Chinese leaders extend Spring Festival greetings to retired senior officials

A student from the Confucius Institute at Azerbaijan University of Languages performs Chinese poetry recitation during a Chinese New Year cultural event at Baku Book Center in Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 11, 2026. The Confucius Institute at Azerbaijan University of Languages hosted a Chinese New Year cultural event here on Wednesday.

Tourists watch waist drum performance at a night market in Dunhuang, northwest China's Gansu Province, Feb. 12, 2026. Various festive events are held across China to celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year of the Horse.

People shop for Chinese New Year decorations at a market in Jiande City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 13, 2026. Markets across the country are bustling nowadays as people flock there to stock up on goods in preparation for the upcoming Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year.

As the 2026 Chinese New Year, the Year of the Horse, approaches, China's outbound tourism market is poised for a boom driven by an unusually long holiday and growing demand for cross-border travel, while the Asia-Pacific region, from Southeast Asian hubs like Thailand and Cambodia to Australia's sun-soaked shores, stands to reap huge rewards.

South China's tech hub of Shenzhen, home to the leading global drone maker DJI, has to date opened a total of 310 low-altitude logistics routes, with 82 new routes added in 2025, according to the ongoing annual session of the municipal people's congress.