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07/01/2026

China Media Group has released a short video promoting its Spring Festival Gala, which will be broadcast live around the world on the evening of February 16.
Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most important traditional holiday for Chinese people, and watching the Spring Festival Gala on television is a cherished part of the celebrations in hundreds of millions of Chinese homes.

07/01/2026

China Media Group has released a short video promoting its Spring Festival Gala, which will be broadcast live around the world on the evening of February 16.
Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most important traditional holiday for Chinese people, and watching the Spring Festival Gala on television is a cherished part of the celebrations in hundreds of millions of Chinese homes.
Since first being broadcast in 1983, the gala has been recognized by Guinness World Records as the most-watched annual television program on the planet; and just over a year ago, Spring Festival itself was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
So, get ready for a joyous spectacle of music and dance, high tech and shared traditions, to mark the beginning of the Year of the Horse!

06/01/2026

In Japan's Yasukuni Shrine, 14 Class-A war criminals convicted by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East after World War II are enshrined. Meanwhile, it also enshrines victims of Japanese aggression, placing them alongside those responsible for wartime atrocities. Some people believe this is akin to placing Holocaust victims alongside Hi**er on the same memorial.
Over the past decades, some descendants of ethnic communities in Taiwan have been calling for removal of their ancestors’ names from Yasukuni. Recently, some families in South Korea are directly suing Yasukuni, demanding their relatives’ disenshrinement, as previous lawsuits against the Japanese government failed to achieve that goal.

02/01/2026

A city in motion. A new landmark takes shape.
From the legacy of Kai Tak Airport to the rise of Kai Tak Sports Park, innovative design, urban life, and world-class sport come together in Hong Kong and across the Greater Bay Area.
Behind the scenes and on the field, every effort serves a single goal: building a space where sport belongs to the city.
“Game On, Kai Tak” premieres January 3 on CGTN and CGTN Documentary. Get ready. Get set.

02/01/2026

As Hong Kong’s Commissioner for Sports of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau, Kai Tak Sports Park has been one of George Tsoi's most significant projects. To ensure its success, his team ran around 20 trials with roughly 200,000 participants in total. The crucial information collected was then used to optimize traffic and operations, keeping the park running in sync with the city while handling large crowds safely.
George is particularly proud of the main stadium’s adaptable design. It can transform into a concert venue overnight and back into a world-class sports facility again within just a few days. This flexibility allows Kai Tak Sports Park to efficiently host a range of large-scale events — a huge win for the city’s diverse sporting, cultural, and tourism needs.

01/01/2026

The Shrine and the Sinners: Japan's War Criminals and the Unquiet Past
For many in East Asia, the terms Nanjing Massacre and Unit 731 are synonymous with wartime atrocities. Yet individuals prosecuted by an international tribunal and executed for their crimes are still honored at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine. This documentary explores the uncomfortable contradiction between justice and remembrance, questioning what it really means for a nation to enshrine convicted war criminals.

30/12/2025

In addition to the 80th anniversary of victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China is marking another significant anniversary this year; 120 years since the birth of cinema in the country.
I Will Be There After My Wandering has been produced to mark this important milestone. It tells the story of a man who, as a young student, left China in the wake of the Japanese invasion and went to study in the United States, where he eventually embarked on a career in film-making. His name was Wan-go Weng.
In the course of 40 years in the US, Wan-go Weng created dozens of documentary films, all of them focused on China. At a time when the world knew little about his native country, he was among the very first to promote Chinese culture internationally, using the medium of documentary to turn a spotlight on its rich civilization. Yet both his work and his life remain little known.
The 60-minute documentary took two and a half years to complete. It features interviews with 33 experts and scholars, and family members and friends of Wan-go Weng, as well as rare archive footage uncovered by the crew in the course of visiting ten cities in China and the US. Ultimately, I Will Be There After My Wandering tells the story of an exile who spent most of his life composing a cinematic “letter home”.

Making a "Magic Cloud” RealThrough 1560 test flights, Zhao Deli has taken the dream of flying and from it, created a dro...
30/12/2025

Making a "Magic Cloud” Real
Through 1560 test flights, Zhao Deli has taken the dream of flying and from it, created a drone motorcycle called the "Jindouyun", or “Magic Cloud”. From initial repeated crashes to safe takeoffs and landings, he has used his perseverance and courage to make fantasy come true in the tech era.

30/12/2025

The China Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe conveys a sense of strength in their silent dance. In taking the "Thousand-hand Bodhisattva" to the global stage, they are acting as envoys of both culture and life, demonstrating that "where there's light in the heart, no road is too long".

30/12/2025

CGTN was embedded on China's most advanced destroyer, the Type 055, during a recent formation drill at sea. The Navy continues to build a comprehensive force capable of conducting multiple missions in blue waters. Here’s a hint of the strategies behind China’s naval transformation.

30/12/2025

As China's navy expands, there is an urgent need for more carrier-based pilots. CGTN was granted exclusive access to the training base and recorded how the Navy is developing its own cohort of pilots through different modes.

30/12/2025

The PLA Navy's helicopter units are transforming to meet the demands of the blue water missions. This means a transition from land-based to ship-based operations. CGTN follows a joint operation at sea.

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