The new restaurant is said to be in the top
tier of dining experiences in the city.
这家新餐厅据说在城市中的餐饮体验中属于顶级水平。
Our company's IT infrastructure has multiple
tiers of security to protect sensitive data.
我们公司的IT基础设施有多个安全层级来保护敏感数据。
The tickets for the front row seats are in a different
tier from those in the balcony.
前排座位的票与楼座的票属于不同的等级。
The athlete trained tirelessly to move up from the second
tier to the elite
tier in her sport.
运动员不懈训练，以从二级晋升到她所在运动项目的精英级别。
The hospital's emergency response system operates in three
tiers, based on the severity of the case.
医院的应急响应系统根据病例的严重程度分为三个层级运行。
The university offers courses across several
tiers, from introductory to advanced.
这所大学提供从入门到高级的多个层级的课程。
The government's new policy aims to reduce income inequality by creating more job opportunities in lower-
tier cities.
政府的新政策旨在通过在较低级别的城市创造更多就业机会来减少收入不平等。
The company's
tiered pricing strategy allows customers to choose services based on their needs and budget.
公司的分层定价策略允许客户根据需求和预算选择服务。
The eco-friendly products are divided into three
tiers: bronze, silver, and gold, depending on their sustainability.
环保产品根据其可持续性分为铜、银和金三个等级。
The city's public transportation system has a
tiered fare structure, with discounts for frequent commuters.
该市的公共交通系统有一个分层票价结构，对频繁通勤者提供折扣。
The CEO said that stores in China consistently outperform expectations, with new openings across tier 1 to tier 3 cities garnering positive results, with the Kerry Center store in Shanghai delivering strong outcomes.
这位首席执行官表示，中国的门店持续超出预期，一至三线城市的新开业取得了积极成果，上海嘉里中心门店取得了强劲成果。
According to a 2021 report by iiMedia that ranked chocolate brands in China, Dove, Ferrero Rocher and Snickers were in the first tier, with sales higher than all other brands combined.
根据iiMedia 2021年的一份报告，对中国巧克力品牌进行排名，德芙、费列罗-罗氏和士力架位居第一，销售额高于所有其他品牌的总和。
Members of the private club will be provided black tier status at Harrods in London and access to Harrods' services such as aviation, estates and interior design.
该私人俱乐部的成员将在伦敦哈罗德百货公司获得黑层身份，并可获得哈罗德百货公司的航空、房地产和室内设计等服务。
"The move has a direct bearing on strengthening the PSBC's capacity to supply credit, as well as boosting its capability to serve the real economy and guard against risks," said PSBC President Liu Jianjun, adding that with a capitalization of 45 billion yuan ($6.5 billion) in place, the tier 1 capital adequacy ratio will be further raised.
PSBC总裁刘建军表示：“此举直接关系到加强PSBC的信贷供应能力，以及提高其服务实体经济和防范风险的能力。”他补充道，随着450亿元人民币（65亿美元）的资本到位，一级资本充足率将进一步提高。
In first and second tier cities, Starbucks China is going to optimize its store portfolio and density in key trade zone.
在一二线城市，星巴克中国将优化其在关键贸易区的门店组合和密度。
"So children in lower tier cities won't have to go to Beijing or Shanghai to experience our products.
“因此，低线城市的孩子不必去北京或上海体验我们的产品。
ICBC, Haier, Tencent and China Life Insurance occupied the top five on the list, with these brands entering the world-class brand tier.
工商银行、海尔、腾讯、中国人寿位列榜单前五，进入世界级品牌行列。
Wang Wenjie, executive director and vice-president of Huarong AMC, said at a news conference on Wednesday: "Through the introduction of strategic investors and more capital, Huarong will effectively replenish core tier 1 capital, enhance its capital regulatory indicators and shareholder structure, largely improve its risk resistance capacity and consolidate the foundations of sustainable development.
