ID: 8350935
Dateline: Recent
Location: China;
Duration: 1’57
Source: China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland
Published: 2023-11-14 04:14
Last Modified: 2023-11-14 05:07
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Haoyuan Village in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was once a poverty-stricken desert settlement. An episode of China Media Group’s new documentary series “Snapshots of Modernization” shows how an environmental protection campaign in 2008 turned it into a prosperous, wine growing hub.
Fifteen years ago, local authorities decided to grow vines in Haoyuan, a way not only to increase farmers’ incomes but also to block the wind and help prevent sandstorms that had plagued this place.
This visionary decision has helped protect the local environment and modernize local agriculture. Now, 70 percent of Haoyuan residents are involved in the wine industry and their average annual income has risen by almost 30,000 yuan (about 4,114 U.S. dollars).
Chinese modernization is socialist modernization pursued under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. It contains elements that are common to the modernization processes of all countries, but it has features that are unique to the Chinese context.
Chinese modernization is characterized by the following features: it is the modernization of a huge population, the modernization of common prosperity for all, the modernization of material and cultural-ethical advancement, the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature, and the modernization of peaceful development.
