonym), living in Beijing, enjoys buying blind boxes on WeChat's mini program, where three types of bread are available for 17.9 yuan instead of their usual price of 40 yuan, likening the experience to the thrill of buying lottery tickets.
Based on her experience, she added that the blind boxes sold on the mini program are not leftovers, but unsold food from stores before closing time.
The number of businesses launching the blind box promotion is quite a few and each order of the blind box results in a minimum loss of 10 yuan, said the manager of a sushi chain near Beijing's Xizhimen.
A set of sushi blind boxes were purchased for 19.9 yuan, while the original prices were 29 yuan, 15 yuan and 9.9 yuan respectively, totaling 53.9 yuan, according to the reporter from Chinanews.
Due to greater losses associated with the blind box products, the sushi chain controls the quantity by offering only 7 to 8 different product combinations per day, he added.
The blind box products are mainly available in first-tier and new first-tier cities.
For instance, WeChat's leftover blind box mini program Xishi Magic Bag covers Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Nanjing, Kunshan and other cities.
The concept of food blind boxes aligns with the goal of the anti-food waste movement in China, offering a solution to reduce food waste.
Zhu Danpeng, a food and beverages analyst based in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, however, raised concerns about the potential food safety risks associated with blind boxes, due to the use of near-expiry food and uncertainties regarding storage conditions.
China is keen to optimize the management policies of the power battery industry, strengthening the overall planning of the industry's development while guiding rational investment to avoid blind expansion and disorderly development, said Xin Guobin, vice-minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, on Friday during a power battery forum in Yibin, Sichuan province.
Chinese consumers are increasingly warming up to the concept of "leftover blind boxes" — or randomly packed boxes of unsold food and beverages available at discounted rates — as a way of preventing food wastage and saving costs.
"We launch leftover blind boxes when there is food nearing its expiry date at the end of the day.
We pack products such as milk, bread, cake, and sandwiches in blind boxes, and sell these at half the price.