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Weekly New Releases - China
Wu Qiang always had a deep passion for riding horses--so deep, in fact, that in 2007 he decided to invest 50 million RMB in establishing an equestrian club in Shanghai. Nobody could understand why. But 6 years later, how's business now? 18-year-old Zhou Nan has always dreamed of competing in the Olympics' equestrian events. Will her dream ever come true?
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2013 / 30 minutes
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Why have these minority women come all the way to Shanghai? What is 'fair trade'? What are the benefits of a 'fair trade wedding'?In this edition of China Untapped, we take a look at 'fair trade' training in Shanghai.
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2013 / 30 minutes
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Shanghai is the first city in China to enter the aging society. How to spend one's life after retirement has become a popular topic.
Stay with your children? Live alone? Move into a senior's apartment? Or keep working?
These choices are usually made with compromises, but it's a decision everyone will encounter in life.
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2013 / 30 minutes
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Cecile Cavoizy, a French native living in Shanghai is committed to charity in China. She tries her best to help young Chinese from rural areas become qualified pastry bakers. Columbian singer Shirley Maria has been living in Shanghai for 10 years with her 7-year-old son. All of a sudden, we are surrounded by foreigners who can speak fluent mandarin. They are not only our colleagues, but our neighbors as well.
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2013 / 30 minutes
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In 2012, hundreds of thousands of high-school students on the Chinese mainland flooded into Hong Kong for SAT. In the same year, Shanghai Science Hall suddenly became the biggest examination hall in the world for SSAT. 2012 also witnessed 400 thousand students to study abroad.
What happened? China Untapped will take you to get a clearer picture about the unprecedented boom of studying overseas.
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2013 / 30 minutes
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Why did he creat aquaponic syetem? Why did the make their own robots? How will the 3D printer change our life? In this edition of China Untapped we take you to the world of makers and see what they are making.
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2013 / 30 minutes
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China Visionaries is a documentary produced in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
China's recent history is one of profound changes. From an economy with a closed-door policy, it transformed into an open economy of rapid growth and reform. During this era of change, many overseas leaders have left their footprints on China's history, including Henry Kissinger, Nakasone Yasuhiro, and Juan Antonio Samaranch. The program will be a combination of documentary and feature interview, with each episode focusing on one character. "China Visionaries" will present a fresh look back on China's recent history, uniquely insightful with private and profound views.
8 DVDs / 2013 / 480 minutes
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The program invited Dr. Robert Kuhn, author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin and The Inside Story of China's 30-Year Reform, to be its host and writer.
China's Challenges is a warts-and-all look at some of the problems that China faces as a result of its economic boom - including rich vs poor, urban vs rural, and other social issues.
Through interviews with high-level officials, experts, scholars, and ordinary people, China's Challenges reflects the changes and progress in the country after China's opening up, especially during the past ten years, examining efforts made by the Government in confronting those challenges.
Where is China's Economy Going?
Are the Chinese People Happy?
China Can Produce. Can China Create?
Are the Chinese People 'Real' Citizens?
What do the Chinese People Believe?
5 DVDs (English and Chinese, With English and Chinese Subtitles) / 2013 / 300 minutes
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Hotchat: China's Own GPS
Everyone knows about GPS these days, the handy little box that finds good restaurants for you and then tells you how to drive there. But pretty soon, users in China will be learning another name too -- Beidou, the new alternative to the American Global Positioning System. All Beidou equipment connects to the Chinese satellites which can tells ships or vehicles their exact position. This function once saved Chinese sailors from assault. Keeping sailors safe is far from Beidou's only capability. Now satellite navigation systems start businesses -- rich businesses. How does China's work, and who's beginning to profit from it?
Lightbulb: No More Free Music
Plenty of people download songs from the internet without paying for them. At home you might be able to get away with it, but in public places like restaurants or shopping malls, it's obviously against the copyright law. It turns out business owners really need professional advice on paying for their background music, and for picking the right kind of music as well. But who would play the role? Is there any market potential for this?
DVD / 2013 / 60 minutes
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Hotchat: Green Credit Leads to a Green China?
You probably know one of the most popular words in China these days -- "PM2.5," a measurement of one of the most dangerous particles in polluted air. People in many cities have been complaining about it for two week. In the midst of China's winter-time pollution problems, everyone's talking about how to make the country greener. Actually six years ago the government began urging banks to adopt what it called Green Finance, and put their money into anti-pollution projects. How is the Green Credit project doing? How will China fight against environmental pollution?
Lightbulb:Taking Responsibility When Taking Money
Everyone would agree that companies exist to make money. Can companies make money and exhibit social responsibility as well? Many multinational corporations realized that their business activities affected not only their investors and managers, but also other important stakeholders -- government, customers, suppliers, trade unions and the communities in which they work. Corporate Social Responsibility is still a new idea in China and that's why a Korean expat established his consulting company in Shanghai -- to show companies the advantages of being responsible to society, to their employees, and to the government.
DVD / 2013 / 60 minutes
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Hot chat: Utilization of China solar power
Gloomy days for China solar power industry now: on the one hand, several big Chinese solar panel makers have either gone bankrupt or are recording huge losses. On the other, ten years after China's solar power industry started up, only a few individual solar power users are now connecting to the State Grid, China's electric power supplier. Why so late? And can these individual power user-generators really be a sign of things to come, of an energy-saving future for China?
Light bulb: Entering China - Virtually
How do you make a marketing impact in the biggest city in the world? How do you do it quick and cheap? Especially if you're a foreign company that doesn't really have much of a physical presence here. Light bulb is going to introduce you this kind of service, which combines online social networking with publicity events to create a following for foreign companies in the Chinese market, to create so called "virtual assets." How do they make it?
DVD / 2013 / 60 minutes
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Many of the foreigners in China have come in search of opportunities for a new life in cosmopolitan cities like Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. The country's economic achievements, brilliant prospects and the vitality of life, all combine to give them good reasons to stay in China. This is an infotainment-reality program that aims to show the lives of foreign workers who left their homeland to work and settle down in China. They experienced culture shock, but yet to survive in a totally different environment.
6 DVDs / 2013 / 360 minutes
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In this edition of China Untapped, we will take you to a remote Zang ethnic group village, celebrate the most important festival--Gu Zha Zi together with the people there. Explore another village 20 kilometers away and is high up in the mountains, making it isolated to the outside world. We will also interview the cultural inheritor for the Muya language.
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2012 / 30 minutes
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What happens to foreigners when they arrive at China? what obstacles they must overcome? Be sure to watch this week's China Untapped,as we take you into the world of Foreigners living in Shanghai.
DVD (English and Chinese, With Chinese Subtitles) / 2012 / 30 minutes
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Shadow Banking Shadows Over China?
Much attention has been paid to the banking system in China but are you aware of the fact that a large slice of it in fact lives in the shadows? Some of the irregular activities may not sound foreign to you including the so-called wealth management products, off-balance-sheet loans, and underground finance. There are increasing concerns about China's shadow banking system as it has experienced explosive growth. How big a threat does this informal and unregulated lending pose to the economy? And how can China walk out of the shadows? This week's Hotchat will take you to uncover the investments in question and shine some light on the subject.
Having a Good Name in E-Commerce Era
Having a good brand name has always been important for businesses and it turns out that it is also essential to have the right name on the internet. Domain names, those little addresses you type in to find your way around the digital world, can be of value if they are chosen by the right company. Some may worth a surprising amount of money. As the number of internet users in China continues to climb up, buying into the right domain names has become an important task for businesses. This week's Lightbulb will tell you how the domain name market works in China.
DVD / 2012 / 60 minutes
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The End of China's "Demographic Dividends"?
Factory owners in China are having a tough time coming to grips with a severe labor shortage. Young employees complain that factory jobs are boring, and repetitive. And they have higer expectations for the quality of their lives than their parents' generation. What will those expectations mean for the future of China's manufacturing sector?
Dialogue: Management Matters
A business magazine recently listed the 'Top 100 Managers' in China. This week, two of them join us for a discussion about management. What quality they think are the most important in management? What is the biggest challenge managers face? How can they avoid potential conflicts in boss-employee relationships? And we will also see how a manager persuades an employer to take a pay cut through the role-play.
Investment in Beeswax Amber
303 years ago, the Russians began to build a special chamber with amber, then 15 times as expensive as gold. In fact, amber has been treasured since the 4th century B.C. This week we take a look at a special kind of amber, which has grown quickly in value over the past few years -- beeswax amber.
DVD / 2012 / 60 minutes
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Although Sino-Japanese diplomatic relationship was only re-established in 1972 after Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei's China visit, non-government contacts were frequent prior to normalization. Premier Zhou Enlai admonished the Japanese that 'past experience, if not forgotten, is a guide for the future'. But Japan has never admitted to its invasion of China and the atrocities it had committed there. 1970-80 were Sino-Japanese relationship's honeymoon years. Japan's Official Development Assistance helped China build up its infrastructure. Reviews the ebb and flow in diplomatic relationships in ensuing years. Observes that Sino-Japanese relationship will remain like this in the future.
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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In the 1990s, global politics underwent a major reshuffle. As the Soviet Union dissolved and its 15 republics declared independence, China saw the addition of five emerging Central Asian countries along its borders. A new balance has to be found in international politics, and China is forming new relationships with its five new neighbours though new diplomatic thinking and strategies. Kazakhstan declared independence from the Soviet Union in December 1991 and China was among the first countries to recognise its independence. Kazakhstan is the world's largest landlocked country.
With rich natural resources, it borders Xinjiang and has become China's new partner in energy diplomacy. Kazakhstan is the most powerful country among the five countries of Central Asia. Located at the heart of Eurasia, Central Asia has become a major battlefield for the global competition for resources. In May 2004, China and Kazakhstan inked an agreement to build the China-Kazakhstan oil pipeline. This is China's first land pipeline for crude oil import; it reduces the country's reliance on its marine pipeline and hence the risks of importing oil from the Middle East and Africa.
Besides cooperating on energy projects, China and Kazakhstan are also partners in anti-terror efforts. In June 2001, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia founded the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, an anti-terror initiative to fight the forces of terrorism, separatism and extremism. 60 years after its founding, New China is directing its diplomatic efforts towards a brand new way of thinking.
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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Sino-Soviet relations have been a roller coaster ride since New China's founding: from alliance in the 1950s, split in the 1960s, hostility in the 1970s, reconciliation in the 1980s to the Soviet Union's dissolution and China's emergence as a new global power in the 1990s. How have changes in Sino-Soviet relations influenced the development of the international community?
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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The episode presents an overview of major developments in China ' s foreign policies.
The episode examines major developments in China's foreign relations in the 60 years since its founding: one-sided support for the Soviet Union; participating in the Geneva Conference and the international community; proposing the Five Principles for Peaceful Co-existence at the Bandung Conference; export of revolution to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America; keeping a low profile after the June Fourth Incident; and developing partnership diplomacy with great powers and neighbours.
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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While China and Vietnam borders each other, their fates are intricately connected. Yet over the past 60 years, the two socialist powers have gone through good and bad times in their relations. This episode tells the ups and downs of Sino-Vietnamese relations, from a bond stronger than brotherhood, to a dramatic fallout and then hearty reconciliation.
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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China and Indonesia are only a sea apart, and Indonesia has the largest overseas Chinese population in the world, bringing the two countries even closer.
Indonesia built diplomatic relations with the PRC in 1950, and was among the first countries to recognise China's new political regime. In the mid 1950s, with Indonesia ' s help, China was able to attend the Bandung Conference and opened the door to foreign relations with Asian and African countries. Yet in the 1960s, as a new president took office in Indonesia, the country launched a series of anti-communism and anti-Chinese campaigns, which eventually resulted in the breaking up of diplomatic relations.
Sino-Indonesian relations were built in 1950s, severed in 1967 and re-established in the 1990s. In 60 years, the two countries have gone through a great deal to peaceful coexistence today.
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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The Korean Peninsula, located in Northeast Asia, is China's gateway in the northeast, one of immense strategic importance.
In June 1950, the Korean War broke out. New China, despite the urgent need for domestic reconstruction, entered the war with great determination, for its own national security and also to support communist North Korea. China paid a huge price for the war but had North Korea's friendship in exchange. It was a friendship cemented by blood.
In the late 1970s, China implemented its reform and opening-up policy and began to drift away from North Korea ideologically. Then the building of diplomatic relations between China and South Korea in 1992 further damaged Sino-North Korean relations.
Today, as the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula intensifies, all eyes are on the peninsula, as well as China - whether its influence on North Korea will prevail.
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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Neighbouring countries China and India are both ancient Asian civilisations with vast territory and a large population. In 1962 the two countries went to war as a result of border conflicts, and in recent years India granting asylum to the Dalai Lama as well as the issue of Tibetan refugees have created tension in Sino-Indian relations. Yet Sino-Indian economic and trade relations have developed in spite of political disparities. India's advantage in software, combined with China's sufficiently developed infrastructure and hardware, is set to create mutual benefits for the two countries. As emerging BRIC countries, China and India have caused significant concern in western countries. While the two countries compete for power and influence in the international community, they are strategic partners in business and commerce. China and India, enemies and friends all at once, give their best performance on the stage of the world.
DVD / 2009 / 30 minutes
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Some said: "Wherever there is seawater, there are Chinese." Chinese has a long history of emigration, some for business, some for making a living, some for political reasons, at each dynasty with different background. Their decision to stay in a foreign land and their heart-wrenching stories are closely linked to the Chinese history.
5 DVDs / 300 minutes
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