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This is a reality-themed documentary narrated and recorded by "others" to depict China's contemporary development and changes.
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01:59Yudu, a small city in southern Jiangxi province, standing on both banks of the Yudu River.
02:08In October 1934, the weather was very pleasant. Warm in the day, cool at night, and barely any rain.
02:22The Red Army had collected a lot of rice during the summer, and the number of conscripts was far higher than usual.
02:30At that time, almost all the military forces of the Chinese Soviet Republic had gathered right here along this riverbank, the Yudu, and ready to make their crossing.
02:45Now, this operation had to be kept absolutely secret and was, by every single one of the more than 200,000 citizens of Yudu City.
02:55This crossing was absolutely essential to the survival of the new state power.
03:02The river's got about the same width as the River Thames in London, where I come from.
03:24Now, right here is the most important of the 10 ferry ports that they encountered during the year, and it really was the pinnacle moment of the whole long march.
03:35Back then, there was no bridge across the Yudu River, fortunately, the Red Army could rely on the support of local fishermen, and a makeshift pontoon bridge of small fishing boats and wooden planks was lashed together, so the 80,000 Red Army soldiers could get across the river.
03:55Completing a military operation on such a scale over the course of five separate nighttime operations was a truly incredible feat, one that would have been impossible without the support of the local people.
04:09To help the Red Army get across the river, Liu Chongpei's family donated their door panels for the pontoon bridge.
04:33This doorway, for example, is missing half its panels.
04:45In the years of war that followed, maintaining old houses like this was not a major priority, one reason why traces of that historic episode have survived.
04:56But what made people want to help the Red Army?
04:58Why did the new Soviet Republic inspire such devotion?
05:13I'm in a village just outside of Rijin City, and this was the birthplace of China's first national red political power.
05:21It was also the interim central government of the then Chinese Soviet Republic.
05:28Now, to a large extent, it could be said that this was the initial or the embryonic form of today's Chinese political organization.
05:37It was here that in winter 1931, a group of ambitious Chinese communists created their first independent national political system.
05:51Its purpose was threefold, to organize armed resistance against foreign aggression, to realize political demands for workers and peasants, and to strive for the fundamental interests of the majority of the Chinese people.
06:08It was nothing less than one of the greatest social experiments of the 20th century, one with a legacy that endures today, and which has had a huge impact on the world.
06:22Lots of people are curious to understand how today's China has achieved so much growth and development in just a few decades.
06:33Now, on the journey I'm about to embark on, exploration and investigation, while it's a big question to answer fully, hopefully we can find some key information, get really close, and answer the question, where has today's China come from?
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07:33We're just in China.
07:37Honestly, we can see that.
07:39They're going through the first step.
07:44This brings home a very important point.
07:46Rather than simply being the military base of the revolutionary movement,
07:51the Soviet was home to a fully functioning government,
07:54all in an area of just 0.1 square kilometers.
07:59Just as Europeans had for centuries explored ideas about a perfect society
08:04in books like Plato's The Republic and Thomas More's Utopia,
08:09so too were the people of the early Soviet.
08:12What's more, they were doing more than simply playing with ideals,
08:15they were creating a concrete reality.
08:45And then the Soviet government also encouraged women to learn文化.
08:53So from the body and body,
08:55they were able to participate in the freedom of women,
08:57they would also participate in the sports competition,
08:59they would participate in the society's activities.
09:02They would sing this song,
09:03父女解放歌
09:05我在这给你学唱一遍
09:06一早起来 做到日落兮
09:11雨打风吹 有谁认知
09:16真真痛苦呀 真真可怜呀
09:20劝我父女们快快觉悟起
09:33Within the Chinese Soviet Republic, both men and women began completely new lives
09:44The toiling masses, oppressed and enslaved for so long, began to awaken
09:56People sang new songs, performed new plays, spreading the new culture of modern civilization
10:02In this new society, the inherent dignity of labor was enough to earn a person equality and respect
10:11In August 1934, the then Kuomintang government launched the biggest encirclement and suppression campaign to date
10:25Now due to the enormous disparity between the strength of the two sides
10:30The Soviet government was forced to make a decision to abandon its base areas
10:35They then collected along the riverbank of the Yudul River and then began a strategic shift
10:41Now at this time, the normal people, the common folk, still threw their entire support behind the Soviet army
10:49Because they believed that this was the people's army, their army
10:5315 years later, this army would triumph and extend the form of government it had pioneered to the whole country
11:06Establishing new China
11:08Much to the benefit of ordinary people, like the fishermen who helped them cross the Yudu River
11:13Beginning in the 1960s, the government began helping the fishermen settle on land
11:19I found a member of the fishing community to have a chat with
11:27But now he doesn't drive a boat on the water, he actually drives a bus on the road
11:32Hello
11:36Hello
11:38Li Guofa is an ordinary bus driver in Yudu
11:47He still remembers the days when he lived on a fishing boat as a child
11:53Did you say it was very hard at that time?
