Eric ripped open the envelope and read what was inside.
埃里克撕开信封，看破里面的信。
His parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into
envelopes.
他父母年轻的时候，常常把钱放进信封里来进行预算。
Tom glanced at the envelope and recognized his uncle's handwriting.
汤姆看了一眼信封,认出那是他叔父的笔迹。
The company is adding a local twist to create better experiences for, and more engagement with, consumers, including products inside larger packaging suitable for sharing with friends and family, and digital red envelopes, said Gilles Leclerc, president of Coca-Cola Greater China and Mongolia.
可口可乐大中华区和蒙古区总裁吉勒·勒克莱尔表示，该公司正在增加当地特色，为消费者创造更好的体验和更多的参与度，包括适合与朋友和家人分享的更大包装内的产品，以及数字红包。
As red envelopes are a popular way for Chinese citizens to send New Year greetings, more than 4 billion red envelopes were sent online through WeChat during this year's Spring Festival.
由于红包是中国公民送新年祝福的一种流行方式，今年春节期间，通过微信在线发送的红包超过40亿个。
From January 24 to February 15, JD will hand out a whopping 1.5 billion yuan ($235.5 million) in the form of virtual red envelopes to viewers across the nation.
从1月24日到2月15日，京东将以虚拟红包的形式向全国观众发放高达15亿元人民币（2.355亿美元）的红包。
Giving red envelopes or hongbao is a traditional practice during the Spring Festival,xa0to deliver good luck and greetings to family members and friends.
送红包或红包是春节期间的传统习俗，用来给家人和朋友送好运和问候。
The digital red envelope race during the Spring Festival holiday has been heating up in recent years.
近年来，春节期间的数字红包竞赛愈演愈烈。
WeChat, the instant-messaging app operated by Chinese internet titan Tencent Holdings Ltd, pioneered the award of red envelopes via its WeChat Pay during the Spring Festival Gala in 2015. xa0E-payments company Alipay, tech giant Baidu and short-video platform Kuaishou also lined up to become sponsors and gave out red envelopes to viewers.
微信是中国互联网巨头腾讯控股有限公司运营的即时通讯应用，在2015年春晚期间率先通过微信支付发放信封。xa0E支付公司支付宝、科技巨头百度和短视频平台快手也排队成为赞助商，并向观众发放红包。
During the live broadcast, Kuaishou handed out five rounds of virtual "red envelopes," totaling a record-breaking 1 billion yuan ($144 million).
During the event, 2.21 million people snatched envelopes with extra amounts ranging from 66.6 yuan to 2,020 yuan.
It has been six years since CCTV first adopted the "red envelope" campaign in partnership with internet companies to give out virtual red envelopes during the live broadcast, making interaction via mobile devices an essential supplement to the gala.
This year, CCTV joined hands with Kuaishou to create a new way of snatching up virtual red envelopes by watching a video and giving it a thumbs-ups instead of the traditional approach of looking at images and texts.
As Spring Festival is approaching, Migu has also allowed users to scan Spring Festival elements, such as red envelopes and chunlian, or spring couplets, using 5G and augmented reality technology to get gifts.
Kuaishou will share a record high of 1 billion yuan ($142.9 million) worth of red envelopes in cooperation with CMG at this year's Spring Festival Gala, a program celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year.
As the most-watched annual show on Chinese New Year's Eve, the Spring Festival Gala has a new tradition of snatching red envelopes in digital form these years with the rapid development of high technology.
The tradition of older generations giving cash in red envelopes or hongbao to children during the Spring Festival is a way for Chinese people to express their best wishes and good luck.
In some parts of South China, unmarried people can also get red envelopes during the holiday.
In this year's Spring Festival, audiences can use video interactive technology to snatch red envelopes under the theme of "Thumbs-up for Chinese Year" during not only Chinese New Year's Eve but also the whole period of the Spring Festival celebration.
The new way to get this year's red envelopes is to watch a video and give it a thumbs-up for the happiness, diversity, truth, kindness and vitality of China and Chinese people's lives, which is different from the traditional approach of looking at images and texts.
The interactive activity of snatching red envelopes will last for a month and the public can learn about the rules for the sharing of this year's red envelopes starting from Jan 17 via Kuaishou, the report said.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, audiences only need to watch a video, which is different from the previous form of texts and graphics, and click "like" to get the red envelope, according to Kuaishou.
Giving cash in red envelopes (hongbao) is a traditional practice during the Spring Festival,xa0to deliver good luck and greetings to family members and friends.
