A lively scene on the first day of the Lunar New Year on Yaowarat Road, Chinatown, Bangkok, Thailand. (*Courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in Thailand).
Bangkok, China, Feb. 14 (Reporter Yang Wanli) During the Spring Festival, Thailand's 2024 "Happy New Year" ignited a lively and festive New Year atmosphere across Thailand.
On the evening of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Bangkok's Chinatown is full of people.
With joy and joy in the New Year and the auspiciousness and harmony of "China and Thailand as a family". The opening ceremony of the "Happy New Year" event was held here. In the following days, lion and dragon dances and joyful lanterns continued to decorate the festivities.
Her Royal Highness Princess Sirindhorn attended the ceremony and presided over the opening ceremony. Thai Prime Minister Saita, Minister of Tourism and Sports Sudarwan, Minister of Culture Sensa, Mayor of Bangkok Chacha, Chinese Ambassador to Thailand Han Zhiqiang, Minister Wu Zhiwu and others attended the event.
Her Royal Highness Princess Sirindhorn attended the ceremony and presided over the opening ceremony. (*Courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in Thailand).
Ambassador Han Zhiqiang delivered a speech at the ceremony, extending his high respect and sincere New Year wishes to Princess Sirindhorn. Ambassador Han said that the celebration of the Spring Festival is a vivid embodiment of the family relationship between China and Thailand, and the "Happy New Year" activity has become an important platform and link for the Chinese and Thai people to celebrate the festival together after 20 years.
"2024 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the sixth birthday of King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand is a particularly celebrated and meaningful year," he said. China specially sent art troupes from the autonomous region and Fujian Province to visit Thailand to send the best wishes of the Chinese people to the Thai people with their exquisite singing and dancing art. Next year will usher in the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand, and China-Thailand relations stand at a new historical starting point. China is willing to work with Thailand to build on the past and forge ahead into the future, continuously enhance friendship and political mutual trust between the two peoples, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields between the two countries, and jointly build a China-Thailand community with a shared future to better benefit the Chinese and Thai peoples. ”
The Mayor of Bangkok, Chacha, said in his speech that the celebration of the Spring Festival is a beautiful cultural tradition inherited by the people of Thailand and China. Over the past 20 years, with the strong support of China**, the Chinese Embassy in Thailand, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports of Thailand, the National Tourism Administration, and the Chinese merchants of Yaowarat Road have participated in the "Happy New Year" celebration, aiming to wish Thailand, China and the people of the two countries auspicious and prosperous. This year, China ** specially selected outstanding Chinese art troupes to Thailand to participate in the "Happy Spring Festival" performance, which will promote Thai Chinese exchanges, and will also promote tourism cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
At the ceremony, Princess Sirindhorn presented hand-drawn "Year of the Dragon" New Year greeting cards to Chinese and Thai guests such as Ambassador Han Zhiqiang and Prime Minister Saita, and enjoyed the wonderful performances of Chinese and Thai artists. Accompanied by the noisy gongs and drums of the dragon dance team, Princess Sirindhorn held the golden dragon ball to open the 2024 "Happy New Year" in Thailand.
After the ceremony, Princess Sirindhorn, accompanied by Prime Minister Saita and Ambassador Han, visited a series of Spring Festival booths and specialty shops along Yaowarat Road Chinatown with great interest to celebrate the Year of the Dragon with the people.
*: China**Net.
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