How to watch 2016 CCTV Spring Festival Gala live streaming from abroad

The Chinese New Year is coming, undoubtedly, the most attractive activity for Chinese both home and overseas is to watch CCTV Spring Festival Gala(春节联欢晚会) on New Year's Eve with family. The New Year's Eve Gala, China's most viewed entertainment broadcast, has been an annual major viewing event in China since its debut in 1983. The previous New Year Gala drew more than 700 million viewers from across the country. While the performers change annually, the format of the show is mostly consistent with some of the most popular performers, including Song and Dance, Xiangsheng/crosstalk, Skits, Chinese Opera, Magic Tricks, and Acrobatics.

Channels to Broadcast Chinese New Year Gala

With the approaching CCTV Chinese New Year Gala 2016, you may wonder which channels will broadcast it live stream. Viewer in China can watch CCTV Spring Festival Gala at 8 p.m., 7th February from CCTV. If you haven't subscribe cable TV service or you are living outside of China Mainland, you can watch CCTV Chinese New Year Gala online live broadcast on CNTV(CCTV's online TV web) or Tencent Video.
Broadcast date: 8pm, February 7, 2016
Duration: 4 - 5 hours

How to watch CCTV Chinese New Year Gala 2016 live streaming online

CCTV and QQ Video have geographic restrictions, their services are only available to Chinese users. So you have to change your IP to a Chinese one with a free China VPN. FlyVPN provides more than 70 China VPN servers, some of them are free to use. Their VPN Clients also compatible and extremely easy to use with all of your internet capable devices such as your Laptop, PC, Mobile Device, Kindle Fire TV, etc. It's simple to get your IP changed to a Chinese IP, and watch 2016 CCTV Spring Festival Gala live broadcast online from abroad. Let's give a brief guide:

1. Connect to a free China VPN. You can refer to the VPN tutorial to setup VPN on Mac, Android, iOS or Windows PC.
2. Watch 2016 CCTV Spring Festival Gala on CCTV, or Watch 2016 CCTV Spring Festival Gala on Tencent QQ Video

If you don't want to watch the Gala on CCTV's website, you can download CCTV Client:
CCTV CBOX Client for Android, iOS
CCTV CBOX Client for PC