This year's traditional Chinese New Year and the Tibetan New Year, the most important festivals for Han Chinese and Tibetans, both fall on Feb. 14. Traditional goods for the Chinese New Year such as the Chinese knots, red lanterns and tiger toys, are very popular among the residents.
A park in Yongji city, North China's Shanxi province, was decorated with more than 10,000 red lanterns to celebrate the Spring Festival which falls on Feb. 14, 2010.
Nearly 100 sets of artistic lanterns that reflect folktales and traditional custom are presented in a latern art festival in Yunnan.
In London, red lanterns are lighting up the entire Chinatown. In Jakarta, tigers and company are taking center stage in the city. From San Francisco to Sao Paulo, from Malta to Malaysia, not only the Chinese, but people from all nations are joining the celebrations for the upcoming Chinese New Year.
A flower fair staged over the weekend in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown is heralding the start of a flurry of celebrations of the Chinese New Year throughout the month in the U.S. city, which boasts the largest Chinese community outside of Asia.
China's railway network has transported 5.03 million passengers as of February 6, the eighth day of the country's annual Spring Festival transport peak lasting from January 30 to March 10 this year, said the Ministry of Railways (MOR) Sunday.
Chinese actors perform dragon dance during the "Happy Chinese Lunar New Year" celebration.
The folk dance was a prelude of a series of cultural celebrations for the Chinese triditional Spring Festival, or new year on Chinese lunar calendar.
The Zhejiang Federation of Trade Unions, Sichuan Federation of Trade Unions and Sichuan Airlines joined together to arrange three free charter flights from Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou to Chengdu to send the migrant workers who worked in Zhejiang back to their hometown Sichuan for Chinese New Year.
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A task force of 1,500 special police officers has been dispatched to help maintain the smooth flow of travelers at the southern Guangzhou Railway Station ahead of the Spring Festival, a local newspaper reported Thursday.
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