Australia's Sydney Celebrations Chinese New Year
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Transtlate More than 600,000 locals and overseas visitors are expected to join the Chinese New Year celebrations in Sydney, Australia, welcoming the Year of the Rabbit, the local authorities said on Thursday.
The City of Sydney said more than 50 free festival events would be on offer from Jan. 28 to Feb. 13.
The celebrations will kick off on Friday evening at Belmore Park in the heart of Sydney's Asian community.
Festival markets, exclusive performances, fireworks and the best of local Asian cuisine will be available at the park.
"The Chinese New Year celebration really focuses on one of the major groups that live here, and they're very much a developing part of our Australian culture," Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said on Thursday.
Ten percent of inner Sydney residents are of Chinese background, and Mandarin and Cantonese are the languages most spoken in Sydney households after English, Moore said.
Moore joined festival organizers in Sydney to launch the city's 2011 Sydney Chinese New Year Festival.
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