PM Modi wishes Chinese people on Year of Rooster

China formally bids farewell to the year of Monkey today and will herald the year of Rooster tomorrow. China has declared official holiday for a week. Chinese celebrate the new year as Spring Festival.

People burn incense sticks at a temple as they celebrate the Lunar New Year in China Town, in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, Japan January 28, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Chinese lunar calendar years are grouped into a 12-year cycle, with each year assigned an animal symbol: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. The Prime Minister opened an account in Weibo, a twitter like social media platform which is very popular in China during his visit here in 2015 and continued to make use of it to interact with Chinese people.

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British Prime Minister Theresa May also sent her wishes through to the Chinese people through her Weibo account. May said the Year of the Rooster is set to be particularly important for the relationship between Britain and China, because the starting point for bilateral relations is stronger than ever before.

“We receive more Chinese investment than any other major European country. We’ve got around 150,000 Chinese students studying here and the number of Chinese tourists visiting has doubled in five years,” May said.

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