Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, celebrates the end of winter and the coming of spring by marking the beginning of the new year on the lunisolar Chinese calendar. This year ...

Earlier, Iowa friends including Luca Berrone, Gary Dvorchak, Sarah Lande, former US ambassador to China Terry Branstad and Kenneth Quinn, former president of the World Food Prize Foundation, signed ...

Xi made the remark in a Chinese New Year greeting card that was sent on Monday in reply to 58 friends in the US state of Iowa with his best wishes for Spring Festival, which falls on Wednesday.