华融AMC执行董事兼副总裁王文杰，在周三的新闻发布会上表示：“通过引入战略投资者和更多资本，华融将有效补充核心一级资本，增强资本监管指标和股东结构，大幅提高抵御风险的能力，夯实可持续发展的基础。
With an extensive brand portfolio, we would like to reach consumers in lower tier cities whose purchasing power will certainly increase over time," she said.
凭借广泛的品牌组合，我们希望接触到低线城市的消费者，他们的购买力肯定会随着时间的推移而提高，”她说。
The priority of expansion efforts in retail is penetration in lower tier markets, such as Zunyi, Guizhou province, to strengthen its branding exposure and get more access to consumers in the country, the company said.
该公司表示，零售扩张的重点是在诸如贵州遵义等较低级别市场进行渗透，以增强品牌曝光并获得更多接触消费者的机会。
"The anticipated growth momentum corresponds with the increasing demand for internationally branded hotels to meet evolving consumer needs, especially within second and third tier cities in China," Watts said.
瓦茨表示：“预期的增长势头与中国二三线城市日益增长的国际品牌酒店需求相吻合，这反映出消费者需求的变化。”
"Club Med, as the world leading all-inclusive holiday experience provider, will also further focus destinations in the third and fourth tier cities, as increasing number of middle-income Chinese families in those cities are willing and capable to spend more on tourism.
作为全球领先的全包式度假体验提供商，Club Med也将进一步聚焦三四线城市的旅游市场。随着中国三四线城市中越来越多的中等收入家庭愿意并且有能力在旅游上投入更多，这些城市正展现出巨大的旅游消费潜力。
Shen Peng, Waterdrop's founder and CEO, said in an interview with media in Beijing that the company will focus on domestic business in short term, especially serving people from cities below the third tier and the tech-savvy young generation.
水滴公司创始人兼首席执行官沈鹏在北京接受媒体采访时表示，该公司短期内将专注于国内业务，尤其是服务三线以下城市的人群和科技意识强烈的年轻一代。
Among these, 70 percent are from third-to-fourth tier cities, up 10 percentage points year-on-year.
其中，三线及以下城市用户占比达到70%，同比提升10个百分点。
"The company's average land cost in first tier cities is 3,711 yuan per sq m, 2,572 yuan per sq m in second-tier cities, and 1,501 yuan per sq m in third-tier cities, a comparatively low level of cost in comparison with its peers," said Pan Hao, a senior analyst with the Beike Real Estate Research Institute.
The company has been mostly developing urban comprehensive complexes, with a focus on first tier cities.
While the company's store opening plans focus on first and second-tier Chinese cities, the consumers in lower tier cities, especially the younger generation, are just as valued, to whom Levi's is more frequently presented via dealership and e-commerce platforms, added Yang.
If a company only focuses on top tier cities, then it is drifting away from such a critical role.
"Its ability to reach students ranging from top tier cities to fifth-tier and even remote areas, competitiveness in managing the online wave and technology, as well as the team's continuous upgrading in strategic management made us believe that the firm will bring revolutionary changes to the education industry," Hu said.
Lego expanded its presence in tier three and four cities in China, with 140 retail stores in 35 cities by the end of 2019, including flagship stores in Beijing and Shanghai.
Paul Huang, senior vice-president of the Lego Group and general manager of Lego China, said Lego is going to open more stores in developed markets in Eastern China, as well as in some capital cities in China's western provinces and some lower tier cities to have readily good coverage of the country's geography.
He said even for some stores in lower tier cities, they're performing stronger than some stores in tier-one city demonstrating the great potential of the Chinese market across many geographic places.
The company on July 16 opened its store in Hangzhou Railway Station and has plans to open more locations at airports and high-speed railway stations in first- and second tier cities.
He added that Kaikeba's students not only come from top tier cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, but also from foreign markets, such as the United States, Japan and Singapore.
Upon completion, the bridge will have two levels, with the upper tier having a four-lane highway and the lower tier a single track railway.
