Super grid, green and new, computing engine, boundless connection, intelligent travel era, three cross-Tianshan Mountains, inspection glory, food security... How does scientific and technological innovation empower people's well-being? How does high-quality development concern you and me?
The second season poster of "The Cornerstone of a Nation"
The second season of the large-scale documentary series "The Cornerstone of a Great Power", jointly produced by China Media Group and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, has returned. Starting from December 26, it will be broadcast on CCTV-1 at 18:20, and will be premiered on CCTV Video and CCTV.com. The program deeply explores the development achievements of state-owned central enterprises in people's livelihood security, scientific and technological innovation, and consolidating the foundation of the national economy. With vivid stories, it shows how state-owned central enterprises practice comprehensive deepening of reforms, promote high-quality development towards "new", and play an important role in the process of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
From twinkling lights to brilliant stars, 9.45 trillion kilowatt-hours of annual electricity generation illuminates thousands of households; from extreme-speed engines to super computing power, 230 exaflops of floating-point operations per second stimulate new momentum for China's science and technology; from a well-fed home to a secure world, an annual grain output of more than 1.4 trillion jin makes China's rice bowl more secure... The documentary extends its tentacles to various subdivided vertical fields of national economy and people's livelihood, including grain and oil supply, salt guarantee, food safety, new energy vehicle development, etc., transforming the grand theme of "the country's heavy equipment and the people's lifeline" from the perspective of people's livelihood; at the same time, with the appearance of a series of the world's "bests" and a series of super projects, a picture of the vigorous development of China's major industries unfolds.
Stills from "The Foundation of a Great Nation"
The documentary combines grand narratives with individual stories, closely linking the country's grand development plans with people's lives, and making today's China's high-quality development perceptible and tangible.
Using vivid camera language and easy-to-understand scientific knowledge, the documentary shows that the new quality of productivity is rapidly developing due to technological innovation, which is becoming a powerful engine for promoting national development and improving people's livelihood.
The production team of "The Foundation of a Great Nation" took 10 months to plan and produce, and went to 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions including Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, Fujian and Hainan to shoot. The content involved 13 large central enterprises, more than 60 world-leading technologies and applications, and visited more than ten academicians in the fields of new energy power, power engineering, nutrition and food safety, metallurgical analysis, etc., bringing a vivid interpretation of "Chinese-style modernization with people's livelihood as the top priority". The program continues to uphold the creative concept of "thought + art + technology" of the Central Radio and Television Station, integrating macro perspectives and micro expressions, going up to the sky and into the earth, through mountains and into the sea, using special shooting methods such as macro and underwater, supplemented by visual presentations such as data visualization, to show how China today is accelerating the development of new quality productivity and injecting inexhaustible vitality into economic operations.
