Based on the real deeds of Yu Fuling, the TV series "People in spring" premiered on CCTV on the 23rd of this month

Poster for the TV series "People in the Spring". Photo courtesy of the interviewee

After 3 years of squatting in various communities in Ningbo, directed by senior female director Tian Yuanhong, and starring powerful actors Li Xiaofeng and Ling Xiaosu, the TV series "People in Spring" is finally going to meet with the national audience. Yesterday, the reporter learned that this TV series based on the true deeds of Yu Fuling, a national moral model and former party secretary of the rowing community in Baizhang Street, Yinzhou District, will be on CCTV eight sets from October 23 to tell the story of what happened in the Ningbo community to the national audience.

It has created a group of simple and vivid social workers and residents

"The TV series 'People in spring' takes Yu Fuling's real deeds and stories as the prototype, and cuts from the smallest 'cell' in the national governance system, community workers, which not only shows the latest achievements and experiences in the modernization of urban grassroots social governance, but also explores the problem of how modern urbanites find their own position in the face of complicated work and family conflicts, and witnesses the bitterness, difficulties and growth of community workers." According to the person in charge of the producer of the play, "People in the Spring" has created a group of simple and vivid social workers and residents from the "Spring", "which is a rare contemporary life film that shows the hard work of community workers and the transformation of the concept of grass-roots government work". At the same time, the play also pays attention to popular social issues such as "single mother", "mother treasure man", "domestic violence" and "entrepreneurship", which attracts young audiences and also triggers audiences to think.

According to the reporter's understanding, "People in the Spring" is planned and produced by Aiwo Media, which has produced a number of CCTV and satellite TV hit dramas, with Chairman Li Zhe as the chief producer, General Manager Chen Haifan as the producer, senior female director Tian Yuanhong as the director, husband and wife screenwriters Lu Wei and Wang Qiyao as screenwriters, powerful actors Li Xiaofeng and Ling Xiaosu as the lead actors, Sun Zhihong, Xie Chengying, Yao Anlin, Zhou Xiaoli, Ma Xiaoning, Liu Tingzuo, Gao Fang, Chen Weihan, Li Jingyang, Tian Zheng and many other well-known actors co-starring.

The play tells the story of Xu Yingying, a goddess-level university teacher, who took the initiative to invite the city's "doctor to the grassroots" activities due to family changes, despite her parents' objections, and went to the community to work for a year. Unexpectedly, it was arranged in the most tricky spring in the community, and troubles followed... Wu Yuelin pretended to jump off the building for the rental of the old factory area, causing the former community secretary Liang to have a stroke, and Xu Yingying was forced to take over the hot potato in the old factory area and became the core figure in the community. However, "Xiu cai met the soldiers, the reason is not clear", as soon as she took office, the ensuing troubles almost crushed her. Through in-depth visits to residents, Xu Yingying found that she only started to govern the community from her own point of view, without seeing the actual difficulties of residents, and planned to solve the problems of residents from the root.

Strive to make the community life of "one place chicken feathers" become a "next meal drama"

Li Zhe, chief producer of "People in spring", said that the drama changed the emotionally oriented female image of "love brain" that the mainstream audience disliked, showing the characteristics of contemporary women's independent and autonomous characters. At the same time, the drama is based on the daily life of ordinary residents, using warmth and delicate and simple techniques to present one after another small characters who have shortcomings but no lack of virtue in daily life to every audience in a true and three-dimensional way.

Xu Yingying, the gentle and stubborn community director, Tian Lijie, a casual and responsible people's policeman, Tian Lifen, a hot and sharp hotel owner, Wu Yuelin, an old man who loves small and cheap but takes care of his family... The play uses vivid and specific characters to show the community life of "chicken feathers in one place", interprets the true meaning of happiness, and passes on behind ordinary faces, the extraordinary support, extraordinary bravery and extraordinary benevolence. "The storyline is interlocking and fascinating, and strives to become a 'next meal drama' that meets the increasingly stringent aesthetic demands of young audiences with real characters, real scenes, and true stories." Li Zhe introduced.

According to the reporter's understanding, "People in spring" is produced by CCTV, Zhejiang Aiwo Culture Media Co., Ltd., Shenzhen Radio and Television Film and Television Co., Ltd., and Ningbo Cultural Tourism Investment Group Co., Ltd., and jointly produced by China International Television Corporation, Beijing Aiwo Culture Media Co., Ltd., Oriental Jiaying Television Theater Media Co., Ltd., and China Radio, Film and Television Program Trading Center. The main creative team spent three years to go to the community to collect wind and investigate, and interviewed the management experience and touching deeds of many advanced communities in Ningbo, repeatedly deliberated and polished, which is a realist work that reflects the modernization of urban grassroots social governance.

The TV series "People in the Spring" is scheduled to air on October 23, 2021, in CCTV's eight prime time.

Ningbo Evening News reporter Shi Daiwei