The "Culture of China, Festival of Spring" Spring Festival Gala 2022 for Overseas Chinese was recorded in Changsha on the evening of January 22. The photo shows performers extending festive greetings and best wishes to overseas Chinese. (Photo/Yang Huafeng)

 

The "Culture of China, Festival of Spring" Spring Festival Gala 2022 for Overseas Chinese will be broadcasted on Hunan Satellite TV on February 1, the first day of the lunar New Year. It is hosted by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, and organized by the Information Office of the Hunan Provincial People’s Government, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the Hunan Provincial People's Government, and Hunan Broadcasting System.

 

Opera performance. (Photo/Yang Huafeng)

 

Focusing on the special Spring Festival amid the epidemic, this year's Spring Festival Gala for overseas Chinese showcases China's image and achievements through creative programmes. The gala features China’s responses to repeated epidemic waves of COVID-19, the launch of rural revitalization strategy, brilliant achievements of China's aerospace industry, the gold pocketing in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the to-be-start Beijing Winter Olympics, so as to proudly present the achievements of the motherland to overseas Chinese. This will help enhance the self-confidence, sense of pride, and cohesion of overseas Chinese around the world. Based on Chinese culture, the gala presents a cultural feast with great vitality and brings novel programmes integrating Chinese cultural elements such as opera, folk dance, and folk music. Festive greetings are to be expressed and traditional Chinese culture is to be promoted through the event.

This year's gala focuses on a Spring Festival Garden Party in Silicon Valley in the United States; interesting experience sharing of two Chinese roommates who have once returned to their ancestral homes to spend the Chinese New Year; moving stories of Lao overseas Chinese representatives contributing to rural revalidation in their hometown—Shaoyang; a letter from Zheng Fengrong, the first female Chinese athlete who broke a world record in 1957 as a high jumper to her grandson Zheng Enlai, an ice hockey player representing the national team in the 2022 Winter Olympics; and, Spring Festival wishes from three Shenzhou 13 crew who will spend the festival at the space station.

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Xiao Juan

Chinese source: China News