A Chinese worker prepares red lanterns to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival at a park in Jilin, northeast China's Jilin Province, January 27, 2006. The Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, falls on January 29 this year.

Chinese soldiers form three Chinese characters that read "Happy Spring Festival" for the upcoming Lunar New Year in Hefei of Anhui Province January 27, 2006.

Chinese workers set up red lanterns to form the Chinese character that reads "Spring" for the upcoming Lunar New Year in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, January 27, 2006.

(Xinhua News Agency January 28, 2006)