In 2018, British magazine The Banker placed China CITIC Bank in 24th place inits "Top 500 Global Banking Brands" list, and 27th in its "Top 1,000 World Banks by Tier 1" list.
The annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Chinese Brands ranking, jointly prepared by advertising holding company WPP and its research firm Kantar Millward Brown, shows the growth was fuelled by brands accelerating their expansion into China's lower tier cities, which have seen rapid development and rising consumer buying power, and increasingly positive attitudes to Chinese consumer brands with a global presence.
Yu Jian, general manager of shopper behavior specialist Kantar Worldpanel, released the Kantar Worldpanel Beauty Panel which concluded from 40,000 samples from 373 tier 1 to tier 5 cities in China.
A news briefing was organized for Polish media, which was attended by tier one national Polish media and local media outlets.
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.
Nearly 65 percent of Pinduoduo users come from Tier 3 cities or smaller, against just 50.1 percent of users for another e-commerce major JD, according to Jiguang Big Data.
Sammartino said they will focus on tier one, two to three cities and will invest in the Chinese market through their online and offline platforms.
"As for their future plans in China, Chen said: "We will hasten our business development in China and continue to expand our business in first and second - tier cities - such as Wuhan and Hangzhou - to increase our product lines. "
Deckers will chase sales growth through a plan to double the number of existing stores across tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3 cities in three years.
Nearly half of the new stores will be opened in tier 3 or 4 cities in China.
"The cold chains for delivering pasteurized milk are not strong so far even in first and second tier cities not to mention in third and fourth-tier cities," Song said.
Speaking to reporters at a media briefing after an annual general meeting on Monday, IHH's managing director and chief executive officer Tan See Leng said the group's strategy in China is hub and spot model, which expands its healthcare business by building hospitals in tier one cities, supported by smaller medical centers and facilities.
"We have decided to include more playgrounds for children in our restaurants in lower tier cities as we've noticed that having a meal at a McDonald's in such places is a family affair," Cheung said.
Another analyst said Starbucks is expanding to third tier cities.
Geographically, residents in the first tier cities attach greater importance to the dinner on the Spring Festival eve.
从地理角度来看，一线城市的居民更加重视春节除夕夜的晚餐。
The top three cities that attract job seekers are first-tier cities including Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, while new-first tier cities such as Hangzhou and Chengdu are welcoming more young adults, the report said.
Tier 3-5 cities saw a faster growth of 3.2 percent year-on-year, in comparison to the smaller growth of 2.5 percent of tier 1 to 2 cities based on data to 52 weeks ending Oct 8.
"China is our second largest market with abundant tourism resources, diversified consumer groups and a booming urban economy, so we will actively seize emerging development opportunities and develop markets in lower tier cities during the country's 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25)," said Qian Jin, president of Hilton Greater China and Mongolia.
Despite the likes of the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and Imperial College London improving or maintaining positions in the top tier, the UK has fallen from second to fourth place.
Dickinson said tourism authorities of the Middle Eastern country are adopting a "360-degree approach" to attract more foreign travelers from the "tier one" group markets, which cover some 24 countries.
In terms of popular overseas destinations, Thailand and Japan were in the first tier, receiving more than 10 percent of the outbound tourists.
The second tier contained Singapore and South Korea, which received 5 percent and 10 percent of the outbound tourists from the Chinese mainland.
"China has always been a vital market for Astellas' global growth and it has now risen to the top tier of Astellas' global strategic markets based on its strong performance and significance," said Hiroshi Hamaguchi, chairman and president of Astellas China.
But there are expectations of seeing more growth coming from third and fourth tier cities, it said.
报告指出，预计未来将看到更多来自三线和四线城市的增长。
Listing requirements of the Beijing stock exchange will remain the same as the NEEQ Select, the highest tier of the National Equities Exchange and Quotations system.
