She wore a stunning gown to the
gala, stealing the show with her elegance.
她在晚会上穿着一件令人惊艳的长裙，以她的优雅风度吸引了所有人的目光。
The annual charity
gala is always a glittering event, filled with celebrities and philanthropists.
每年的慈善晚会总是一个星光熠熠的活动，聚集了众多名人和慈善家。
We're preparing a special performance for the fundraising
gala next month.
我们正在为下个月的筹款晚会准备一场特别的表演。
The
gala dinner featured a five-course meal prepared by a Michelin-starred chef.
晚宴上有一顿由米其林星级大厨精心烹制的五道菜大餐。
The
gala's theme this year is 'Enchanted Forest,' promising an immersive and magical experience.
今年晚会的主题是“魔法森林”，承诺将带来一场沉浸式且充满魔力的体验。
Tickets for the
gala sold out within hours of going on sale.
晚会的票在开售后几小时内就售罄了。
The proceeds from the
gala will benefit underprivileged children in our community.
晚会的收益将用于帮助我们社区中的贫困儿童。
The highlight of the
gala was a live auction, where guests bid on exclusive items.
晚会的亮点是一个现场拍卖，嘉宾们竞拍了一些独家物品。
The
gala kicked off with a powerful performance by a renowned soprano.
晚会在一位著名女高音的精彩表演中拉开序幕。
After the
gala, guests were invited to dance the night away at the after-party.
晚会结束后，嘉宾们被邀请到after-party上跳舞，度过一个欢乐的夜晚。
According to Zhang Zhengrong, Fang's colleague who is the chairman of the project department's trade union, during the local Saga Dawa Festival and Sho Dun Festival (yogurt festival) each year, the local residents would invite them for a grand gala to enjoy the folk performances and taste the local cuisine.
据方的同事、项目部工会主席张正荣介绍，每年当地的佐贺大洼节和秀顿节（酸奶节），当地居民都会邀请他们参加盛大的晚会，欣赏民间表演，品尝当地美食。
The grand gala was held in the city of Linhai in 2022, in Huangyan district in 2023, and Jiaojiang district in 2024, said Cao Qionglei from State Grid Taizhou Power Supply Co.
国网泰州供电有限公司的曹琼蕾表示，这场盛会于2022年在临海市、2023年在黄岩区和2024年在椒江区举行。
This is particularly true for young shoppers purchasing clothing brands and accessories, as 61 percent of the respondents aged between 18 and 25 plan to increase spending on Chinese-branded clothing, fashion items and accessories during this year's promotional gala, the highest among all product categories and age groups.
对于购买服装品牌和配饰的年轻消费者来说尤其如此，61%的18岁至25岁的受访者计划在今年的促销活动中增加在中国品牌服装、时尚用品和配饰上的支出，这在所有产品类别和年龄组中是最高的。
The number of merchants that will participate in the promotional gala increased by 1.5 times compared with the same period last year, JD said.
京东表示，与去年同期相比，将参加促销晚会的商家数量增加了1.5倍。
Another much-anticipated move in October is the 60th Anniversary Gala, according to the hotel.
据酒店介绍，10月另一个备受期待的活动是60周年庆典。
As a tribute to Auguste Escoffier, Disciples Escoffier International China and the Ritz-Carlton hotels in China partnered to revive the spirit of those dinners by hosting a unique gastronomic gala that features only typical recipes from that time created by Escoffier and served in the 14 Ritz-Carlton hotels in China.
作为对Auguste Escoffier的致敬，Disciples Escoffier International China和中国的丽思卡尔顿酒店携手举办了一场独特的美食盛宴，重振了这些晚宴的精神。这场盛宴只展示了Escoffier创作的当时的典型食谱，并在中国的14家丽思卡尔顿饭店提供。
It will launch a group-buying function within its WeChat mini program during the Black Friday promotional gala and strengthen cooperation with key opinion leaders, Li said.
李说，该公司将在黑色星期五宣传晚会期间在微信小程序中推出团购功能，并加强与主要舆论领袖的合作。
The move aims to ensure a stable and smooth global supply chain and to shore up foreign trade in an orderly manner, especially as vendors are prepping for the upcoming June 18 shopping festival, a midyear shopping gala embraced by many Chinese consumers and brands.
此举旨在确保全球供应链稳定畅通，有序支持外贸，尤其是在供应商为即将到来的6月18日购物节做准备之际，这是一场受到许多中国消费者和品牌欢迎的年中购物盛会。
During the annual gala of China Media Group on March 15, also the World Consumer Rights Day, it was revealed that compromised food safety practices related to pickled cabbage production exist among some noodle makers.
