Many are the legends about the secrets of Kung Fu! But when it comes to the rich heritage of Shaolin Kung Fu, where does fantasy end and truth begin? In this episode, we’ll explore the Kung Fu secrets that have lay buried for centuries and peer into the future.

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

The Shaolin Temple is a doubly sacred place. For not only is it one of China’s most sacred Buddhist temples, it is also the revered home of Chinese Kung Fu! But despite their devotion to a common religious vocation, the path of Kung Fu has taken the monks of the temple in many different directions.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

While few people would imagine that a desert backwater could be transformed into a world-famous wine producing region in three decades, this is exactly what has happened in northwestern China’s Ningxia region. What features of Ningxia have made it a magnet for people coming from far and wide? And what factors have brought about such a dramatic change?

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Who would have thought it? Ningxia, that once dry and barren land, now world-famous for its luscious grapes and wine! More than anything this miracle is down to the greatest gift of all that nature has bestowed on Ningxia: the mighty Yellow River! Quite apart from the great role it’s played in shaping a great civilization, it’s the waters of the Yellow River that account for the distinctive flavors of Ningxia wines!

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Lacquerware making has been around for 7,000 years in China. The ancient craft attracted French artist Vincent Cazeneuve to set up a studio in Chongqing. Now in the southwestern Chinese city for over a decade, he has been incorporating his own style and Western aesthetics to bring a new look to traditional Chinese lacquerware.

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Born and raised in the midst of a world-famous wine culture, Christelle Chene grew up tasting the best vintages in her native France. Yet the varieties of grape she has encountered in northern China’s Ningxia have given her a fresh angle on both wine culture and life. Attracted by a new path of career development and the hospitality of Ningxia’s local people, she has decided to make the region her home.

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Laurent Long is a Frenchman obsessed with the written characters of Chinese, as well as the language’s ancient forms. Because of his outstanding work cutting traditional Chinese seals, he became the first foreigner as a member of China’s Xiling Society of Seal Arts in 100 years. These days, he is a keen promoter of the craft.

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Egypt’s New Administrative Capital is currently under construction in the desert. In 2023, Chinese companies will complete and deliver 20 high-rise buildings in the Central Business District. Wang Yao is the only woman among the project's ten managers. In her team, Egyptians and Chinese are working side by side to make a new city block rise from the desert.

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Ordos in north China’s Inner Mongolia is the location for Asia’s first pilot demonstration of a project aimed at capturing carbon dioxide and storing it in salt water. Now the time has come for Dr. Wang Yongsheng and his team to expand annual storage capacity to one million tonnes - in harmful emissions reduction terms equivalent to planting nearly 2,000 hectares of forest!

Editor: Luo Wen

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Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying

Soleil is a musician and a young mother from Siem Reap in Cambodia. For more than eight years, she’s been a dedicated member of the local theatrical troupe. Thanks to talented performers like her, and a much-needed injection of professional theater design and technology courtesy of a Chinese company, the Smile of Ankor show has become a must-see theatrical extravaganza showcasing the beauty of Cambodian culture, bringing extra income for local performers like Soleil.

Editor: Luo Wen

Operation: Qiu Ruiqi

Producer: Li Xin

Chief Editor: Zhang Wan

Supervisor: Liu Changying