China News Service, Hong Kong, February 11th: Longteng Hong Kong celebrates the New Year and celebrates the festival with joy
China News Service reporter Xiang Luping
During the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon in Hong Kong, everything is decorated with lights and colorful decorations, filled with joy and a strong festive atmosphere! Major shopping malls are very popular, and the streets and alleys are bustling. Families, relatives and friends are paying New Year greetings to each other. There is laughter and joy everywhere, and joy and blessings fill every corner.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the "Cathay Pacific New Year International Parade Night" features unique float parades and performances to send New Year blessings for Hong Kong's Year of the Dragon. The gorgeous parade floats are like "dragons", carrying "continuous good luck" and travel through the famous tourist attractions in Tsim Sha Tsui. Together with the performances of multiple dynamic performance teams, citizens and tourists celebrate the Spring Festival and welcome the blessings together.
During the New Year and festivals, many believers go to Po Lin Monastery, Wong Tai Sin Temple and Che Kung Temple to pray for blessings, and the incense is particularly prosperous. The wishing tree located in Lam Tsuen, Tai Po, New Territories, also attracts many Hong Kong citizens and tourists to make wishes; they write their New Year's wishes on the "treasure cards", such as "good things happen", "good health", "academic progress", "great financial resources", etc. And tie oranges, sincerely pay homage and throw them on the tree.
On the second night of the Lunar New Year, the New Year fireworks display will once again light up the night sky of Victoria Harbor after four years. The Lunar New Year fireworks display staged at Victoria Harbor will present a colorful visual feast. The eight-act fireworks arranged this time have been carefully designed and incorporate many distinctive New Year elements, fully displaying the colorful charm of Hong Kong-style nights and adding to the festive atmosphere.
Looking back on the Year of the Rabbit, Hong Kong has got rid of the epidemic, embarked on the road of returning to normalcy through comprehensive customs clearance, and is leaping forward at full speed on the new journey from governance to revitalization, ushering in an overall recovery, and regaining the momentum of economic growth. The Hong Kong SAR government stated that with the support of inbound tourism and private consumption, Hong Kong's economy continued to recover in the third quarter of last year, and the full-year economic growth forecast was 3.2%.
Entering the Year of the Dragon, although Hong Kong faces many internal and external challenges and the world situation continues to be unstable, the external pressure faced by Hong Kong is bound to increase unabated; in addition, the trend of international interest rates has brought instability factors to the financial market, external inflation and The increasingly fierce competition in the surrounding areas will also have some impact on Hong Kong's financial, consumer and tourism industries. However, "backing on the motherland and connecting the world" is still Hong Kong's greatest advantage. It should give full play to the strong vitality and superiority of "one country, two systems", integrate into the overall development of the country, participate in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and take advantage of China's economic giant to take off and have An endless stream of new opportunities can tap into new drivers of economic growth.
Thousands of households always replace old talismans with new peaches. Hong Kong's economy is now gradually getting back on track and its development is getting better. When many Hong Kong people talk about their wishes for the new year, they hope that in the Year of the Dragon, all walks of life will prosper and people will live and work in peace and contentment, and have a better year every year! (over)