Spring Festival lantern show kicks off in Guangzhou
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
People visit the 2026 Guangzhou Spring Festival lantern show in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, Jan. 30, 2026. The event kicked off at the Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou on Friday, featuring 85 groups of distinctive lantern displays scattered throughout the ten major tourist areas of the entire park, and will last until March, 8. (Xinhua/Wang Ruiping)
People visit the 2026 Guangzhou Spring Festival lantern show in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, Jan. 30, 2026. The event kicked off at the Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou on Friday, featuring 85 groups of distinctive lantern displays scattered throughout the ten major tourist areas of the entire park, and will last until March, 8. (Xinhua/Wang Ruiping)
This photo taken on Jan. 30, 2026 shows a scene of the 2026 Guangzhou Spring Festival lantern show in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. The event kicked off at the Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou on Friday, featuring 85 groups of distinctive lantern displays scattered throughout the ten major tourist areas of the entire park, and will last until March, 8. (Xinhua/Wang Ruiping)
This photo taken on Jan. 30, 2026 shows a set of lanterns inspired by the Chinese zodiac horse during the 2026 Guangzhou Spring Festival lantern show in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. The event kicked off at the Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou on Friday, featuring 85 groups of distinctive lantern displays scattered throughout the ten major tourist areas of the entire park, and will last until March, 8. (Xinhua/Wang Ruiping)
This photo taken on Jan. 30, 2026 shows a view of the 2026 Guangzhou Spring Festival lantern show in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province. The event kicked off at the Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou on Friday, featuring 85 groups of distinctive lantern displays scattered throughout the ten major tourist areas of the entire park, and will last until March, 8. (Xinhua/Wang Ruiping)
People watch a Cantonese opera performance during the 2026 Guangzhou Spring Festival lantern show in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong Province, Jan. 30, 2026. The event kicked off at the Yuexiu Park in Guangzhou on Friday, featuring 85 groups of distinctive lantern displays scattered throughout the ten major tourist areas of the entire park, and will last until March, 8. (Xinhua/Wang Ruiping)
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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.…
