Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival opens in Shanghai
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A woman wearing traditional costumes visits the Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, Jan. 26, 2026. The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival, which opened here on Monday, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
People visit the Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, Jan. 26, 2026. The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival, which opened here on Monday, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
People visit the Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, Jan. 26, 2026. The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival, which opened here on Monday, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
Lantern installations are seen at the Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, Jan. 26, 2026. The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival, which opened here on Monday, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
People visit the Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, Jan. 26, 2026. The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival, which opened here on Monday, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
People visit the Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, Jan. 26, 2026. The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival, which opened here on Monday, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
People visit the Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden in east China’s Shanghai, Jan. 26, 2026. The Yuyuan Garden Lantern Festival, which opened here on Monday, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration. (Xinhua/Liu Ying)
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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.…