The digital red envelope race during the Spring Festival holiday began heating up since Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd unveiled its hongbao service on its popular instant messaging app WeChat in 2014, drawing millions of new users for its mobile payment service.
At the same time, the company's Kinder brand targeting children will adopt a new package in the form of a red envelope, which indicates good luck and surprise to children.
More than 210 million Chinese received a total of 1.79 billion "red envelopes" with digital money during the Fitness Red Packet Campaign initiated by QQ, Tencent's leading social media platform.
It will also distribute virtual "red envelopes" containing cash to new followers, and budget 1 billion yuan ($151 million) in 2018 to subsidize those who avidly post answers on Wukong Q&A, a Quora-like knowledge sharing service, he added.
Yu often cooks Chinese food for the workers, and would give out red envelopes with cash bonus sealed inside on traditional Chinese holidays.
Mobike users hoping to cash in need to find and unlock bikes marked with hongbao, or red, cash-filled envelopes.
Meanwhile, online retailer Vipshop will distribute more than 30 million yuan worth of coupons and red envelope benefits to the residents in Guangdong, and its competitor Suning.
Suzhou in Jiangsu province issued coupons worth 100 million yuan in the form of "red envelopes" for car buyers, valid till March 31, 2024.
Red envelopes are part of modern Chinese culture of gifting cash.
Yiwu, China's commodities hub located in East China's Zhejiang province, also launched 10 measures on Dec 12 to keep employees during the holiday, including consumption and transportation subsidies, digital RMB red envelopes, as well as production subsidies to enterprises.
Besides Shaoxing and Yiwu, the Jiashan county and Huangyan district in Taizhou city of Zhejiang province also launched a series of policies such as releasing red envelopes to encourage employees to stay at where they are.
More than 250 million yuan ($35.87 million) worth of consumer vouchers and digital renminbi red envelopes have been distributed in East China's Jiangsu province.
South China's metropolis of Shenzhen in Guangdong province began to issue digital renminbi red envelopes worth 30 million yuan ($4.5 million) to local residents through on-demand services platform Meituan on Sunday, in a bid to boost consumption and business recovery.
The city of Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong province is giving out digital RMB red envelopes valued at 30 million yuan ($4.51 million) through on-demand services platform Meituan to boost consumption and business recovery.
Giving out coupons, including e-CNY red envelopes, has become an effective measure for multiple regions in China to boost online and offline consumption.
Shenzhen's Futian district is handing out 15 million yuan ($2.29 million) red envelopes in digital RMB and 15 million yuan in regular coupons.
In recent years, Chinese people like Zhao have embraced this new twist on the tradition of handing out red envelopes, or "hongbao" in Chinese, during the Lunar New Year holiday.
During Spring Festival, China's Lunar New Year holiday, luxury brands usually launch products that feature the Chinese Zodiac and color red, and they tend to release derivative products such as red envelopes.
"I didn't win a digital RMB red envelope in February, and I felt sad for missing a chance to experience (the new payment system)," Tao said while footing the bill using the lucky money.
"In the latest public trial run of China's digital legal tender, the Chinese capital Beijing, with a population of around 22 million, handed out 40 million yuan (about 6.25 million U. S. dollars) in digital currency to consumers in a total of 200,000 digital red envelopes, each containing 200 yuan.
These giveaways were also distributed through a lottery of virtual red envelopes, or "hongbao," a traditional Chinese practice of gifting money.
Chengdu, Sichuan province, will issue 200,000 digital red envelopes starting from 8 am on Wednesday to 12 pm on Thursday, making the western city the fourth to issue digital currency, according to a notice released by the Chengdu Municipal Financial Regulatory Bureau.
Jointly organized by the Chengdu municipal government and the Chengdu Branch of the People's Bank of China, it will issue 200,000 digital red envelopes of e-CNY — China's digital currency — totaling 40 million yuan ($6.2 million).
Anyone working or living in Chengdu can apply for the envelopes, which have two face values — 178 yuan and 238 yuan.
After winning a digital red envelope of e-CNY, the lucky winner can spend the digital money in more than 11,000 stores in Chengdu that can accept e-CNY as well as in the Jingdong Mall.
One of the first e-CNY pilot cities, Chengdu is the fourth to issue digital red envelopes after Shenzhen, Guangdong province, Suzhou, Jiangsu province, and Beijing.
The total sum of its envelopes is the highest of the other three cities, and more envelopes will be given than in the others.
Of the 40-million-yuan e-CNY red envelopes, 30 million yuan is from the Chengdu government.
