A combined kickoff for the '2016 Happy Chinese New Year' celebration and the '2016 Chinese New Year Festival & Market Day' was held in Auckland on Jan 23.
A "Happy Chinese New Year" concert was held at the Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto on Jan 24. The Chinese Artists Society of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children organized the concert.
A promotion combining the dance drama The Silk Road on the Sea and a seminar on Chinese and European culture was held at the European Institute of Asian Studies in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan 25.
Staff excavate the Luhun Rong tomb in Yichuan county, Luoyang city, Henan province, Jan 23, 2016.[
Artists from Liaoning province staged a performance at the Grand National Theater in Dakar, Senegal, Jan 25. Around 1,000 people packed the theatre for the "2016 Happy Chinese New Year" performance hosted by the Ministry of Culture of China and other Chinese authorities.
'2016 Happy Chinese New Year' launched in Seoul on Jan 26. The event features Chinese arts, folk music, opera, fashion, books and cuisine.
March marks the start of the China-Latin America Culture Year, a program that will boost cultural exchanges between China and nearly 30 Latin American countries.
According to the Ministry of Culture, 4 enterprises have had the title of “National Cultural Industry Demonstration Base” revoked.
An opening ceremony of 2016 China and Qatar Cultural Year was held in Doha on Sunday. Chinese Minister of Culture Luo Shugang, Qatari Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari, and Ambassador of China to Qatar Li Chen attended the function.
The Memorandum of Understanding on setting up a China Cultural Center in Morocco was signed by the director of China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage Liu Yuzhu and Morocco's culture secretary Mohammed Amin Sybi on Jan 21 in Rabat.
Performances were staged on Jan 23 in the Maltese capital city of Valletta to inaugurate celebrations for the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year, which falls on February 8 this year.
Fifteen meter-long Spring Festival couplets were put up at the Zhonghuamen Gate of Nanjing's city wall.