Foreign students embrace festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year in Chongqing
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
An Algerian student displays a lucky bag made during an event held in Banan District of Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Feb. 3, 2026. As the Spring Festival approaches, Banan District of Chongqing Municipality hosted a “Laowai@Chongqing” event. “Laowai” is a Chinese slang term meaning “foreigners”.
Twenty international students gathered to engage in an immersive experience of local traditional cultural practices such as Mudong folk songs, paper cutting, and glutinous rice cake making, embracing the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 17 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
Foreign students experience paper cutting under the instruction of a teacher during an event held in Banan District of Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Feb. 3, 2026. As the Spring Festival approaches, Banan District of Chongqing Municipality hosted a “Laowai@Chongqing” event. “Laowai” is a Chinese slang term meaning “foreigners”.
Twenty international students gathered to engage in an immersive experience of local traditional cultural practices such as Mudong folk songs, paper cutting, and glutinous rice cake making, embracing the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 17 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
Foreign students experience glutinous rice cake making during an event held in Banan District of Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Feb. 3, 2026. As the Spring Festival approaches, Banan District of Chongqing Municipality hosted a “Laowai@Chongqing” event. “Laowai” is a Chinese slang term meaning “foreigners”.
Twenty international students gathered to engage in an immersive experience of local traditional cultural practices such as Mudong folk songs, paper cutting, and glutinous rice cake making, embracing the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 17 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
Foreign students visit a museum in Banan District of Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Feb. 3, 2026. As the Spring Festival approaches, Banan District of Chongqing Municipality hosted a “Laowai@Chongqing” event. “Laowai” is a Chinese slang term meaning “foreigners”.
Twenty international students gathered to engage in an immersive experience of local traditional cultural practices such as Mudong folk songs, paper cutting, and glutinous rice cake making, embracing the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 17 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
Foreign students experience Mudong folk songs under the instruction of an intangible heritage inheritor (1st R) during an event held in Banan District of Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Feb. 3, 2026. As the Spring Festival approaches, Banan District of Chongqing Municipality hosted a “Laowai@Chongqing” event. “Laowai” is a Chinese slang term meaning “foreigners”.
Twenty international students gathered to engage in an immersive experience of local traditional cultural practices such as Mudong folk songs, paper cutting, and glutinous rice cake making, embracing the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 17 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
Foreign students experience traditional soy milk making during an event held in the Banan District of Chongqing Municipality, southwest China, Feb. 3, 2026. As the Spring Festival approaches, the Banan District of Chongqing Municipality hosted a “Laowai@Chongqing” event. “Laowai” is a Chinese slang term meaning “foreigners”.
Twenty international students gathered to engage in an immersive experience of local traditional cultural practices such as Mudong folk songs, paper cutting, and glutinous rice cake making, embracing the festive atmosphere of the Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb. 17 this year. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
