The "Exploring the Greater Bay Area" program was launched globally at The Discovery International Television Network

From December 13, 2021, discovery international television network broadcast "Exploring the Greater Bay Area Theme Week" in the Asia-Pacific region for one hour a day for seven consecutive days, and the short clip of the Greater Bay Area documentary was broadcast simultaneously on Discovery's US and European channels. Launched by Guangdong Radio and Television and Discovery Media Group, a global leader in documentary entertainment content, the all-media screening of the Greater Bay Area was launched by Guangdong Radio and Television Station and Discovery Media Group, which selected and extracted seven high-quality documentaries to present the image of China's Greater Bay Area to the world with vivid and in-depth stories.

The screening featured seven high-quality documentaries, 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 scientific and technological innovation, economy, culture, gastronomy and life in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, enhances the image of the world-class Greater Bay Area, and conveys China's construction strength in the new era.

With the gradual implementation of the blueprint plan for China's Greater Bay Area, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area has received extensive international attention in recent years. This theme week sorted out the levels and dimensions of understanding the strategic significance of the Greater Bay Area for international audiences, focusing on the history, geographical ecology, unique culture, economy and commerce and engineering and manufacturing of the Greater Bay Area, from the stories of some ordinary small people to the history, geography and ecology, unique culture, economy and commerce, as well as engineering and manufacturing, and showed the open, inclusive and vibrant Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area with imagination and perception.

The seven episodes of the documentary have different themes, but all of them highlight the past and present life and vigorous development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in terms of story theme and spiritual core. "Beautiful Xijiang" panorama shows the ecological civilization and unique beauty of the Main Stream of the Pearl River; "Our Homeland" truly records the story of the people of Guangdong actively exploring the construction of a beautiful homeland with blue sky, green earth, clear water, and sustainable development for future generations, witnessing the achievements of Guangdong's many years of ecological civilization construction; "Thirteen Elements" is China's first historical experiential documentary, the film adopts mascot anthropomorphism, star real-life experience and other forms, based on the history of Guangdong Thirteen Elements, pursuing "one mouth of trade" During the period, the foreign trade footprint of the Thirteen Elements of Guangzhou deeply explored the important influence of the Thirteen Elements on the economy, culture and art of China and the West; "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 food of Lao Guang; "Quarter Circle" is a super-burning sports documentary, telling the barbaric growth of a group of baseball teenagers; "Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge" reproduces the construction process of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge project from an international perspective. Focusing on the reasons and significance of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge becoming a great project in the 21st century, "Manufacturing Times" tells the story of the struggle and growth of Dongguan manufacturing practitioners and the participation of manufacturing enterprises in international competition and the products going global during the reform and opening up period.

Mr. Qiu Huang, Global Senior Vice President of Discovery Media Group, General Manager of East Asia and Southeast Asia and Head of Asia-Pacific Streaming Media Business, said: "Discovery has always been committed to improving high-quality content that satisfies people's curiosity, China's rapid development has always been a content that is of great concern to international audiences, we insist on using an international perspective to tell Chinese stories well, and we also hope to objectively convey the stories and realities of Various Regions and Fields of China to more corners of the world through a huge international distribution network. This Greater Bay Area Theme Week is of great significance to us, not only because of the strategic importance of the Greater Bay Area, but more importantly, from this series of high-quality documentaries, the picture of the open development of the urban agglomeration of the Greater Bay Area is laid out, and the group portraits of more than 60 million people living here are also seen from it. I believe that this will be a window and a new starting point for the people of the world to understand the Greater Bay Area. ”