Internal recommendation is also encouraged and those who successfully recommend a suitable talent will get a 200 to 300 yuan reward and if the recommended talent can work for two months, the recommender can get another red envelope as a reward.
During the rest of the livestreaming, the couple chatted with viewers, who sent virtual presents to the livestreaming room as red envelopes, or fenziqian, which also act as symbols of blessings for a blissful marriage.
Now, more and more consumers are increasingly getting used to searching for fresh fruits and vegetables online, quickly placing orders and snatching "red envelopes" to receive discounts.
Xiang Ligang, director-general of telecom industry group the Information Consumption Alliance, said Chinese companies are pushing the technological envelope of smartphone cameras.
Kuaishou gave viewers 1 billion yuan ($144 million) in virtual "red envelopes", and encouraged recipients to donate all the envelopes they collected during the event to Wuhan.
"The whole video industry has been boosted by the 'red envelope' campaign during Lunar New Year and the epidemic, along with rising user traffic and usage time," said Ma Shicong, an analyst with Beijing-based internet consultancy Analysys, adding that 5G and ultrahigh-definition technologies have been applied in this year's live broadcast.
The licensed products range from a commemorative envelope priced 9.9 yuan each to handbags, brooches, and gold bars.
Jim Athanasopoulos, chief financial officer of Imax China, said: "We are continuing to push the envelope, differentiating our (film screening) experience, and to offer consumers something different.
The Hefei company has provided a New Year's "red envelope" for each employee who worked during the holiday on top of their legal overtime pay.
To push the envelope, the company has made inroads in the smart car sector, hoping to give a boost to its development.
Instead of withdrawing cash from a bank and putting it in a red envelope, this year, she chose to use the e-CNY mobile application, passing on her blessing with digital fiat currency.
During the fifth Digital China Summit over the weekend, Fuzhou issued digital renminbi red envelopes worth 20 million yuan ($2.96 million) to spur consumption.
Some 28,000 local residents and tourists won handsome red envelopes stuffed with a total of 10 million yuan ($1.55 million) in digital RMB in Sanya, South China's Hainan province, on Sunday, a day ahead of the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.
The event continued the traditional Chinese practice of giving cash gifts, or hongbao, in red envelopes.
"The issuance of consumption subsidies in the form of digital RMB red envelopes in Sanya was a routine test in the process of research and development of the currency," Fu said.
In February and June, Beijing and Shanghai also sent digital yuan giveaways to local residents through a lottery of virtual red envelopes.
"I did not win a digital RMB red envelope in February, and I felt sad for missing a chance to experience (the new payment system)," Tao said while footing the bill using the lucky money.
"In the latest public trial run of e-CNY, China's digital legal tender, Beijing, with a population of around 22 million, handed out 40 million yuan ($6.25 million) in digital currency to consumers in 200,000 digital red envelopes, each containing 200 yuan.
These giveaways were also distributed through a lottery of virtual red envelopes, or hongbao, a traditional Chinese practice of gifting money.
A total of 350,000 digital red envelopes, each containing 55 yuan of digital currency, will be given to lottery winners, the office said on its official WeChat account.
Beijing will dispatch 200,000 red envelopes worth 200 yuan ($31.33) each to lucky applicants, the Beijing Local Financial Supervision and Administration on Tuesday.
The 200 yuan digital renminbi in the red envelope can be spent at nearly 2,000 designated commercial entities in core commercial districts in Beijing from June 11 to 20.
Not only does it promote citizens' participation during the issuance of the "red envelopes", it also considers the users' needs of the circulation of digital money.
The digital currency will be issued via lottery in virtual red envelopes, each containing 200 yuan.
This is the third time the city will issue the currency in "red envelopes," worth 200 yuan each, via a random draw.
Lu was one of the 100,000 lucky residents of Suzhou who won a "red envelope" containing 200 digital yuan in a pilot program and could spend the digital currency in designated brick-and-mortar stores as well as on online retail giant JD.
In October, when the southern boomtown of Shenzhen issued digital currency worth 10 million yuan in 50,000 "red envelopes" as part of a pilot program, local residents and merchants were more willing to use the new form of currency than expected.
A total of 10 million yuan ($1.49 million) of digital renminbi was distributed to 50,000 users in the form of "red envelopes".
Liu said the process is easy and he would like to transfer more money for digital use after funds in his red envelope are used up.
From Oct 12 to 18, more than 62,000 digital yuan transactions were made, and many users have also transferred funds from their own bank accounts after spending all the money in their red envelopes.