At New Year, on the big screen in Times Square, New York, a Tibetan-style New Year greeting grabbed the attention of passersby. Behind it was a dynamic young team whose members are using innovative ways of presenting traditional Tibetan culture to the world.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Returning pastureland to grassland is an integral part of ecological restoration efforts in Tibet Autonomous Region. To provide recovery projects with enough plants to cover areas of restoration, a group of young scientists are working tirelessly at high altitude, searching for and cultivating suitable plants on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. They are staunch protectors of the plateau environment.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Located in the Xiong'an New Area in north China's Hebei Province, Lake Baiyangdian is the largest freshwater lake in north China. Years of pollution and drought had nearly dried it up. But thanks to the ecological restoration that was part of the new area’s development, older locals are happy to see that the clear and lucid waters they remember from their youth have now returned.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Cage culture fish farming used to bring decent incomes for local villagers in Panzhihua of southwest China's Sichuan Province. But the rising scale of the practice also harmed the environment of the Yangtze River's upper reaches. Encouraged by the local government, some villagers have switched to growing mangoes, making use of well-suited local conditions.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

The paper industry on the banks of the Fuchun River in Zhejiang was closed down to develop the local green economy. Zhu Meijuan from Huanggongwang Village made use of a tourism boom in the area and opened the village's first guesthouse. Today, the beautiful natural environment there is providing locals with a sustainable development opportunity.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

In 2003, Changxing County in the coastal province of Zhejiang took the lead in implementing China’s “river chief system”, for which a single official is assigned responsibility for his or her own section of river or lake. Today, Qin Weijuan is among the many river chiefs across the country whose task is to protect its clean waters.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

The last episode shows how Cao Xueqin, a man who’d witnessed the country’s best days and endured its worst hardships, managed to sublimate his experience into a plaintive yet beautiful elegy to a bygone era and its lost ideals.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Wang Xifeng is another vividly-portrayed female character in A Dream of Red Mansions. Though victimized in a patriarchal family for not bearing a son, she also, ironically, serves as a defender of the decadent feudal society.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Lin Daiyu, the heroine of A Dream of Red Mansions, is regarded as the most prominent female protagonist in classic Chinese literature. The mutual affection between her and the principal male character Jia Baoyu, both immortals in their previous lives, has become iconic in Chinese culture.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

The Prospect Garden, a picturesque paradise, is the setting for much of the story in A Dream of Red Mansions. Mainly inhabited by bright, vivacious, intelligent and passionate girls, it’s a beautiful dream-like place. But just beneath the idyllic surface lurk the conflicts and vengeances of the real world.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying