A Global Celebration for Chinese People Everywhere
BEIJING, Jan. 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Spring Festival this year will be the first since the traditional celebrations were listed as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. China Media Group will mark the occasion – the start of the Year of the Snake – with a special gala highlighting the holiday's growing influence around the world.
"Festival of Spring 2025: A Worldwide Celebration of Chinese New Year" will comprise three chapters: "A Shared Spring", "Spirit of the Overseas Chinese" and "Greetings for the New Year". As part of the rich and varied program, there will be songs and dances reflecting the sense of missing home felt by Chinese people, old and young, living overseas, and their memories of past Spring Festivals. Among the performers will be famous artists Tsai Chin and Chiang Yu-Heng. Also appearing will be representatives of the Chinese communities in the US, Australia and Russia, as well as foreign guests who will describe the New Year celebrations in their own countries. Short video creator Li Ziqi will highlight the traditional aspects of the holiday and share her unique insights into the work of preserving China's intangible cultural heritage.
Once celebrated mainly just in China, Spring Festival is now a major holiday for people across the globe. "Festival of Spring 2025: A Worldwide Celebration of the Chinese New Year" will be broadcast at 7:30 pm (Beijing Time) on January 29 on CCTV 4.
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The CCTV4 "Festival of Spring 2025" Gala
GUANGZHOU, China, Jan. 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, GAC's independently developed Quark E-Drive power domain control system has achieved the world's first dual certification for deeply integrated ASIL D functional safety and information security, accredited by DAkkS, Germany's national accreditation body. The certification was evaluated and issued by SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services Co., Ltd. (SGS), a globally recognized certification authority.
ISO 26262 is the internationally recognized core standard for automotive functional safety. Within this framework, ASIL D represents the highest automotive safety integrity level, requiring near-zero tolerance for safety-critical failures. Achieving an ASIL D certification accredited by DAkkS signifies that the certified product meets the highest globally accepted standards for automotive safety.
The certified Quark E-Drive power domain control system has been in production use since February 2025, and is now deployed across multiple models under GAC's brands - HYPTEC and AION. As the industry's first electric drive power domain system based on deep integration using a single main control chip, the solution significantly reduces chip count, minimizes risks associated with chip-level failures, and boosts motor controller efficiency to as high as 99.9%. The certification confirms that GAC has completed the system's full product development lifecycle in strict compliance with ISO 26262:2018 functional safety and ISO/SAE 21434:2021 information security standards.
Throughout the project, GAC Technology Research Center worked closely with SGS experts, strengthening safety design across all development phases while ensuring engineering feasibility and an optimal user experience.
Zhao Hui, Vice President of SGS China, commented: "The successful certification highlights GAC's strong team and robust development systems. We are pleased to support the safety of the Quark E-Drive and look forward to closer collaboration."
This milestone represents a major breakthrough for GAC in e-drive safety and sets a new global benchmark for the intelligent electric vehicle industry.
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GAC's Quark Electric Drive Achieves the World's First DAkkS ASIL D Functional Safety and Information Security Dual Certification
