The CPAFFC Spring Festival Concert 2014, jointly organized by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), the National Centre of the Performing Arts (NCPA), and Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture, Radio, Film & TV, was held at the Multi-functional Theatre of NCPA on February 18, 2014. Over two hundred foreign diplomats from more than seventy countries and regions came to the concert at the invitation of the CPAFFC, which made the concert, for friends home and abroad, a chance to enjoy China’s traditional arts and a meeting point to enhance their friendship.
In her greetings, President Li Xiaolin thanked all the embassies and friends from various circles for the support during the past year for the association and extended the heartfelt new-year greetings to all the guests present.
Hosted by Yang Lan and co-starred by famous singer Dai Yuqiang, Jamyang Dolma, as well as artists from Shanghai Chinese Orchestra and the Centre Conservatory of Music, the concert started with traditional Chinese chime bell song New Year Overture and came to be a wonderful performance for the audience, presenting the Chinese folk music not only in traditional way but by modern stage techniques.
Uyunqimg, Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People''''s Congress, and Gu Xiulian, adviser to the 9th National Council of the CPAFFC have also come and watched the performance, and celebrated the festival with guests both home and broad.