在3月15日，也就是世界消费者权益日，中国传媒集团的年度盛会上，有消息透露，一些面条制造商在酸菜生产方面存在食品安全问题。
Chinese e-commerce giant JD announced on Wednesday it has become the exclusive interactive partner of the 2022 China Media Group Spring Festival Gala, the most-watched annual show on Chinese New Year's Eve.
中国电子商务巨头京东周三宣布，它已成为2022年中国传媒集团春节联欢晚会的独家互动合作伙伴，这是中国除夕夜收视率最高的年度节目。
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。
The Nov 11 shopping festival, its signature annual shopping gala since 2009, also recorded the most marginal growth in years.
自2009年以来，11月11日的购物节是其标志性的年度购物盛会，也创下了多年来最微弱的增长。
Such a trend was picked up by consultancy Kantar, which polled 1,000 customers participating in this year's Nov 11 shopping gala.
咨询公司Kantar发现了这一趋势，该公司对参加今年11月11日购物晚会的1000名顾客进行了调查。
"In its latest endeavor, the company launched a limited-edition Oreo featuring both white biscuits and fillings ahead of the Nov 11 gala, the country's most influential shopping festival.
在其最新努力中，该公司在11月11日全国最具影响力的购物节之前推出了限量版奥利奥，既有白色饼干，也有馅料。
During this promotional gala, JD Logistics applied nearly 400 autonomous delivery vehicles in more than 25 cities in China, delivering 200 percent more orders compared with the same period last year.
在此次促销活动中，京东物流在中国25多个城市应用了近400辆自动驾驶送货车，交付的订单比去年同期增加了200%。
Alibaba Group reported 540.3 billion yuan ($84.56 billion) transaction in this year's Nov 11 shopping gala, citing "consumption vitality and economic resilience".
阿里巴巴集团在今年11月11日的购物盛会上公布了5403亿元人民币（845.6亿美元）的交易，理由是“消费活力和经济韧性”。
In addition, the transaction volume of JD's imported goods supermarket surged 293 percent year-on-year in the first 10 minutes of the final promotional gala.
此外，在最后一场促销晚会的前10分钟，京东进口商品超市的交易量同比飙升293%。
Shanghai gala seen as key platform by senior executives to boost tradeThe China International Import Expo has not only become a major platform for foreign corporations to access the China market, but also a stage for domestic enterprises to promote free trade and economic globalization, according to senior executives of Chinese State-owned enterprises.
上海联欢晚会被高层视为促进贸易的重要平台中国国有企业高管表示，中国国际进口博览会不仅成为外国企业进入中国市场的主要平台，也是国内企业促进自由贸易和经济全球化的舞台。
Over the past two years, consumption of such products rose by more than 50 percent in China, while it soared to 80 percent during last year's June 18 promotion gala.
过去两年，这类产品在中国的消费增长了50%以上，而在去年的“6·18”促销活动中，这一数字更是猛增到80%。
Among the 13 million items offering discounts during the gala, which in Tmall's case commenced with a presale on May 24, 1.4 million are making their debut, according to Yang Guang, vice-president of Tmall.
阿里巴巴旗下天猫平台的副总裁杨光表示，在这场从5月24日开始预售的盛会中，1300万件打折商品中有140万件是首次亮相。
In this year's 3-15 Evening Gala — which is produced by China Central Television and broadcast annually on March 15, International Consumer Rights Day — 360 Search was found to have illegally posted fake medical advertisements.
在今年的3·15晚会——该晚会由中央电视台制作，每年3月15日国际消费者权益日播出——中，360搜索被发现非法发布虚假医疗广告。
China Central Television said in its 315 Evening Gala telecast on Monday that 360 Search and UC Browser had used false medical advertisements to influence user choices.
中国中央电视台周一在其3·15晚会节目中表示，360搜索和UC浏览器使用虚假医疗广告影响用户选择。
The company also boosted its brand awareness through themed galas such as the New Year's Eve Gala and introduced a new marketing campaign "All the Videos You Like".
该公司还通过举办主题晚会，如新年除夕晚会，提升了品牌知名度，并推出了一项新的营销活动：“你喜欢的所有视频”。
The company also confirmed that Douyin would partner with China Central Television on the distribution of virtual red packets, which has become a tradition in the Spring Festival Gala in recent years, the most-watched event of the year in China.
该公司还证实，抖音将与中国中央电视台合作分发虚拟红包，这是近年来中国收视率最高的年度盛事春晚的一项传统活动。
"One reason for this is that a slew of industries such as e-commerce, gaming and automobiles tend to make a large number of investments during this period, especially during the Double Eleven Shopping Gala (in early November).
其中一个原因是，电子商务、游戏和汽车等众多行业往往会在这一时期进行大量投资，尤其是在11月初的“双十一”购物节期间。
Boqii Holding Ltd, a pet-focused platform that went public on the US stock market, reported total sales of 244 million yuan ($37 million) during the extended Singles Day shopping gala from Nov 1 to 11, up nearly 40 percent year-on-year.
在美国股市上市的宠物平台Boqii Holding Ltd报告称，在11月1日至11日延长的光棍节购物狂欢期间，总销售额达到2.44亿元人民币(3700万美元)，同比增长近40%。
Over 336 brands participated in the shopping gala both on Boqii's e-commerce platform and its store on Tmall and JD.
超过336个品牌参与了在Boqii电子商务平台及其在天猫和京东商店的购物盛典。
Lu Kun, leading a team of eight, spent a hectic day during the annual online shopping gala on Nov 11, selling pet products to over 12,000 followers of the store he manages and more potential consumers on Taobao.
陆坤带领一个由8人组成的团队，在11月11日年度网购狂欢节这天忙得不可开交，向他管理的淘宝店铺的1.2万多名粉丝以及其他潜在消费者推销宠物产品。
The report said cosmetics and personal care products are gaining traction among middle-class consumers, with horticultural products, furniture and electronic and digital goods seeing the most rapid growth during last year's Black Friday sales gala.
报告称，化妆品和个人护理产品在中产阶级消费者中越来越受欢迎，去年“黑色星期五”销售活动中，园艺产品、家具和电子数码商品的增长最为迅速。
In addition, the sales of high-end infant milk power rose by 160 percent on a yearly basis during the 11-day promotion gala, while the sales of high-end gaming laptops and gaming phones surged by 220 percent and 200 percent, respectively, year-on-year.
此外，高端婴儿奶粉的销售额在双十一期间同比增长了160%，而高端游戏笔记本电脑和游戏手机的销售额分别增长了220%和200%。
More than 100,000 brick-and-mortar retail stores on JD Daojia have participated in the sales gala.
超过10万家实体零售店通过京东到家参与了这场销售盛会。
Some 22,000 overseas brands from 78 markets attended the annual 24-hour shopping gala last year.
A string of companies apologized for their negligence after being exposed by China's annual consumer rights gala on Thursday.
It is noteworthy that young users in third- to sixth-tier cities recorded the most rapid growth during this year's June 18 shopping gala promotion, while the middle-aged and elderly users in higher-tier cities increased dramatically, fueled by the consumption of online fresh products, according to JD.
As the exclusive short video app partner of the 2020 Spring Festival Gala aired Friday on Chinese New Year's Eve, Kuaishou Technology announced that 63.9 billion user engagements were made during the live broadcast, which is the highest amount in the history of the gala.
CCTV's Spring Festival Gala has been the most watched television program in the world.
In 2019, 1.17 billion viewers watched the gala via television, the internet and other outlets during the live broadcast.
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.
Ten of its brands participating in the gala saw sales surge 62 percent from a year ago, with its Sulwhasoo, Laneige and Innisfree brands each netting over 100 million yuan on that day.
China's short-video platform Kuaishou has become China Media Group's exclusive interactive partner at the Spring Festival Gala 2020, CCTV reported on Thursday.
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.
Chinese short video platform Kuaishouxa0has become the exclusive interactive partner of the 2020 China Media Group (CMG) Spring Festival Gala, the most-watched annual show on Chinese New Year's Eve, and will offer a whopping 1 billion yuan ($143.1 million) in cash prizes.
”Rodriguez attended the United Nations Correspondents Association annual awards gala in Manhattan on Friday.
“There are other businesses like us that are here (at the awards gala).
people will buy scenarios, or concepts, where the products might be free and just enablers of services," said Zhang, during a conversation with Adi Ignatius, editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, at the Thinkers50 2019 Awards Gala held the same day in London.
He made those marks when talking about the 268.4 billion yuan ($38.4 billion) in record sales during the Singles Day shopping gala on Alibaba's e-commerce platform Tmall, at the 2019 Observing China Forum.
"The shopping gala on Singles Day is not a reflection of digitization but innovation," Zhang added.
More than 22,000 overseas brands from 200 countries and regions participated in this year's shopping gala in China, according to data released by Alibaba.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd achieved record sales of 268.4 billion yuan ($38.4 billion) during the shopping gala, an increase of 26 percent compared with the figure in 2018.
The Singles Day shopping gala, which is also the world's busiest online shoppingxa0day, has generated more online sales than the total revenues ofxa0Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the United States combined.
"Occasions like the upcoming CIIE and the Nov 11 shopping gala represent a clear vote of confidence of China's pursuit of innovation and welcoming gestures for foreign businesses," he said.
The promotion gives premium members in Shenzhen more benefits and offers an additional option for consumers right before the upcoming online shopping gala on Nov 11.
The price reduction is expected to provide members with great value, so that they no longer need to rush to buy something that may not fit their real need, which is a common mistake made during China's annual Nov 11 online shopping gala.
According to the company, during last year's Singles Day online shopping gala, Bose's 141 new retail stores in China achieved a 250 percent year-on-year growth, and its new members surged by 200 percent during the same period.
Chinese e-commerce giant JD said it will launch 100 million new products and C2M (customer-to-manufacturer) commodities within the next three years, and offer discounts and coupons worth more than 100 billion yuan ($14.1 billion) during this year's Singles Day shopping gala.
According to Chris Tung, Alibaba's chief marketing officer and main organizer of the event, this year's gala will be the "longest, largest and most diverse"since its debut four years ago.
Moreover, sales from lower-tier cities and towns have witnessed robust growth during this year's June 18 shopping gala promotion, according to the company.
Vans, as one of VF's reputed brands, hit a daily sales record of 100 million yuan ($14.6 million) on Tmall during last year's one-day gala.
"The guiding principle of the upgrade is to enable merchants to move their business operations from merchandise-centric to consumer-centric," he said, adding the new functionalities are set to become available to merchants ahead of this year's Nov 11 shopping gala, the bellwether event for China's consumer spending.
An ongoing battle between two major air-conditioner manufacturers is heating up as a key retail promotion gala approaches on Tuesday.
"The overall air-conditioner market saw slowing growth, so the upcoming June 18 shopping gala is of great significance for air-conditioner makers to boost their sales, especially for Aux, which has relied heavily on online sales," said Zhang Yanbin, an independent researcher in the home appliances sector.
During the Spring Festival Gala in 2018, 300 Zerotech light-equipped, air-borne drones "danced" in synchronized fashion as part of a performance, arranging themselves into a three-dimensional shape of a dolphin.
One month after pampering online bargain hunters via the Singles Day shopping gala, e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is now providing customers with a wide array of offline discounts through its newly-formed local services entity.
According to a report from online shopping portal Tmall, released in March after its Women's Day sales gala, there was a staggering 1,389 percent growth year-on-year in the number of women purchasing running wear.
Chinese tech conglomerate Alibaba Group sent a communication satellite earlier this month to support its online shopping gala, while startup COMMSAT will send seven satellites at the same time in December for IoT (internet of things) use.
The donation of 10 million Namibia dollars ($722,000) to the Namibia Shack Dwellers Federations was announced at a gala dinner held on Monday evening in Windhoek at the 10-year partnership celebrations between MTC and Huawei.
JD Daojia, a major Chinese online-to-offline platform that connects online demands with offline merchants, set a new record for daily peak orders, with total sales three times higher than last year's Singles Day online shopping gala.
Alibaba Group broke the 10 billion yuan sales threshold within the first two minutes and five seconds, after the e-commerce on Sunday giant kicked off the 10th year of its iconic Double 11 shopping gala.
Alibaba hosted a star-studded gala on Saturday night in Shanghai, featuring superstar singer Mariah Carey and Cirque du Soleil to pump sales.
Citing the coming nationwide online shopping gala on Nov 11, Hammes said that he had never expected that e-commerce could be such a big driver of businesses.
According to the company, one major purpose of the plan is to enhance customers' user experience during the gala, which clocked up 168.2 billion yuan ($24.2 billion) in sales last year.
Alibaba kicked off a massive countdown campaign on Friday for the Singles Day promotion, recruiting 180,000 brands to join in the annual gala.
Some 180,000 brands from China and around the world will participate in this year's gala.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is making its iconic Nov 11 shopping gala "a truly globalized event" by introducing massive presales activities and smart recommendation mechanisms to overseas buyers for the first time.
