The 2017 Happy Chinese New Year celebrations kicked off in Benin's political capital Porto-Novo on Sunday, featuring a grand parade and performances.
Thousands of locals and Chinese people attended the 2017 Happy Chinese New Year event in Hungary, a temple fair in Budapest on Jan 21.
A Chinese New Year concert was held in Vienna, Austria, on Jan 15, marking the start of 2017 Happy Chinese New Year celebrations in the country.
A Chinese opera gala was held in Toronto to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year. Consul-general Xue Bing from the Consulate General of China in Toronto and about 600 government officials and representatives from China and Canada attended the gala on Jan 15.
Artists from Sichuan province put on a series of performances to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Jan 18.
A Chinese Lunar New Year gala was held in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Jan 16. About 800 government officials, representatives and local people attended the event.
Chinese musicians have performed a New Year concert Listen to China in Madrid on the first leg of a tour of Spain on Jan 13.
The 2017 Happy Chinese New Year temple fair was held in Vientiane in Laos from Jan 14 to 15. The two-day event attracted some 4,000 visitors and about a hundred government officials and representatives from China and Laos attended the opening ceremony.
In celebration of the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year and the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Kazakhstan, the 2017 Happy Chinese New Year concert was held in Almaty on Jan 12.
As a prelude to a series of celebratory events to welcome the upcoming lunar New Year, a special exhibition featuring Chinese paper-cut artworks is being staged in Valletta, the capital city and cultural hub of Malta.
The first Chinese Books Center in Switzerland has opened at the University of Zurich. The center was built to make Chinese books more accessible to readers in Switzerland and help local people discover more about Chinese culture and developments.
The China Cultural Center in Benin has been recognized at the 8th Agogo International Dance Festival. Benin's tourism and culture minister Ange N'Koue presented the Special Contribution Award to the center at the festival's end on Tuesday, thanking the Chinese government for its contribution to the development of Benin's culture industry.