Lantern festival held in Chongqing to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
People visit a lantern festival at the Garden Expo Park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 30, 2026.
Lanterns at this festival in celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year were officially lit up on Friday, and the festival will last until March 22. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
Staff members in traditional costumes are pictured at a lantern festival at the Garden Expo Park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 30, 2026.
Lanterns at this festival in celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year were officially lit up on Friday, and the festival will last until March 22. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
People visit a lantern festival at the Garden Expo Park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 30, 2026.
Lanterns at this festival in celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year were officially lit up on Friday, and the festival will last until March 22. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
Staff members in traditional costumes interact with the visitors at a lantern festival at the Garden Expo Park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 30, 2026.
Lanterns at this festival in celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year were officially lit up on Friday, and the festival will last until March 22. (Xinhua/Chen Cheng)
A staff member in traditional costumes interacts with the visitors at a lantern festival at the Garden Expo Park in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, Jan. 30, 2026.
Lanterns at this festival in celebration of the upcoming Chinese New Year were officially lit up on Friday, and the festival will last until March 22. (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.…
