Featuring glutinous rice, it will mainly grab business opportunities emerging from traditional Chinese festivals such as the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, the Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival.

He explained that the sets dubbed "Story of Nian" and "Spring Lantern Festival" aim to familiarize children with the traditional Chinese New Year through LEGO's bricks.

Jemal Nura has been using a solar lantern for the last seven months and is impressed by the results.

Nura, whose monthly income is 3,000 birr ($104), said the lantern has saved him the 48 monthly birr ($2) he used to spend on candles and charging his mobile phone.

"I bought the lantern at 600 birr ($21) after my neighbor convinced me of its benefits and, for sure, I haven't been disappointed.

My phone is always on, because I charge it using the solar lantern," he said.

Lantern Capital Partners, a Dallas-based private equity firm, plans to buy the movie-production company's assets for $310 million in cash, which requires The Weinstein Co to sell its film and television studios.

A large interactive screen showing how the Lantern Festival was celebrated in Emperor Xianzong's palace in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) covers the wall beside the cashiers at a KFC restaurant in Qianmen, central Beijing.

PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILYKweichow Moutai Co, the best-known high-end Chinese liquor, has witnessed rising demand and a supply shortage in the weeks leading up to the Mid-Autumn Lantern Festival and the National Day holiday.

The company's unique products such as solar lantern with radio and mobile charging capability could provide respite to Kenya's air pollution challenges linked to rampant use of kerosene and wax candles.

She revealed that a solar study lamp and torch will retail for $2 in the Kenyan market while a solar lantern with phone charger will cost $13.

He took the annual lantern festival at Yuyuan Garden, a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration, for example.

The event, with the aim of "holding events every day, offering discounts every week and having themes every month", will last until Lantern Festival of next year, which falls on Feb 5.

Traditionally, employees working far away from home will go back for annual family reunions before Lunar New Year, which fell on Feb 12 this year, and production is usually not completely restored until the Lantern Festival, 15 days after the Lunar New Year begins, Pan said.

Before the Lantern Festival, which falls on Feb 26, another 3 freight trains are expected to depart from Wujiashan station, delivering more Chinese products to European countries.

The 70-plus branches of the restaurant in Changsha, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Guangdong province, witnessed long lines of customers during the weeklong holiday and for Lantern Festival, which fell on Feb 5.

This year, the Spring Festival holiday and Lantern Festival witnessed this rebound, which has given those in the industry added confidence for their operations this year.

"At rush hours during the Spring Festival (from Jan 21-27), diners needed to wait for a long time for tables to clear, while dining booths were fully booked well ahead of the Lantern Festival (on Feb 5)," said Lyu Yongjie, manager of the restaurant.

Searches for "night tour" and "Lantern Festival" doubled in the past week compared to the same period last year, according to statistics from Ctrip, an online travel platform.

Data from the travel portal Tuniu shows that orders for Lantern Festival trips in 2023 have increased by 56 percent year-on-year.

In terms of domestic travel, short trips became popular during the Lantern Festival, holding 52 percent of orders, and long-haul destinations such as Yunnan and Hainan were still favored.

According to official data, over 470 million visitors participated in around 110,000 public cultural events, including lantern shows and traditional folk opera performances nationwide.

The annual lantern festival, or lantern fair, at Yuyuan Garden, one of China's national intangible cultural heritages, is a key cultural highlight in Shanghai during the Spring Festival celebration.

This year's lantern fair will last 52 days until Feb 15, longer than the previous editions.

"This year's lantern fair is unparalleled.

Honestly, I didn't expect such a big crowd," said another visitor, who came to the lantern show for the first time this year.

"Since the opening of the lantern festival, we've noticed a strong growth in tourist numbers.

"Related products featuring the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics mascots－panda Bing Dwen Dwen and red lantern Shuey Rhon Rhon－are for sale in the Celebrity International Grand Hotel, another official hotel.

It offered jiaozi on Lunar New Year's Eve and on the fifth day of the first lunar month, and will offer yuanxiao, small sweet glutinous rice balls, during Lantern Festival, which will fall on Feb 15.

A limited edition of 3,000 commemorative badges of Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon was designed for the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, which fell on Feb 8 this year.

This year's Lantern Festival on Feb 19 attracted 570,000 visitors to the photoelectric fireworks show on Sichuan Tower of China in Chengdu.

"Dumplings, glutinous rice balls and traditional Chinese rice-pudding, they witness the highest amount of sales during festivals, around Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, respectively.

The century-old Palace Museum opened its gates at night for the first time for this year's Lantern Festival yesterday, presenting a unique, fantastic gala to the general public.

"During festivals we got some additional food such as sweet rice dumplings for the Lantern Festival, or rice cakes for the Dragon Boat Festival," Gao said.

Join the Ancient Canal Lantern Riddle Challenge, the Wenchang Pavilion Canal Culture Challenge, and see how far you can get with your literary attainments.

It is made of triangular aluminum plates carved with more than 4,200 simulated enamel lantern patterns.