The Spring Festival Gala was unveiled in the Confucius Institute atthe University of Zagreb (CI Zagreb) in Croatia, which is run inpartnership with the Shanghai University of International Businessand Economics (SUIBE), on the evening of 25 January 2014. Mr.Krešimir Jurak, Director of CI Zagreb on the Croatian side, and Mr.Yan Lidong, Director on the Chinese side, made welcome remarksrespectively. Ms. Deng Ying, the new Chinese Ambassador to Croatia,gave a speech at the event, speaking highly of the friendlySino-Croatian relationship, expressing great satisfaction with theachievements made by CI Zagreb over the past one year and a halfsince its establishment in teaching Chinese language and cultureand promoting educational and cultural exchanges between the twocountries, and wishing all the best to the Croatian people in thecoming Chinese New Year. The directors of CI Zagreb presented Ms.Deng with a bust of Confucius made by students at the Academy ofFine Arts of the University of Zagreb, and Ms. Deng, on behalf ofthe Chinese Embassy, presented the CI Zagreb with a folding screenwith a picture of the Chinese Great Wall on it.
Teachers and students of CI Zagreb and the staff of the ChineseEmbassy put up a variety of performances displaying the Chineseculture at the gala show in celebration of the Chinese Lunar NewYear.