As New Year's Day is approaching, Shanghai Radio and Television Station will be completely renewed. Through the five major renewals of new layout, new programs, new experience, new faces and new vision, the brand-new program will showcase Shanghai's urban temperament, spread Shanghai's urban culture and highlight Shanghai's diverse atmosphere.
1. Dragon TV ignites the power of "renewal" and presents the expectations for the new year in a diverse manner
On New Year's Eve, Dragon TV will meet you at 19:30 on December 31st, and present a unique New Year's Eve celebration "Dreams Come True in the East·2025 Dragon TV New Year's Eve Celebration" with the innovative power of "Super City".
The gala will be themed "Super City 2025, Make Better Happen", creating a three-dimensional "immersive" stage design, combining innovative artistic expressions with urban trends, and showcasing the profound heritage of Shanghai's traditional culture and the innovative vitality of international urban culture. Cai Qin, Sandy Lam, Chen Derong, Xiao Qiang, Hu Ge, Tan Jianci, Huang Jingyu, Mao Buyi, Shang Wenjie, Su Xing and others will take the stage to present wonderful programs for the audience.
"Dreams Come True in the East·2025 Dragon TV New Year's Eve Gala"
The Shanghai Citizens' New Year's Day Climbing and Blessing Run at the Oriental Pearl Tower has become a tradition in Shanghai to celebrate the arrival of the New Year with the beautiful meaning of "good luck every year", and attracts a large number of citizens to actively participate every year. From 09:00 to 10:00 on January 1, 2025, Dragon TV, Five Star Sports Channel, Kankan News APP, and Kandongfang APP will simultaneously broadcast the 2025 Shanghai Citizens' New Year's Day Climbing and Blessing Run at the Oriental Pearl Tower, and feel the warm atmosphere at the Oriental Pearl Tower together.
From 10:00 to 12:00 on January 1, Dragon TV, News Comprehensive Channel, Kankan News APP, and Kandongfang APP carefully launched the "2025 Sunrise in the East, Chasing the Light of Technology" New Year's Eve integrated media live broadcast, continuing to focus on the theme of "Sunrise in the East, Chasing the Light of Technology", with time as the line and technology as the axis, showing a panoramic picture of China's scientific and technological innovation in all directions, multiple angles, and three-dimensionally, showing a panoramic view of the extraordinary journey of the Chinese nation's unremitting struggle, and bringing a brand new technological experience to the audience and netizens.
In addition to the exciting broadcasts on New Year's Day and New Year's Eve, in 2025, Dragon TV will undergo a comprehensive upgrade and launch new programs with diverse genres and ingenious ideas to meet the audience's diverse viewing needs.
New platform for national communication : Starting from New Year's Day, Dragon TV will launch a new English magazine program "ShanghaiEye" from 12:30 to 12:45 every Monday to Friday, targeting foreigners at home and abroad, providing timely and useful service information, focusing on Shanghai's urban life, finance, technology, culture and sports, etc., telling good Chinese stories and spreading the wonderfulness of Shanghai.
New expression of people's livelihood: The brand column "Famous Doctors Talk about Health" will be fully renewed and upgraded. It will be broadcast from 17:30 from Monday to Friday starting from January 1. Through the service scene of the "pop-up hospital", the care concentration of medical and health programs will be further enhanced, and an innovative program with public welfare medical and health services as the main model will be created, allowing famous doctors to walk among the citizens and record real medical stories.
Dragon TV has also created two new cultural and tourism programs using cities as the medium, "The Next Stop" and "Love Shanghai", to bring viewers a unique experience of "checking in with Dragon TV".
Every Monday at 22:40, the cultural exploration program "Next Stop" passes through the Yangtze River Delta intercity railway belt, goes deep into various cultural venues in the city, and immersively experiences the different lifestyles of urban people in the Yangtze River Delta's "free shipping zone". The million-dollar Internet celebrity "G Sengdong" and talk show actor "Uncle Fu" who are popular on the Internet have also joined the "Old Boy Visiting Group" of "Next Stop".
The urban aesthetics program "Love Shanghai" will be broadcast every Thursday at 22:00 starting from January 2. With the main content of "professional drama watching and in-depth exhibition exploration", it will lead the audience to "swept away" the latest information in all fields of Shanghai's culture, commerce, exhibitions, sports and tourism, and bring the most aesthetically concentrated cultural life guide to the Magic City, creating a trendy and pioneering urban cultural business card.
