Explore the "Greater Bay Area Theme Week" to see a different China

On December 13, 2021, Guangdong Radio and Television Station and Discovery Media Group, a global leader in documentary entertainment content, jointly launched the "China Greater Bay Area Theme Comprehensive Media Screening Event", which selected and extracted seven high-quality documentaries to present the image of China's Greater Bay Area to the people of the world with vivid and in-depth stories.

The screening selected seven high-quality documentaries and edited the essence of the editions, including "Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge" (documentary film version), "Our Homeland", "Thirteen Elements", "The Taste of Lao Guang", "Beautiful Xijiang", "Manufacturing Era" and "Quarter Circle". From an international perspective, it comprehensively displays the development and achievements of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the fields of scientific and technological innovation, economic development, culture, cuisine and life, enhances the image of the world-class Greater Bay Area, and conveys China's construction strength in the new era. The series of documentaries describes the miracles and challenges created by China's Greater Bay Area in the fields of scientific and technological innovation, economic development, cultural inheritance, and people's lives, and presents a diversified feature in terms of TV series form, story type and theme.

With the gradual implementation of the blueprint plan for China's Greater Bay Area and the improvement of its strategic significance, it has received extensive international attention in recent years. This theme week provides a very layered and perceptive form of presentation for international audiences. The Greater Bay Area means 11 cities, but also means more than 60 million people living here, from some ordinary little people

"Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge" reproduces the construction process of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project from an international perspective, focusing on excavating the reasons and significance of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge as a great project in the 21st century; "Our Homeland" takes the character stories in the building as clues to show the history and culture of Chinese architecture; "Thirteen Elements" is China's first historical experiential documentary, the film adopts the form of mascot anthropomorphism, celebrity real-life experience, etc., based on the history of the Thirteen Elements of Guangdong, and deeply explores the thirteen elements to the economy, culture and culture of China and the West. Important influences in art and other aspects; "The Taste of Lao Guang" is a large-scale food documentary, which takes food as the carrier, goes deep into the original place of ingredients, and explores the real and vivid daily cuisine of Lao Guang; "Beautiful Xijiang" is the only documentary that shows the real situation of the Xijiang River Basin as China's ecological civilization highland in a panoramic manner so far, the film shows the unique beauty of the Xijiang River Basin from a multi-dimensional and three-dimensional perspective; "Manufacturing Era" tells the reform and opening up period, The story of the struggle and growth of Dongguan manufacturing workers and the participation of manufacturing enterprises in international competition and the products to the world; "Quarter Circle" is a super-burning sports documentary that tells the barbaric growth of a group of baseball teenagers.

The seven documentaries have different themes, but all of them highlight the vigorous development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in terms of story theme and spiritual core. With the promulgation of the Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, taking the film and television industry as the starting point and uniting Hong Kong and Macao for coordinated development is an important opportunity to build a "Humanistic Bay Area". The development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area not only brings new opportunities for investors, but also has unlimited imagination space for cultural inheritance and exchange, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is in the same vein in terms of regional geography, cultural origins, humanistic spirit, customs and habits. As the vanguard of reform and opening up, there are inexhaustible and vivid themes, which are bound to provide a broad stage for in-depth exchanges between talents, and can attract the attention of people around the world, and the 7 documentaries selected by "Voice of the Greater Bay Area" can make the world better understand China's development and attract the world to pay attention to understand and fall in love with China.