Spring Festival garden party opens at Old Summer Palace in Beijing
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
People visit the floral fair of a Spring Festival garden party at the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 7, 2026. The four-day Spring Festival garden party opened here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
A staff member displays newly launched horse-head plush toys during a Spring Festival garden party at the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 7, 2026. The four-day Spring Festival garden party opened here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
A calligrapher writes spring couplets and Chinese character “Fu” (meaning good fortune) for visitors during a Spring Festival garden party at the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 7, 2026. The four-day Spring Festival garden party opened here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
People experience flower arranging with the guidance of a teacher during a Spring Festival garden party at the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 7, 2026. The four-day Spring Festival garden party opened here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
A visitor takes photos of cultural and creative products for the Year of the Horse during a Spring Festival garden party at the Old Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 7, 2026. The four-day Spring Festival garden party opened here on Saturday. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)
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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.…
