ID: 8350898
Dateline: Recent
Location: China;
Duration: 1’58
Source: China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland
Published: 2023-11-13 21:00
Last Modified: 2023-11-13 22:38
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Residents of Yuansi Village in east China’s Anhui Province compiled village annals to record changes of the region in the course of Chinese modernization, as told by an episode of a China Media Group documentary series.
Titled “Snapshots of Modernization”, the documentary tells stories about the changes in every aspect of the life of ordinary people.
This episode focuses on how the village annals record the long history and rich cultural deposits of the region and changes of the village throughout the years under the Beautiful Countryside Program. The annals also create a sense of belonging, bring spiritual wealth and make the villagers proud of their culture.
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 more 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.
