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Although the Spring Festival used to be a low season for inbound travel, this year, more international tourists flew in to experience the country's most important time for family reunions.
As the Year of the Horse approaches, festive greetings across China are filled with idioms referring to this auspicious zodiac animal, in conveying good wishes.
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.
China's Spring Festival has long been described as the world's largest annual migration. Increasingly, however, the travel rush functions as more than a transport challenge. It has become a high-density platform for cultural distribution, where mobility, leisure time and seasonal spending converge.
The "becoming Chinese" trend probably isn't about changing identity or citizenship. More likely, it reflects quiet appreciation for the social rhythms and values that underpin life in China today.
Today's young Chinese prefer to celebrate the festival in their own way. While they continue to honor traditional customs, they also "reinvent" some of them by adding more fun and fashionable elements.
With the Spring Festival just days away, China's annual rush to buy "nianhuo," or holiday goods, is offering a snapshot of an economy in transition, as younger shoppers are reshaping demand, imported products are becoming routine purchases and a government-backed trade-in program is unlocking new consumer spending.
Thanks to the increasingly widespread application of intelligent and efficient logistics equipment, items bearing good wishes for the Chinese New Year can now reach households more conveniently and swiftly than ever before.
The "Icebreakers" Chinese New Year Dinner 2026 was held in London on Friday, drawing around 500 representatives from the Chinese and British business communities and other sectors. The event was jointly hosted by the 48 Group, the China Chamber of Commerce in the UK, and the China-Britain Business Council.
As China advances comprehensive rural revitalization and bolsters food security, multinational agribusinesses are finding new impetus to deepen their engagement across the nation's extensive agricultural value chain -- from livestock breeding and feed supplies to product processing and rural services.
Beyond medals, the Olympic legacy has reshaped China's sports landscape, with indoor rinks and ski resorts flourishing across the south and an ice-and-snow industry poised to surpass 1 trillion yuan, redefining winter sports globally.
Deemah bint Yahya Al-Yahya, secretary-general of the Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), has commended China's digital economy expertise and voiced the organization's openness to collaborating with Chinese companies.
Official data showed that rural residents' per capita disposable income reached 24,456 yuan in 2025, up 6% year on year.
Early Monday, highways were already busy, while train stations and airports across China filled with travelers as the Spring Festival travel rush began ahead of the country's most important holiday.
Despite global uncertainties and domestic challenges, more Chinese cities and provinces crossed key gross domestic product (GDP) thresholds in 2025, underscoring the country's high-quality regional development and economic resilience.
Foreign institutions and global executives are striking a broadly upbeat tone on China's economy in 2026 and are increasingly confident about new opportunities generated by high-quality growth, citing the country's economic resilience, strong policy support and faster technology-driven transformation.
Figures from the Chinese government and international institutions show that China is, in reality, an undisputed global powerhouse in wind energy -- both in terms of total installed capacity and technological strength.
In China, the world's largest electricity consumer, one in every three kilowatt-hours of electricity comes from green energy sources, powering daily life, while reshaping the national and global energy and industrial landscapes, according to the National Energy Administration.
China's latest GDP figures show an economy holding firm in a troubled world. Growth in 2025 proved more resilient than many had expected. Yet the numbers point to something beyond mere endurance: they signal the early results of a strategic economic rebalancing that is increasingly the central theme of policy.
China's cultural diversity has become a vital resource for local economies seeking to tap the potential of the ice-and-snow tourism industry.
Over the past five years, China's foreign trade volume has successively surpassed the thresholds of 40 trillion yuan (about 5.71 trillion U.S. dollars) and 45 trillion yuan, hitting 45.47 trillion yuan in 2025. This marks nine consecutive years of foreign trade expansion since 2017, according to customs data.
China's automobile production and sales both exceeded 34 million units last year, setting a new record high, industry data showed on Wednesday, offering new cooperation opportunities and helping to establish a global win-win ecosystem in this sector.
With the China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges unfolding in 2026, China and Africa have ushered in a new chapter in civilizational dialogue, shaping shared development and future.
From chatbots to autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how work gets done in China, boosting efficiency while redrawing industrial boundaries. However, the shift has heightened concerns about job displacement, with workers ranging from assembly-line operators to designers and translators already feeling the pressure.
Together, China and Africa account for one-third of the world's population. Without their modernization, there will be no global modernization. Their shared pursuit of modernization is not only vital to their own development but also to global progress.
China has released a revised set of regulations on funeral and interment services, highlighting the importance of making related services more affordable and eco-friendly.
For much of the past decades, China's longest river, the Yangtze, bore the costs of the country's economic growth. Stretches of the 6,300-kilometer mother river were choked by polluted water, declining biodiversity and mounting disaster risks. However, that trajectory began to shift a decade ago.
Beyond immersive experiences of the country's natural scenery and cultural appeal, shopping in China is increasingly becoming an integral part of overseas visitors' travel itineraries. The resulting surge in inbound consumption underscores China's growing openness and the appeal of its cities, injecting new momentum into economic growth.
In 2025, China's humanoid robot industry moved from a phase of technological novelty to one of increasingly wide social deployment.
2025 was a year that a new image of China quietly unfolded before vast numbers of people in the world -- not through grand pronouncements, but through mundane online and real-life encounters.