CCTV News: The Spring Festival contains the Chinese people’s hope for a better life, embodies the Chinese people’s feelings for a country, and has become a symbol of Chinese culture that is generally recognized and appreciated by the world. As the Spring Festival of the Year of the Snake approaches, the New Year atmosphere is getting stronger and stronger. Many countries in the Middle East have held colorful celebrations to welcome the arrival of the New Year.

From the 10th to the 11th local time, the "2025 New Year Collection" event of the Chinese Embassy in Saudi Arabia was held at the Riyadh Cultural Palace, the capital of Saudi Arabia, to celebrate the first "intangible cultural heritage version" of the Chinese Spring Festival, displaying Chinese culture in multiple directions, and grandly kickstarting the China-Saudi Cultural Year. Wonderful lion dance, folk music, martial arts and other performances, interesting traditional entertainment activities, and the warm and peaceful Overture of the Taiwan Spring Festival Gala gathered together to show the cultural charm of the Chinese Spring Festival to local people and international friends.

Saudi Chinese learner Nayf: "Today I brought my Saudi friends to this event to let them see the culture of China, because in my heart, China is full of infinite charm. Its history is profound and profound, its culture is vast and spiritual, and China deeply attracts me."

On the 11th local time, the 11th UAE Overseas Chinese Spring Festival Gala was grandly held in Dubai. During the more than three-hour performance, more than a thousand actors and artists from many places around the world combined Chinese traditional culture with modern art through various forms such as poetry singing, dance performances, and guqin performances, demonstrating the family and country feelings of overseas Chinese and their expectations for a better life in the future. The debut of the promotional video of China Central Radio and Television’s "2025 Spring Festival Gala" became a highlight of the party that day and attracted the attention of a large number of overseas audiences.

Huang Wei, a local overseas Chinese in the UAE: "Every year on New Year's Eve, we will wait for the broadcast of the Central Station Spring Festival Gala at the UAE. This is an indispensable "food". This successful application for the Spring Festival Gala during the Spring Festival has made us look forward to the "New Year's Eve dinner" of the Spring Festival Gala. We look forward to the wonderful Spring Festival Gala at the Year of the Snake this time, and we will get better and better."

Recently, the Chinese Embassy in Iran held a New Year reception for "Warm Spring and Celebrate the Chinese New Year", with more than 100 local overseas Chinese, employees of Chinese-funded institutions, and more than 100 people attended. In his speech, Cong Peiwu, Chinese Ambassador to Iran, said that the Spring Festival contains the Chinese people's hope for a better life, embodies the Chinese people's feelings for a country, reflects the common value of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and has become a Chinese cultural symbol that is generally recognized and appreciated by the world.

Chinese Ambassador to Iran Cong Peiwu: "The successful application for the Chinese New Year's World Heritage is a pragmatic action to implement the global civilization initiative and promote exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations. It will effectively promote harmonious coexistence between different civilizations, promote people of all countries to know each other, build a bridge for exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations, and contribute more cultural strength to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind."