The 2025 Spring Festival web gala, produced by China Media Group (CMG), will meet the audience on Wednesday evening via TV, mobile apps and online platforms.
Starting at 20:00, the web gala will be broadcast on CCTV-1, CCTV-3, as well as multiple mobile apps, and web platforms.
This year's gala features an innovative combination of short drama plays and stage performances for the first time, to create an immersive experience and captivating audio-visual feast for the audience.
Eying the future and focusing on innovation, the gala witnesses the integration of technology and art, the collision of tradition and modernity, and the dialogue between the East and the West.
A wide array of cutting-edge technologies including AI, XR, VP and CG is applied in its production, contributing to this grand celebration particularly among the younger generation.
Watching the annual show has grown to be a new tradition, especially among younger viewers, to celebrate the Xiaonian Festival, also known as the Kitchen God Festival, which falls on Wednesday this year in northern China and marks the start of the countdown to the Chinese New Year.
The Spring Festival Web Gala has been held for 15 consecutive years since 2011, and has been highly loved by Chinese people.
CMG to broadcast 2025 Spring Festival Web Gala Wednesday
CMG to broadcast 2025 Spring Festival Web Gala Wednesday
CMG to broadcast 2025 Spring Festival Web Gala Wednesday
The 32nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting concluded in east China's Suzhou on Saturday, yielding fruitful results and laying significant groundwork for the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November.
The trade ministers' meeting focused on "building an open and predictable regional and multilateral economic and trade order" and "fostering new engines of innovative and dynamic trade and investment cooperation."
Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao briefed the media on the meeting's outcomes at a press conference.
Wang said the meeting issued a joint statement titled the Suzhou Statement, and approved the latest edition of the APEC Roadmap for Innovative, Competitive and Resilient Services.
All parties agreed to advance policy innovation and reform in services trade, build an open and predictable investment environment, improve regional trade facilitation and supply chain resilience, strengthen standards coordination, and enhance intellectual property protection, Wang told the media.
He also said that substantial progress was made on a framework document for regional digital trade cooperation and the ministers emphasized promoting inclusive AI development, strengthening AI-related trade, and bridging the digital divide to ensure shared benefits from digital transformation.
The minister noted that the outcomes of the meeting demonstrated strong cooperation willingness, highlighted an innovation-oriented approach, and reflected inclusiveness and shared benefits. "The fact that Asia-Pacific economies can come together, uphold the original aspiration of promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation while supporting economic growth and prosperity, and engage in in-depth discussions on the important issue of 'where multilateral and regional economic and trade cooperation is headed,' fully demonstrates that open regionalism and true multilateralism enjoy broad support, and that mutual success and shared development serve the fundamental interests of all economies," Wang said.
2026 APEC trade ministers' meeting concludes with fruitful results
