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2024.11.26 17:56 GMT+8

MEET CHINA Ep.8

Updated 2024.11.26 17:56 GMT+8
CGTN

In this episode, our reporter Zhuzhu unveils Wuxi's textile revolution. See the world's finest cotton yarn and visit a high-tech factory using AI and robots. Watch how 3D scanning and 5G help make custom suits faster than ever. Discover how new technology is changing clothes-making, cutting production time from 20 days to just 7.

"It is estimated that there are over 2,300 plant species in Beijing, and the city's biodiversity therefore surpasses that of the entire UK," said Yu Tianyi, a scientific botanical illustrator. He specializes in combining both scientific botanical illustrations and environmental illustrations in order to achieve scientific accuracy, while also capturing the true form of various biological species. Fortunately, his hometown of Beijing, is rich in plant species. Yu Tianyi's work has helped more people to recognize the importance of preserving natural landscapes and vegetation, and advocate for the protection, conservation, and introduction of native species.

When director Wong Kar-wai used his unique understanding of light and shadow to showcase Shanghai in the early 1990s in the hit TV series "Blossoms Shanghai", he really opened up the city to a new audience. It was in no small measure thanks to his work that places such as Huanghe Road and Fairmont Peace Hotel became popular sites to visit and icons of the city. And who can forget host Mike Walter walking into the Peace Hotel, the changes of the Bund, the rise of Pudong, all unfolding before him, as if he’d entered a wormhole taking him back in time?

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