That house cost him a packet.
那幢房子花了他一大笔钱。
Eric bought a packet ship by a packet of his packet.
埃里克用小包装着大笔款项买了艘邮船。
All Tom said in the letter was that he'll be bringing a surprise packet to us.
汤姆信中的整个内容说的就是他要带给我们一个惊喜。
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.
It has also joined hands with Alipay for developing Mickey Mouse-themed red packets or lucky money.
We're investing in our identity services and financial service products along with our partners; we're investing in our network to grow capacity & process more parcels and packets faster, and importantly we're also investing our people.
Each single serving packet is priced less than 2 yuan ($0.28), designed to make the product more affordable and appealing to consumers mainly aged 15 to 30.
me is drawing consumers through campaigns to snap up virtual red packets that can be redeemed in later purchases.
And some 200,000 mom-and-pop stores powered by Alibaba's Ling Shou Tong store management system will provide online sales promotions and augmented reality-based red packets that offer discounts at 3,000 "Tmall Corner Stores.
Daily Fresh was the top-selling pasteurized milk on Hema Fresh, said Cao, adding that innovative marketing campaigns such as printing daily news on the packet helped gain traction with consumers.
To draw new users, the app incentivizes people with generous "red packets" containing real money to invite friends to register and place orders.
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A customer places a packet of Weetabix breakfast cereal into a shopping cart at a supermarket in Slough, UK.
NANNING — A packet of spicy hotpot flavoring printed in both Chinese and Burmese attracted attention at the 5th Lancang-Mekong Business Forum held in early July in Nanning, capital of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Although the products cost 1.5 times that of local ones, they still sell 20,000 to 30,000 packets a month.
A packet of spicy hotpot flavoring printed in both Chinese and the Myanmar language attracted attention at the 5th Lancang-Mekong Business Forum, which was held in early July in Nanning, capital of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
Although the products cost 1.5 times the price of local ones, they still sell 20,000 to 30,000 packets a month.
It is offering red packets (hongbao), coupons and discounts to consumers, 1 billion yuan ($152 million) in innovative loans to buyers overseas purchasing on behalf of consumers in China, as well as using livestreaming promotions at overseas outlets, discount stores and duty-free shops.
Heilongjiang province is expected to issue 42.7 million yuan of consumer vouchers during the Spring Festival via online red packets, offline discount coupons and others.
"A total of 43,250 packets of luosifen will be exported in this batch.
James Kimonyo, Rwanda's ambassador to China, sold hundreds of packets of coffee right after the promotional activity started.
"Our daily output has doubled to 3 million packets from last year," said Jia Jiangong, deputy director of Liuzhou Municipal Commerce Bureau.
Master Kong of the Tingyi Cayman Islands Holding Corp, China's largest instant noodle maker, has speeded up manufacturing to 4 million packets a day to produce sufficient instant noodles for those living in Hubei province, the center of the outbreak, said Ning Gang, head of Master Kong's factory in Tianjin.
Though Tencent Holdings Ltd's WeChat popularized the digital red packet ritual in 2014, it is its burgeoning sister product Weishi, Tencent's short video app, that has taken the center stage this year.
From Jan 17 to Feb 8, customers are encouraged to send virtual red packets containing as little as 0.01 yuan as they share short video clips with peers who use the same app.
The company then randomly subsidizes each red packet that could reach as much as 888 yuan.
A packet of cigarettes generally costs less than 100 yuan.
At the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization at Zhejiang University, Gao and his colleagues have been testing sample packets like coal, fly ash and calcium carbonate from coal-fired power plants across China in order to find the best solution.
"My friends told me purple candies are very popular on the internet, and they do taste good," said Harbin resident Wang Xin, who bought four packets of the candies at the expo.
According to Pinduoduo, the sales volume of women's wear and men's wear has exceed 100 million and 43 million pieces respectively, while sales of tissue totaled 270 million packets.
"A traditional restaurant or grocery store typically draws in customers within a radius of three to five kilometers, but with the aid of data analytics, prospective diners might drive through the city to try out a novel dish just because they have received a red packet with a coupon," he said.
The average latency in communication was 11 milliseconds and throughout the tests nearly 100 percent of data packets were received, said Continental.
As the pilot city of digital renminbi, Fuzhou is to issue 20 million yuan of digital red packets during the summit and officially set up the Fujian Big Data Trading Center, Guo Ningning said.
TIANJIN — On Jan 22, the first day of the Year of the Rabbit, Li, a citizen of North China's Tianjin, prepared for her daughter what in China is called a "red packet", a monetary gift traditionally given by the elderly to the younger generation during Spring Festival or the start of the Chinese New Year.
This virtual red packet of 200 yuan ($29.62) has a lively cover with not only lovely animated images on it but also a message carefully selected by the mother: Try not to be bothered.
"Red packet of the digital yuan is easy for elderly like me to operate and interesting enough to draw youngsters' attention," Li said.
During the weeklong Spring Festival holiday, which began on Jan 21 this year, a large number of red packets of digital yuan have also been distributed to residents across the country to stimulate the consumer market.
Shenzhen distributed 2 million red packets of the digital yuan for catering consumption in mid-January, with a total value of 100 million yuan.
"Several friends of mine have drawn red packets using digital yuan, and everyone is discussing how to get better discounts using them.
For example, China Merchants Bank said via its APP that clients who open a fund account for a private pension at the bank can draw a cash packet with a value up to 288 yuan.
- On the first day of the Year of the Rabbit, Li, a citizen of North China's Tianjin municipality, was preparing a red packet for her daughter, a monetary gift traditionally given by the elderly to the younger generation during the Spring Festival.
This virtual red packet of 200 yuan ($30) has a lively cover with not only lovely animated images on it but also a message carefully selected by the mother: Try not to be bothered.
"Red packet of digital yuan is easy for elderly like me to operate and interesting enough to draw youngsters' attention," said Li.
Shenzhen distributed 2 million red packets of digital yuan for catering consumption in mid-January, with a total value of 100 million yuan.
"Several friends of mine have drawn red packets of digital yuan, and everyone is discussing how to get better discounts using them.
- When consumers in some big cities like Beijing and Guangzhou open the mobile app of the Chinese online food delivery platform Meituan, an enticing digital red packet would be on offer.
For instance, on May 30 and June 9, to boost consumption in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak, the Shenzhen Municipal Government distributed red packets worth 30 million yuan ($4.48 million) denominated in the digital currency via Meituan, a leading Chinese tech and online retail company.
The local government offered consumers in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, digital red packets through a lottery to spend the embedded money at more than 15,000 offline merchants as well as online consumption scenarios provided by Meituan.
From May 30 to Sunday, red packet lottery participants used the digital yuan, also known as the e-CNY, at over 52,000 merchants in Shenzhen listed on Meituan's platform.
Driven by a plethora of digital yuan red packets and consumption vouchers, Meituan users showed an enthusiasm for consumption using the e-CNY.
JD Technology, a subsidiary of e-commerce giant JD, joined hands with Bank of Communications, Postal Savings Bank of China and Ping An Bank to distribute red packets worth more than 10 million yuan in digital yuan from May 31 to Saturday in 23 areas participating in China's e-CNY pilot.
Red packets containing the digital yuan, or e-CNY, were distributed in several cities to boost consumption while China is taking the opportunity of Spring Festival and the Beijing Winter Olympics to further test and promote broader use of its digital currency.
Six large State-owned commercial banks distributed e-CNY red packets worth a total of 25 million yuan ($3.93 million) in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, covering different scenarios such as public transport and discount shopping at Yitian Holiday Plaza, a shopping mall in the city's Nanshan district.
Ahead of Spring Festival, Xinjin district in Chengdu, Sichuan province, held a lottery giving residents a chance to win 26,900 red packets, each containing 66 yuan or 88 yuan worth of digital currency.
The red packets are allowed for consumption at nearly 1,000 designated merchants in the district, including tourist attractions, participating restaurants and supermarkets.
The Beijing-based company said during its digital yuan pilot program that nearly 90 percent of its e-CNY red packets have been used in everyday consumption scenarios since January, with small-value transactions below 30 yuan making up the largest proportion of total transactions, thus promoting the growth of people's overall consumption and offline small business activity.
To promote the use of digital wallets, the first pilot program of the e-CNY digital red packets was conducted in Shenzhen's Luohu district in October last year.
Since then, China's central bank has distributed at least 150 million yuan ($23 million) worth of red packets in Beijing, Suzhou, Chengdu, as well as Shenzhen's Futian and Longhua districts.
Since the first pilot program of the e-CNY digital red packets in Shenzhen's Luohu district, Guangdong, in October 2020, the central bank has distributed 150 million yuan in all in red packets in Beijing, Suzhou, Chengdu in Sichuan province, Shenzhen's Futian and Longhua districts.
Residents to receive 200 yuan worth of e-CNY to spend during Spring FestivalA lucky group of people in Beijing will receive a packet of 200 yuan ($31) apiece in digital currency from the municipal government on Wednesday for online and offline use during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, a notice said on Saturday evening.
People who receive the "red packet" after a random draw can use the e-CNY through certain apps or the digital wallets of designated stores and restaurants in Wangfujing, one of the famous business walking streets in China.
The 10 million yuan in red packets is one of the regular tests before the official launch, according to the local notice.
On Friday, residents in Suzhou, who won a random lottery, received 100,000 virtual "red packets" totaling 20 million yuan ($3.06 million) to spend through an official app at designated online and offline merchants.
Before the digital red packets were issued in Jiangsu, residents in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, were given digital currency red packets in October, as the local government desired to spur consumption to curb the epidemic effect.
Residents who won a random draw received virtual red packets worth 20 million digital yuan ($3.06 million) and they can spend the digital money through the official app in designated offline shops and some e-commerce platforms.
Virtual red packets worth 20 million digital yuan ($3.06 million) can be officially used by residents in Suzhou City, East China's Jiangsu province Friday, coinciding with another Chinese shopping festival on Dec 12, or Double 12.
Starting from 8 pm on Friday, residents who won a random draw could spend their red packets through the official app of digital renminbi in designated shops offline and Chinese online retail giant JD.
com, residents who won a ballot can use the red packets on its app and also in some offline shops affiliated with the company.
The 20 million digital yuan is distributed to residents in 100,000 virtual red packets worth 200 yuan each via a random draw.
The red packets will be valid until Dec 27.
DC/EP was issued in the form of hongbao, or electronic red packets, worth 200 yuan ($29.9) each.
The money in their digital red packets was paid by the district government's finance department.
People who win a lucky drawing will receive the digital yuan in red gift packets through downloading an app on their mobile phones.
The Shenzhen municipal government in Guangdong province and China's central bank jointly started issuing digital yuan red packets on Friday, bringing the general public closer to digital currency as China takes the lead in the field.
The value of each red packet is 200 yuan.
Winners of the drawing will be given instructions on how to open digital yuan wallets and receive their red packets.
"The issuance of digital yuan red packets is an innovative attempt to boost consumption and domestic demand amid regular prevention and control of COVID-19.