BEIJING: China’s Communist Party has found a new way to court technology-savvy web users, setting phrases by President Xi Jinping as the password for electronic “red envelopes” of online cash offered ahead of the Lunar New Year.
In China, elderly family members traditionally give children red envelopes of cash, known as lucky money, during the holiday – which starts on Monday – to wish them good fortune in the coming year.
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