Jackie Chan’s star-studded 60th birthday had more celebrity appearances than Spring Festival Gala
Chan's celebration had more celebrity appearances than the Spring Festival Gala, guests say
China’s parliamentary sessions are known as the annual gathering of the country’s millionaire club. The April 7 birthday celebrations of Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan are widely regarded as another such gathering.
Hundreds of A-list film celebrities, mainland billionaires and K-pop stars showed up in the marathon celebration of the actor’s 60th birthday last week.
The five day party kicked off on April 6 with a charity concert in Beijing, which featured performances by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, Wang Lee-hom and Korean actress Kim Hee-sun.
The concert was eclipsed by a charity auction on the night of April 7 which attracted over a hundred celebrities, including award-winning director Feng Xiaogang, anchor-turned-producer Yang Lan and Jackie Ma Yun, chairman of Alibaba, the world’s biggest e-commerce company.
“It was more star-studded than the Spring Festival Gala,” state-owned China News Service quoted one of the guests present at the auction as saying.
The prizes of the auction, including a painting by Feng, calligraphy by comedian Zhao Benshan and a customized Louis Vuitton suicase featured in director Jiang Wen’s new film, were all sold to guests for over 70 million yuan, Guangdong-based magazine Southern Metropolis Entertainment Weekly reported. All of the sales were donated to the China Film Association.
The celebration in Hong Kong, a private event at Shaw’s Studio at Clearwater Bay that attracted over 100 local celebrities, marked the end of the 5-day party.