On 9 February, H.E. Consul General Wang Yu attended the Opening Ceremony of the Lunar Sea & Happy Chinese New Year Celebration. Wang Shuyu, Counsellor-rank Consul for cultural affairs, Ban Huaqin, Deputy Director of Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanette Louchart-Flecher, Head of Programs and Activation of the Australian National Maritime Museum, Liu Dong, Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Sydney and other guests attended the opening ceremony.

Wang Yu extended Happy Chinese New Year greetings to the guests on behalf of Consulate-General of People’s Republic of China in Sydney. The Happy Chinese New Year Celebrations allows Australian people and tourists from all over the world to experience Chinese Spring Festival culture, enhances cultural exchanges between China and Australia, and contributes to the further development of friendly bilateral relations between China and NSW.

Artists and intangible cultural heritage inheritors from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region performed folk songs and dances, and demonstrations of Zhuang brocade, embroidery ball, woodblock printing and other Chinese cultural experience were presented.