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Spring Festival is bursting with happiness and is the time when Chinese bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. It is a very important symbol of China's traditional culture. 

Ahead of the Spring Festival, Sata Arayakul, Thailand's consul general in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, extended his best wishes for the upcoming Year of the Dragon and wished the Chinese people a happy New Year.