SAN GABRIEL – The city of San Gabriel will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate new partnerships that will produce the 2025 Lunar Lantern Festival, along with celebrating the arrival of lanterns from Taiwan. The celebration will be Monday, July 15, and feature representatives from the partnerships, the World Journal Los Angeles and the Taiwan Tourism Administration , both who have Los Angeles offices. The WJLA is the Los Angeles Branch of the World Journal, one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers in the United States.
The Taiwan Tourism Administration will be gifting lanterns to the city for the festival. At the ceremony, San Gabriel Mayor John Wu will officially approve the agreement with WJLA and unveil one of the lantern displays for the 2025 festival. Mayor John Wu, who was born in Hong Kong and raised in Taiwan, said that he looks forward to this partnership as he believes it will greatly benefit the city.
“I think very beautiful things will be happening in our community, not only for this year, but the next 10 years,” said Wu. “San Gabriel is a historical city, and I think this [partnership] is great because when we display these lanterns in a city with a 63% Asian population, we are able to make San Gabriel a lantern city.” San Gabriel has hosted a Lunar New Year Festival since 2016, located in the Mission District.
The lanterns from Taiwan will transform the festival into a Lunar Lantern Festival. Initially, the city budgeted $30,000 for the Lu.