11:55Yes, it was very hard
11:55There was a snowstorm and a snowstorm and a snowstorm
12:01Where is the snow?
12:03There is a snowstorm
12:04It has no wind, it will fall down from the sea
12:09It has a high tide
12:10There is no wind, it has been a blessing
12:12Currently I didn't have a new family of the time
12:13I was not standing in the morning
12:16It's not a busy day
12:18The wind was going to last
12:20The rain was going to last
12:22When we passed on the ship, the wind was falling on the ice
12:25The wind was going from here
12:25What was the day, it wasn't going on
12:27We didn't think about it
12:29Nothing was going on
12:32You were going to die now
12:33For example, the safety, the safe, the security, etc., etc.
12:39It's absolutely a huge increase, right?
12:42Yes, it's been stronger than before.
12:45I remember that I had a former former president.
12:48You must remember him.
12:50He was very confident.
12:54We sent him to the president.
12:57He helped us.
12:59We are grateful.
13:01Beginning in the 1960s, the local government began putting in place practical initiatives
13:09aimed at helping the fishermen.
13:11This is a housing development specifically built for them.
13:16After decades of construction, Yudu now hosts several such housing developments.
13:22Here, fishermen's children can go to school and have more choices in life.
13:31After getting off work, Mr. Li invites me to take a trip in his personal car to go to dinner with some actual fishermen.
13:51In Yudu today, a small number of fishermen have chosen to remain living on fishing boats.
13:56Each boat is licensed for legitimate fishing.
14:01Whether on the river or on the land, each Yudu citizen works hard in pursuit of the life they want.
14:15This sense of freedom is why the Yudu people gave their full support to get the Red Army across the river all those years ago.
14:23I'm in the Memorial Hall for the Great March departure site, right next to the Yudu ferry crossing.
14:37And there is a lot of really good information here, but this one for me is really worth noting.
14:55This is the Yudu County or the Yudu Town's number of conscripts, so the people that actually directly joined the Red Army from Yudu Town.
15:07So between June and September 1934, just before the Red Army set off on the Long March, the conscripts from Yudu Town alone reached 23,369.
15:19And that means that when the Red Army set off on the Long March, for every five soldiers, one of them was right here from Yudu Town.
15:28Once there was a young tailor from Yudu Town, and when he set off on the Long March with the Red Army, he took a sewing machine on his back.
15:43Now along the way, he'd fix all the uniforms and the clothes, the socks for the soldiers that he could.
15:49And he also, using this sewing machine, made and fixed clothes for Chairman Mao himself.
16:03Time to track down the grandson of that Yudu tailor.
16:11Maybe it's not surprising that he also works in the clothing industry.
16:15Yeah, you'll need to take a seat.
16:16Go, go, go, go, go.
16:17Maybe it's because of his influence, you're doing this now?
16:21Yes, because I was in the house and I could study people in the UK.
16:23And I was in the village and then I went to the Royal Royal Royal Royal Royal Royal Royal.
16:27My mother asked me, you're so small and what are you going to get out of?
16:30I said, I realized that what happened happened.
16:34My grandfather was doing clothes, so I learned to wear clothes.
16:38At the time, we still haven't developed a lot ofices.
16:40We're very poor, in many places we still haven't used up a lot of stores.
16:42So I remember that when I used the first year, I was going to make clothes.
16:44When I first started working in 1993, when I came back to the year, I would wear a牛仔裤.
16:51I would wear a牛仔裤 outside, and I would say,
16:53''Wow, your牛仔裤 looks really good. I would buy them outside.''
16:57I said, ''Yes, this is what we do. I wear the first牛仔裤.''
17:01Nowadays, Yudu's clothing industry is so prosperous
17:05that many migrants who left here in pursuit of opportunity elsewhere have returned home.