北京证券交易所的上市要求将保持不变，仍与全国中小企业股份转让系统（NEEQ）中的最高层级——精选层保持一致。
Additional companies to be listed on the new exchange will come from those who have been traded on NEEQ Innovation, the NEEQ's second-highest tier, for 12 months and meet related listing requirements.
新增加在新交易所上市的企业将来自已在新三板创新层挂牌满12个月且符合相关上市要求的公司。
Over 34.8 percent of students from third- and fourth-tier cities spend an average of two years on online education platforms, which is even slightly higher than the time spent in top tier cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
来自三、四线城市的34.8%以上的学生平均花费两年时间在在线教育平台上，甚至比在北京、上海、广州和深圳等一线城市花费的时间还要稍微多一些。
The real estate industry in major cities on the Chinese mainland is categorized into "transparent" tier, among the top global improvers, based on quantification of 210 elements of transparency.
中国内地主要城市的房地产行业被归类为“透明”级别，在全球进步最大的行列中，这是基于对210个透明度要素的量化分析得出的。
"Our data show that during the first quarter of this year, young consumers and residents in lower tier cities are more willing to spend and not too worried by the downturn in consumption due to the COVID-19 epidemic," Yu said.
Compared to last year, the four top tier cities reported growth of 3.8 percent and 2.2 percent in their new and existing home prices, respectively.
Over the past three years, the gap in e-commerce penetration between upper and lower tier cities has narrowed, with 75.7 percent of shoppers in lower tier cities using e-commerce to buy FMCG products.
As China's top tier markets have become saturated, more growth is expected to come from lower tier cities this year.
Compared to last year, the four top tier cities saw a 4.9 percent growth in their new home prices in November on a yearly basis.
The data company attributed the remarkable surge to the rising services of direct flights provided to link more Chinese cities, especially those of the second tier, to long-haul tourism markets.
Compared to last year, the four top tier cities saw 4.4 percent and 0.2 percent growth in their new and existing home prices.
"Transaction and price in first- and second-tier cities will stay at a level similar to last year, but due to limited demand, third- and fourth- tier cities will be challenged in 2019," Yao said.
Real estate purchases, especially homes, by women professionals rose sharply in 2018 in the top tier cities of China and reshaped the sales strategies of some developers, a new industry report said.
Among the young parents who are currently living in a rented house in first tier cities, 24 percent said pressure from higher rents was a major concern.
In the white liquor sector, the second tier of high-end brands is expected to see rapid sales during the fourth quarter, following on from the solid performance during the third quarter, according to a report from Founder Securities.
根据方正证券的一份报告，在白酒行业，继第三季度的良好表现之后，第二梯队的高端品牌预计在第四季度将迎来快速销售增长。
Investors in third and fourth tier markets have a stronger will to partake in franchising compared to first and second tier cities, according to the report.
WeRide has formed a strategic partnership with Bosch, the top Tier 1 vendor for automotive OEMs, to codevelop advanced Level 2 and Level 3 autonomous driving products, which are set to launch this year.
Focused on the mid-to-high end market, being the largest and fastest-growing segment in China, Leapmotor delivered around 111,000 NEV units in 2022, putting it into the first tier among China's NEV makers.
"Our weakness lies in brand awareness, as IM Motors has not quickly risen to the top tier of EV startups within the past two years but belongs to the upper level of the second tier.
SAIC-GM-Wuling said its popular Hongguang Mini EV is "tailor-made for young women in tier four-to-five cities and towns".
Wuling said its popular Hongguang Mini EV is "tailor-made for young women in tier four-to-five cities and towns".
WeRide has formed a strategic partnership with Bosch, the top Tier 1 vendor for automotive OEMs, to co-develop advanced Level 2 and Level 3 autonomous driving products, which are set to launch this year.
Oppo said the solution is available for scooters and cars and it has so far more than 70 partners, covering carmakers, scooter makers, tier 1 suppliers and mobility service providers.
But most of the demands still scattered among the low tier cities.
Momenta sells software to tier 1 suppliers and carmakers, which brings in income and mountains of data that feeds back into its algorithms at relatively low cost.
