Chinese Spring Festival Gala “Celebrating all over the world and welcoming the Winter Olympics” in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, January 30, 2022 – The 2nd CCTV Global Loving-China Poetry Spring Festival Gala in California and American Chinese Spring Festival Gala was held on January 29 at the San Gabriel Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is imminent, and the elements of the Winter Olympics had become a highlight of this year’s Spring Festival Gala.
Zhang Ping, Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, and Congresswoman Judy Chu attended the gala and delivered speeches to extend New Year wishes to the Chinese community.
Zhang Ping, Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Los Angeles
Zhang Ping, Consul General of the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, said in his speech that the Chinese New Year and the Beijing Winter Olympics are coming soon. This Gala gathered more than 70 overseas Chinese American organizations to express the joy of the overseas Chinese for the Spring Festival and their expectations for the Winter Olympics in the form of the Spring Festival Gala. He and Deputy Consul General Li Chunlin were very happy to gather with overseas Chinese to celebrate the Chinese New Year and welcome the Beijing Winter Olympics.
He said that recently, the overseas Chinese held a series of colorful activities to welcome the Chinese New Year and celebrate the Winter Olympics, and everyone worked together to support each other, which reflected the positive spirit of the overseas Chinese in Southern California and the spirit of unity and cooperation.
Edward Chenghua Cai, ,Chairman of the gala organizing committee (President of the Southern California Chinese-American Federation)
Cai Chenghua, Chairman of the Organizing Committee and President of the Southern California Chinese-American Federation, said in his speech that we gathering together tonight to welcome the Spring Festival, wish a bright future, and celebrate the Beijing Winter Olympics. This is a joyous event for the overseas Chinese in Southern California. “On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to extend my sincere welcome to all the distinguished guests. At the same time, I would like to thank the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, elected officials, and the overseas Chinese academic community for their strong support. Pay tribute to the artists and groups, international students, volunteer groups and working teams who have worked hard for tonight’s event. ” he said.
This Spring Festival Gala is co-organized by the local overseas Chinese group in the United States and Chinese associations in other countries overseas. Through two completely different online and offline programs, it will show everyone that the spring of 2022, when everything will recover and everything will be revived, is coming. At the same time, the Spring Festival Gala audition program will break through the consistent style of the past Spring Festival Gala, and gather new elements such as the United States, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, South Korea, and Japan, and gather the characteristics of various ethnic groups, regional cultures and the beauty of the colorful civilizations of the world.
US Overseas Student Union (USOSU)
Jiaming Gavin Guo, Chinese 1st-tier actor
From Left: Andy Zhang, Edward Cai, Gavin Guo, James Xu
Students and professor from UCLA, USC, PPD, ULV
US Overseas Student Union (USOSU)