Content from CGTN

The inside story of China's race to eradicate all extreme poverty by the end of the year 2020. With unprecedented access, filmmakers embed in China's poverty alleviation campaign-revealing tens of millions of poor families with customized plans, and the millions of officials recruited and held accountable for the success of the program.

"Earth Summit Mission" is the first 4K documentary recording a scientific expedition. The 60-minute Earth Summit Mission documentary is a record of the second Chinese scientific expedition to Mount Qomolangma which took place in the summer of 2022. It involved around 200 scientists, led by Yao Tandong from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In the course of the expedition, the scientists set a number of records, from collecting ice and snow samples from the highest point on Earth and setting up the world’s highest weather station, to sending up an observation aerostat to an altitude of over 9,000 meters.

In the mountains of Central China lives an ethnic minority, the Qiang. They have maintained their rural way of life and live close to nature. In 2008 they were hit by a deadly earthquake and their population dropped to 300,000. This documentary explores a spring, a summer and an autumn with four of these people.

"Sovereignty at Stake" is a groundbreaking CGTN documentary that explores the complexities of the South China Sea issue, addressing global inquiries on this contentious topic. Through individual narratives and authoritative interviews, the documentary offers valuable insights into the historical background, legal principles and geopolitical dynamics.

Walking into the historical and cultural block, Liu Xing Street in Yining City, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the streets and alleys resemble a hexagonal puzzle. In this community, residents from 13 ethnic groups, including the Uygurs, Kazakhs, Hans, Huis, and others, live together.

Historian Sam Willis teams up with Journalist Li Qiuyuan to dig into historical legacies of the past and explore how today's rail link compares to the caravans of the past - from Yiwu, the most eastern terminus of the China-Europe Railway Express to Chengdu; the busiest train station in China's Southwestern province of Sichuan.