New start for news : In 2025, Dragon TV will also focus on technological innovation and high-end financial programs. The new cutting-edge science and innovation program "Anchor Point" will be launched every Wednesday from 22:00 to 22:30 starting from January 1. The program will invite well-known scientists from home and abroad to engage in dialogue around cutting-edge technology hotspots, anchor the direction of innovation with professional views, in-depth observations, and strategic thinking, and show the strategic highland effect of Shanghai as a technological innovation center with global influence.
The high-end financial program "Liang Shuo" will invite representatives who have both social influence and financial professional background to provide high-quality financial analysis that is knowledgeable, nourishing and guiding through hard-core dialogues and collisions of ideas.
The cutting-edge scientific thought show "Future China" is broadcast every Saturday at 21:30, leading the trend of the times, embodying the warm background of variety shows, and conveying positive energy.
New perspective on dramas and variety shows : In 2025, Dragon TV's variety shows and TV dramas will be more fashionable, more diverse, more fresh, and more integrated. Starting from January 1, the prime-time Dragon TV Theater will broadcast the drama "True Heroes", which is based on the real stories of heroic role models and collectives, showing the true style of political and legal police officers protecting the safety and peace of the people.
The 21:00 "Quality Oriental Micro Theater" enriches the big screen with "small but beautiful" micro-short plays. From January 1, it will broadcast "A Chinese Odyssey" and "Seven Two Life". "A Chinese Odyssey" is a costume comedy short play derived from Stephen Chow's classic movie "A Chinese Odyssey", telling a new story line 500 years after the movie. "Seven Two Life" is the first virtual production suspense short play in China, showing the story of a woman overcoming multiple difficulties and ultimately achieving self-growth.
A Chinese Odyssey
Dragon TV has also newly established a late-night "Overseas Theater", which is positioned as "international vision, classic review", and selects new overseas dramas and classic dubbed films. The first batch of dramas, "Moment of Victory: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty", will be broadcast one episode per day from 24:00 on December 27, taking the audience back to this team that once defined an era.
"Moment of Victory: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty"
Starting from January 3, 2025, at 20:00 on Fridays, Dragon TV will launch the third season of the character story program "My Time and Me", focusing on outstanding Chinese representatives in various fields such as literature, art, sports, etc. around the world, and conveying the value orientation of optimism, hard work and innovation.
The public welfare environmental protection program "Moving Forward (Season 2)" is initiated by Hu Ge, Liu Tao, and Chen Long, and co-participated by guest artists such as Liu Shishi, Yuan Hong, Wang Yuheng, Lin Yi, and Hu Bingqing. Under the leadership of science blogger "Infinitely Small Liang", it will actively explore the topic of "harmonious coexistence between man and nature" through field visits and personally participated documentary filming.
"Onward (Season 2)"
In addition, Dragon TV will launch a daily entertainment information program "Eastern New Entertainment" from 17:00 Monday to Friday, capturing behind-the-scenes stories with the camera and creating a weather vane for urban entertainment.
New documentary communication : Dragon TV's "New Documentary" weekly program at 22:00 every Tuesday night will continue to launch excellent documentary productions in the pursuit of "truth illuminates life". From January 7, "Above the Fields" will be broadcast. The film focuses on the theme of rural revitalization, shows successful practice cases of beautiful rural construction, and tells the great changes that have taken place in rural China since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. "Cultural China" and "The Interests of the People" and other high-quality documentaries will be broadcast in this time period.
In addition, in 2025, Dragon TV will launch two new daily documentary program strips at 6 a.m. from Monday to Sunday and 11 p.m. from Monday to Friday, broadcasting excellent documentaries such as "Home and Country", "Why China", "Asia", and "Forever Walking: Encounter with China 2".
2. The "Watch the East" APP sets sail in the new year, opening up the "Most Shanghai" treasure house
The new media main platform of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, "Kandongfang" APP (formerly BesTV), has been fully upgraded and will launch two 24-hour live video streams, "ShanghaiEye" and "New Documentary". At the same time, various special areas will be added to dig deep into SMG's high-quality content, opening the "Most Shanghai" treasure trove in one stop.
The "New Year's Eve" section invites you to jointly unlock the Super City's 2025 New Year's Eve interactive live broadcast room, which will broadcast the six major New Year's Eve Galas of Dragon TV, Jiangsu TV, Zhejiang TV, Beijing TV, Sichuan TV, and Anhui TV. There are also five annual speeches that inspire new ideas and deep thoughts, bringing the power of knowledge to everyone who strives to move forward.
