Chinese leaders attend New Year gala featuring traditional opera
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Chinese leaders attended a 2026 New Year gala featuring traditional opera on Tuesday evening in Beijing.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, as well as other Party and state leaders, including Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng, watched the show at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, alongside people from all walks of life.
The gala featured excerpts of classic operas and fine new creations showcasing the vibrant and diverse development of traditional Chinese opera.
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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.…
