The launch ceremony for a CGTN Documentary kicked off on Tuesday at Guangxi TV Station in Nanning, the capital city of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. The documentary, named The Village Full of Hope, is a project echoing China-ASEAN International Poverty Reduction Program initiated by International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC), 

Teng Yunping, CEO of China Global Television Network Corporation (CGTNC), Li Bin, Deputy Director of CGTN English Channel, and Zhou Liwen, President of Guangxi Television initiated and addressed the event. Sun Daguang, Deputy Chief of Publicity Department of CPC Guangxi Regional Committee; Zhao Meiyan, International Cooperation Officer of IPRCC; Lu Jie, Deputy Director of  Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of Guangxi autonomous region also attended the ceremony.

Teng Yunping said that poverty reduction is a major step in building the community of shared future that has been proposed by President Xi Jinping. Guangxi Television plays an important role in the forefront of China-ASEAN cooperation and interaction and CGTN  shares the same goal of telling the world about China’s poverty reduction.

Supported by the IPRCC, CGTN and Guangxi TV will be working together to produce the documentary which focuses on the cooperation between China and the ASEAN countries in poverty reduction as part of the Belt and Road Initiative. The production team will go to the project villages in Laos, Kampuchea, and Burma and show how China’s experience in alleviating poverty is working there.

In November 2014, Premier Li Keqiang put forward the "Cooperation Initiative on Poverty Reduction in East Asia" at the ASEAN-China Summit. In December 2016, the cooperation demonstration project on the poverty reduction initiative was officially launched in Vientiane, the capital of Laos. According to the plan, China would cooperate with two poverty-stricken villages each in Laos, Kampuchea and Burma over the next three years to share China’s knowledge and experience in poverty reduction and carry out the strategies of targeted poverty alleviation according to the different conditions to improve local productivity and living conditions, enhance self-development ability and improve the livelihood of the people.

The Village Full of Hope will be aired on CGTN’s Big Story, a weekly program for groundbreaking documentaries probing a range of current affairs. Through unique documentary storytelling, the program each week explores the critical issues and current affairs impacting people all across the globe.