In the "Nostalgia" section , you can review classic images and find spiritual comfort. You can find the "New Three Items" in "Shanghai Story", learn dialect covers with "Intellectual Surfing", listen to the familiar youth melody in "Sixteen Years Old", and taste the laughter and joy of the years in "Red Tea House".
The "Documentary" section traces the humanities and cities and experiences life under real cameras. "Moving Forward" marks the scales of the universe between mountains, rivers, seas and land; "Why China" questions Chinese civilization in the vast historical materials... There is also a "Documentary 24 Hours" column, which broadcasts high-quality documentaries around the clock, presenting China's brilliant and profound history and culture, rapidly developing economy and technology, and lively and interesting daily life.
The "Image Gallery" area has been upgraded. A landmark is half of the city's history. The Bund, Nanjing Road, Lujiazui, "Wutong District", Wukang Building, Pudong Art Museum, West Bund Art Center... As new urban cultural landmarks are promoted to the top, "See the East" will take you to read the fragments of stories hidden deep in the streets and alleys. In tracing the roots of the city's background, you will understand the past and present of Shanghai's landmarks and find your own city memory.
The music section of "Enjoy the Scene, Enjoy the East" deeply explores SMG's rich mine of high-quality music and offline venue resources. "Eastern Billboard" unearths the wonderful stages of those years of single loops, "My Style My Show" invites you to watch all the classic talent show clips, and "Our Song" sings out the youthful style with music.
3. Welcome the New Year with joy in the fireworks city, and enjoy a colorful life with warm company
Other channels, frequencies, new media platforms and SMG Performing Arts Group under Shanghai Radio and Television will also accompany you warmly to welcome the beautiful 2025.
The Urban Channel will launch four new programs in 2025.
Starting from January 1st, at 19:00 from Monday to Friday, the information and consumption program "LOHAS Shanghai" will focus on the core consumption ecology of "culture, commerce, tourism, sports and exhibitions". Through the studio host's mobile phone circle of friends, various information contents will be connected to show the charm of Shanghai in all aspects.
Starting from January 2nd at 20:00 on Thursday, "Urban Renewal Home" will work with home improvement customers to create customized after-sales service and consumer data tracking and maintenance plans, and is committed to building a one-stop service platform for home consumption concepts centered around "home" as the core element.
In the future, the all-outdoor lifestyle program "Global Hometown Taste" will be launched in succession, presenting the current situation of foreigners from all walks of life living in Shanghai in detail, telling humanistic stories with food as the clue, and showing the humanistic sentiment of "wherever my heart is at peace is my hometown". "Walking in Jiangnan" focuses on cultural tourism in the Yangtze River Delta region, and will create cultural tourism content with both picture quality and user experience from the perspective of travel UP hosts.
Five Star Sports Channel, New Media Matrix and Kandongfang APP will broadcast the women's team finals and men's team finals of the 2024 China Table Tennis Club Super League Finals at 11:00 and 19:00 on January 1. The four men's and women's teams that emerged from the first stage of the competition in Changsha, Hunan will face off at the Shanghai Stadium.
The China Business Network Channel will broadcast "2024 Year-End Talk: Devout Walkers of the Times" at 19:30 on January 1, gathering new wisdom and strength, showcasing the core topic of "Talking about the times and me, looking at the world and China", and using a 1V1 walking conversation between big names, using more delicate brushstrokes and more comprehensive expressions to understand the world, tell the story of China, observe the times, discover individuals, and welcome 2025.
Haha Xuandong Satellite TV will open up the animation theater and present cartoons such as "Newsboy Stories", "Stubborn Little Red Army", "Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains", "Nuwa Mending the Sky", "The Big Monster in the Forbidden City" and so on during the New Year's Day to satisfy the young audiences.
"Dynamic 101 Golden Melody New Year's Countdown" has been with you for 20 years. Starting at 7:00 a.m. on December 31, 2024, Dynamic 101 will launch a special live broadcast throughout the day. An all-star DJ lineup will accompany listeners and netizens to count down to the 2024 Golden Melody Awards.
SMG Performing Arts Group will launch the immersive drama "Sleepless Night" Shanghai version 2024-2025 "Infinite Immersion" New Year's Eve Carnival, interactive market, countdown party, art installations, cabaret singing and dancing, this entertainment feast will bring "infinite immersion, infinite carnival" to every VIP visiting the McKinnon Hotel. Shanghai Drama Arts Center introduced and produced the Chinese version of the British comedy "Delete Friends", which tells a series of absurd stories about a British couple who met a mysterious American friend. The performance will be held during the New Year's Day until January 12, 2025.
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