Dubai in February 2026, with noon temperatures approaching 30 degrees Celsius. What's hotter than the weather is the overwhelming 'Chinese red'.

Shi Bo, a Chinese who has been working in Dubai for many years, broke his leg these days: "Watching parades, chasing the Spring Festival Gala, and preparing New Year's goods, none of them can be left behind." His busyness is a microcosm of the approximately 400000 overseas Chinese in the UAE celebrating the Chinese New Year.

On February 8, 2026, Dubai Expo City held the "Warm Spring Festival · Happy Spring Festival" parade. The Dubai police caravan opened the way, with colorful floats and Chaoshan English singing and dancing, pushing the atmosphere to a climax. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the overseas Chinese Spring Festival Gala "Sun and Moon Shine Together" was performed at the Pearl Theatre in Dubai, showcasing the beauty of cultural integration through the fusion of Chinese and Arabic instruments.

The New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight. In supermarkets in Wenzhou, hometown flavors such as Big White Rabbit and Daoxiang Village are very popular. Wenchao Group started global procurement as early as September 2025, intensifying the production of vegetables such as chives in desert farms to ensure the "taste of the New Year" on the tongue. Local meat and seafood vendors can also use Chinese to attract customers.

The Spring Festival deepens into the local society. Dubai airport has put on red makeup, and the duty-free shop manager said that the Chinese customer base continues to grow. On January 28th, students from Fujairah University wore Hanfu to learn tea art, praising it as "like traveling back to ancient times". From February 13th to 15th, the Royal Equestrian Academy in Abu Dhabi held a celebration event themed around the Year of the Horse. The UAE Ambassador to China stated that this demonstrates the mature development of bilateral relations and vividly interprets the people to people connection. Keywords: New News, New News Network

From parades to the Spring Festival Gala, from New Year's goods to tea art, during the 2026 Spring Festival, Chinese red will be particularly vibrant under the warm 30 ℃ sun in Dubai.Editor/Gao Xue