Upbeat song, dance performance showcases China's sci-tech advancements at Spring Festival Gala

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Upbeat song, dance performance showcases China's sci-tech advancements at Spring Festival Gala

2026-02-16 21:20 Last Updated At：23:47

An upbeat song highlighting China's cutting-edge tech advancements lit up the stage of the China Media Group (CMG)'s 2026 Spring Festival Gala televised on Monday.

The song, named "Intelligent Manufacturing Future," incorporated a host of high-tech elements which including robot dancers, virtual reality (VR) glasses, the BeiDou satellite navigation system, and drone technology into an entertaining song-and-dance arrangement.

Featuring singers accompanied by a futuristic looking dance troupe, the segment also hailed the wealth of cutting-edge products and gadgets being produced by Chinese manufacturers and innovators which are changing everyday life, and included English-language lyrics around the theme: "We are made in China."

The Spring Festival, or the Chinese New Year, is the most important traditional holiday for the Chinese people, and watching the Spring Festival Gala, also known as "Chunwan," is a cherished part of the celebrations every year in hundreds of millions of Chinese homes.

Since first being broadcast in 1983, the gala has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the most-watched annual television program on the planet.

The Spring Festival itself was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2024.

The 2026 Spring Festival falls on Tuesday this year, ushering in the Year of the Horse.

Police deploy 24-hour drone patrols during football matches in south China's Shenzhen

Police in Shenzhen City of south China's Guangdong Province have deployed 24-hour drone patrols around the Shenzhen Sports Center to enhance public safety control during the 2026 Chinese Super League season.

The Shenzhen Xinpengcheng Football Club has officially made the Shenzhen Sports Center its home ground for the 2026 Chinese Super League season. Football matches have attracted more than 10,000 fans per match, leading to intense crowd density and severe traffic congestion, which places immense pressure on security.

Amid the excitement of tens of thousands, the calmest "guards" aren't in the stands, but stationed over 100 meters above, in the sky.

Before a match began, police officer Wang Yiyuan and two teammates would be already deployed with well-defined roles: one would pilot the drones, another would keep an eye on the spectrogram to monitor the drone activity, and the third would coordinate with other ground police via his walkie-talkie.

Just before the end of the second half, a sudden alert for crowd flow popped up at the south square, where a large number of spectators had begun to gather as they leave the site. As this area served as the only passage for leaving the stadium, the crowd pressure could easily lead to a stampede.

From the initial alert to the loudspeaker broadcast and then to the arrival of police reenforcements on the scene, it took Wang and his colleagues just three minutes to complete the communication, and the crowds began to disperse.