Menswear brand Diking, e-bike manufacturer Yadea and virtual reality company LUCI, for instance, are among the third tier of FIFA's three-level sponsor system for the gala event.
Banga received USCIB's International Leadership Award at a gala dinner at the United Nations headquarters in New York, in recognition of Mastercard's ongoing leadership to extend the benefits of an expanding economy to all segments of society.
McGraw added that the gala provided a platform to underscore ongoing American and global business support for the SDGs, policies that promote more open cross-border trade and investment, and robust US engagement with the UN and other international bodies.
UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed attended the gala.
In conjunction with the route launches, HNA Group, a global Fortune 500 company focused on tourism, logistics and financial services, is also supporting a series of NYC events including Lincoln Center's Fall Gala, the China Institute's Blue Cloud Gala and the Asia Society's Game Changer Awards.
"Notably, not to be alone on Singles Day, Chinese express firms have already geared up for the shopping gala to grab a slice of the pie.
This year's gala also features the establishment of eco-friendly facilities.
During the Spring Festival this year, short videos concerning CCTV's Spring Gala had 4.8 billion views on Weibo.
Merchants from Tmall, Alibaba's online marketplace for established brands, have also participated in the promotional gala, vowing to offer direct price cuts and discounts on merchandise.
As China's biggest shopping event of the year, the Double 11, or 11-11, promotional gala, which began in late October and peaked on Saturday, has played a vital role in stimulating people's purchasing appetites and bolstering the recovery of consumption and economic growth, they added.
The sales of over 60 brands surpassed 1 billion yuan, and nearly 20,000 brands witnessed their turnover increase threefold year-on-year over the weekslong promotion gala.
Sales of home appliances via e-commerce giant JD's online marketplaces exceeded 1 billion yuan in 30 seconds after the clock struck 8 pm on Tuesday, while the transaction volume of smartphones such as Apple's iPhone, and those from Xiaomi and Honor, skyrocketed 100 percent year-on-year in the first 10 minutes of the gala event, according to JD.
The transaction volume of premium consumer electronic devices, such as interchangeable-lens digital cameras and 3D printing equipment, surged about 100 percent and 400 percent year-on-year, respectively, in the first hour of the gala, Tmall said.
A special gala featuring Chinese time-honored brands has begun in Shanghai, with 278 products having their debut to the public, according to official sources.
More than 40,000 overseas brands participated in the mid-year shopping gala.
The Gala Magic Club has set up several shops in Shanghai in just two years.
The midyear promotion gala has further stimulated consumers' purchasing appetites and boosted the recovery of the economy, said Wang Yun, a researcher at the Academy of Macroeconomic Research, which is affiliated with the National Development and Reform Commission.
A report on last year's Single's Day shopping gala emphasized that it is hard to acquire customers through promotional pricing strategy and companies instead need to focus on branding and product quality to support long-term development.
In addition, small home appliances and intelligent home equipment have seen robust growth in sales during the Spring Festival promotional gala.
com, the group's business-to-business platform, has also rolled out the Digital Hybrid Trade Show initiative during this year's Dec 12 shopping gala.
该集团旗下的企业对企业平台“com”也在今年的12月12日购物盛会上推出了“数字混合贸易展”计划。
While the average daily turnover of the top 50 livestreamers during this year's 618 shopping gala in June was 18 million yuan, Dongarmed Oriental Selection, the livestreaming arm of New Oriental, raked in 69.85 million yuan a day on average during the peak of the multiday festival.
"We observed that Chinese consumers have become more rational during the midyear promotion gala, and they are inclined to choose higher-quality and new products, rather than commodities with lower prices," Liu said.
The midyear promotion gala has stimulated consumers' purchasing desire dampened by COVID-19 flare-ups and has boosted the recovery of the economy, said Wang Yun, a researcher with the Academy of Macroeconomic Research.
"We observed that Chinese consumers have become more rational during the midyear promotion gala, and are inclined to choose higher-quality and new commodities," said Liu Hui, director of JD's Consumption and Industry Development Research Institute.
The comments came after China Media Group's annual consumer rights gala on Tuesday to celebrate the annual World Consumer Rights Day exposed a string of online services and electronic products that infringe on consumers' legitimate rights and interests.
这些评论是在周二中央广播电视总台举办的一年一度的“3·15”国际消费者权益日晚会之后发表的，该晚会揭露了一系列侵犯消费者合法权益的在线服务和电子产品。