"Such a difference in sales volumes says little when there is an all-out war involving all product segments and covering tier one to tier four cities," he said.
Beyond its successful partnerships with various global top tier passenger vehicle manufacturers, CATL is also accelerating electrification in the commercial vehicle sector.
"In recent years, 58. com has been penetrating into lower tier cities as well.
This is aligned with our strategic focus on cross-regional transactions and the expansion of our service network into lower tier cities across China," said Dai, highlighting its partner's huge volume of targeted used car traffic and a large user base.
The base was initiated by Guizhou-based HanKaiSi Intelligent Technology Co, online educational organization Udacity Inc and software company Tier IV Inc.
该基地由贵州汉铠思智能科技有限公司、在线教育机构优达学城（Udacity Inc）以及软件公司Tier IV Inc共同发起建立。
Also among the top reasons were government subsidies and easy access to license plates, which can be hard to get hold of in first tier cities.
Liu Shijin, former deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council, said earlier this year that customers in lower tier Chinese cities, including third-tier and lower categories, are becoming a new source of power that is driving the Chinese new car market.
Synchronizing with burgeoning new energy vehicle users, BMW has laid a solid ground for the e-mobility ecosystem with the charging networks, the largest private charging installation service network in 100 cities in China, covering 90 percent of tier 1-3 cities.
This year, the BMW users will see nearly 50 percent growth in the public charging network (2,500 pillars in 15 cities), and a more extensive BMW i and PHEV dealer network in tier 1-3 cities.
"This tool is being designed to assist staff in what are known as tier one facilities," Wu told China Daily.
The bank's capital indicators are also excellent, with its core Tier 1 capital adequacy ratio positioned at the upper level among comparable peers, reaching 9.73 percent in Q3 2023.
As of the end of the second quarter, the Tier 1 capital adequacy ratio — which represents the core equity assets of a bank or financial institution — of Chinese commercial banks was 11.78 percent, higher than the average of 8.98 percent in the US banking sector in 2022 despite a downtrend.
Banks with relatively smaller assets and cross-border business are categorized under the second tier.
The main problem currently faced by many small and medium-sized banks is the need to replenish core Tier 1 capital.
According to the new regulations, banks with a large asset size or relatively larger cross-border business activity are classified as Tier 1, and the capital regulatory measures for them will be in line with international standards.
Tier 1 banks are required to disclose a complete set of reports.
Banks with relatively smaller asset and cross-border business sizes are classified as Tier 2.
Banks with assets of less than 10 billion yuan ($1.46 billion) each are classified as Tier 3.
The CBIRC said it will further simplify capital measurements for Tier 3 banks and guide them to focus on serving the economy at the county level and small businesses.
Banks with a large asset size or relatively larger cross-border business are classified as Tier 1, and the capital regulatory measures for them will be in line with international rules.
Tier 1 banks are required to disclose a complete set of reports, in order to enhance risk information transparency and market discipline.
The CBIRC said it will further simplify capital measurement for Tier 3 banks and guide them to focus on serving the county economy and small businesses.
As of the end of June, their average core tier 1 capital adequacy ratio was 10.7 percent, up 0.14 percentage points from the same period last year.
Moreover, regulators should also relax restrictions on market access for small and mid-size banks, support them to issue preferred shares, perpetual bonds, convertible bonds and tier 2 capital bonds, and increase efforts to support more quality small and mid-size banks to have priority over others in going public, Dong said.
Through the introduction of strategic investors and more capital, Huarong will replenish its core tier 1 capital, enhance its capital regulatory indicators and shareholder structure, improve its risk resistance capacity and consolidate the foundations of sustainable development, said Wang Wenjie, executive director and vice-president of Huarong AMC.
The BSE was modeled after the NEEQ Select, which is the highest tier of the nine-year-old National Equities Exchange Quotations, launched in 2013 to help smaller companies with lower market liquidity find investors.
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