New and dynamic, full of warmth. On January 10, China Central Radio and Television successfully completed the second rehearsal of the 2025 Spring Festival Gala. The quality of various types of programs such as original songs and dances, crosstalk sketches, operas, and creative programs continued to improve, and the connection between various links became smoother. The innovation and creativity in artistic performance, stage design, and barrier-free broadcasting were also refreshing.

With background and new rhyme

"Ruyi" space, full of novelty and thoughtfulness

The 2025 Spring Festival Gala stage is shaped like a "Ruyi" that connects the main stage and the audience seats, which maximizes the immersive and interactive feeling of the Spring Festival Gala and conveys the blessing of everything going well. Virtual reality, naked-eye 3D, ultra-high-definition visual projection and other technologies will also be fully applied on the Spring Festival Gala stage to create an infinitely changing and richly layered "Ruyi" space.

The "Ruyi" stage staged a heartfelt program. The song and dance program with the theme of "red envelope" incorporated paper-cutting, shadow puppetry, Chinese knots, windmills and other intangible cultural heritage and Spring Festival folk elements in the lyrics, performances and costume design; the Niuniu Choir from Daliang Mountain in Sichuan sang the heavenly children's voices, and with the blessing of virtual reality and other technologies, the stage was transformed into a vast universe, recreating the thousand-year dream of reaching the moon in the sky.

“Spring Festival Gala Experience Officer”

Invite shining ordinary people to come to the Spring Festival Gala

This year, the Spring Festival Gala launched the "Spring Festival Gala Experience Officer" project for the first time, inviting ordinary people who work hard in their respective positions, pursue a better life, and are lovely and respectable, to experience the Spring Festival Gala up close. Xiaohua, a barber from Huaihua, Hunan, became popular for his ability to "understand and do" customer needs. With a pair of scissors and a comb, he went from a small barber shop to the backstage of the Spring Festival Gala, becoming the "specially invited hairstylist" of the Spring Festival Gala.

At the rehearsal site, traditional cultural video creator @南翔史海峰, Qijiang Charcoal Flower Dance provincial intangible cultural heritage inheritor Hu Guangdan, Shanxi Taiyuan Mass Choir conductor "Sister Soldier" Yang Fang and other guests of "Spring Festival Gala Waiting for You" took their seats in the audience to experience a warm gathering together.

First barrier-free broadcast

Let you "see" and "hear" the Spring Festival Gala

Let love be barrier-free. This year's Spring Festival Gala launched barrier-free broadcasts for the visually impaired and hearing-impaired for the first time, so that the visually impaired and hearing-impaired can also "see" and "hear" the Spring Festival Gala. This rehearsal specially invited disabled people such as "Silent Knight" deliverymen to observe, collect their experience feedback, and continuously optimize barrier-free broadcasts. This year, more than 45 million people with visual and hearing impairments across the country will enjoy the Spring Festival Gala and spend New Year's Eve together through barrier-free broadcasts.

In addition, CCTV Video and CCTV News Client have launched a special section for the "Spring Festival Gala", and continue to follow up on the latest developments in the preparations for the Spring Festival Gala, providing users with a one-stop convenient service for watching the Spring Festival Gala with high-quality content and tidbits surrounding the Spring Festival Gala.