KATHMANDU, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Artists from China made performances for overseas Chinese in the Nepali capital on Thursday evening to mark the Chinese New Year or Spring Festival.

The debut show in Nepal featured songs and dances, acrobatics, magic show, instrumental music, Peking Opera and face-changing, an ancient Chinese dramatic art of Sichuan Opera, drawing frequent outbursts of applause from over 700 spectators present.

Many used their mobile phones to record what impressed them most or turned on flashlights to echo the performers.

"Today's performances are a grand event for us to get together with overseas Chinese in Nepal, a grand gathering for us to express our nostalgia as well as inherit our culture, and also a grand gathering for China-Nepal people-to-people friendship," said Guo Qihua, an official from the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, which co-hosted the show with the Chinese Embassy in Nepal.

"The art troupe has brought the party and the country's sincere greetings to overseas Chinese, and also added new splendor to our New Year celebrations," Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Chen Song said on the occasion.

A series of celebrations have been scheduled and held to mark the Spring Festival in Nepal, as 2025 also marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Nepal and China.

The All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese had planned eight art performances in five countries in Asia and South America during this Spring Festival.

By 2024, art troupes under the "Embrace China" program of the federation had conducted more than 1,000 shows in nearly 300 cities of more than 80 countries and regions. Enditem

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