17:10Ge Jiu-Chan now hopes to realize his own entrepreneurial dreams in his hometown.
17:15Now, I'm just going to keep these experiences.
17:18I still want to go to my own business.
17:21Now, I always want to go to my own business.
17:23I always want to go to my own business.
17:24I think this is very good.
17:25This is another way to respect my own business.
17:28This one is going to be on this list.
17:31You want me to try it?
17:33I try it?
17:343, 2, 1.
17:36Why?
17:394, 3, 2, 1.
17:415, 3, 2, 1.
17:435, 3, 2, 1.
17:46There was a time when tailoring in Yudu was a very traditional occupation.
17:53But times change.
17:55Nowadays, Yudu's clothing industry is at the cutting edge of a technological revolution.
18:00By utilizing smart technology, distant customers can share their personal specifications.
18:06This way, Yudu tailors can combine the advantages of mass production with the tailor-made approach.
18:13At present, a quarter of Yudu's population work in the clothing industry.
18:30For the last five years, each year has seen over 10,000 villagers who had left to become migrant workers return here.
18:38The county government has invested nearly 3 billion yuan over three years in building public facilities, such as training centers, subsidized housing to attract industry talent, and garment testing centers.
18:51Thanks to these efforts, as well as the National Poverty Alleviation Program, Yudu now boasts 2,200 textile and garment enterprises, five listed companies, and a total industrial output exceeding 40 billion yuan.
19:08The newly established Soviet regime here attached great importance to doing business with all kinds of people.
19:28This was the Jiankou branch of the Foreign Trade Bureau, established in 1933.
19:34There were three other branches, and ten procurement offices, forming an extensive external trade network.
19:41This Jiankou branch was the first customs office in the Chinese Soviet.
19:47Because Jiangxi is surrounded by mountains on three sides, for a long time, the trade activities here mainly relied upon limited water transportation.
20:02But now, villagers here are using new economic models to open up trade routes to other parts of the country, even to the world.
20:10But now, villagers here have a food that is a household of the Japan Society and the people who have studied nature to get their food, due to the world.
20:13This is my local market.
20:15How many people have made my屋 made by the Japanese RBI's in Iran?
20:18Thank you import.
20:19Here?
20:20Oh, here.
20:21Here?
20:22Here, here.
20:23Here, here.
20:24Right, here.
20:25Just like to throw this in.
20:26Or half of the plant.
20:27Oh, it's hot in the water.
20:28Yes.
20:29It's really tasty.
20:30It's really tasty.
20:31It's sweet.
20:32It's rooted.
20:33Really tasty.
20:34It's really tasty.
20:35Grandma Liaou's sootie duck eggs are justly famous,
20:38justly famous. But in the past, not many people had the chance to eat them.
21:08Upon his graduation in Beijing, Zhang Yang, grandma Liao's grandson, was called back by
21:21his grandma to help sell sorted duck eggs. Now he's in charge of the whole production process.
21:30With the local farmers' e-commerce service center as its production base,
21:34grandma Liao's sorted duck eggs had become a famous local brand. Whenever Zhang Yang takes an order,
21:41a China Post express truck arrives on time to pick up the eggs and deliver them across the country.
21:55Having made full use of the internet economy,
22:05grandma Liao's sorted duck eggs have spurred on and revolutionized almost everyone's lives in the
22:12village. In these ponds, they now have well over 30,000 ducks, which they collect the eggs from,
22:19sort them and sell them every day. And I tell you now, it's incredible. We can see them all running
22:25away and swimming, which is great to see. But now, honestly, I think if I added up all of the ducks
22:30I've ever seen in my whole life together, it would only be a tiny fraction of the ducks right here.
22:35It's amazing.
22:39The sorted duck eggs cooperative took in almost 100 poor households from the town.
22:44Two years into the project, almost all had left poverty behind thanks to farming ducks.
22:54...
23:02...
23:05Now we have $500,000, but we have to make it bigger.
23:10You can get $300,000 in the morning.
23:14How much is the price of the price?
23:15More than a dollar.
23:17More than a dollar.
23:19That's $300,000.
23:21$300,000.
23:26Remote villages and towns have begun to learn about using emerging economic models to improve their lives.
23:33Recent transformations have relied upon a telecommunications network that now covers even the remotest parts of rural China.
23:47Nankang has a lot in common with Yudu.
23:49Both share a spirit of making the most of what they have.
23:53But, whereas tailoring is Yudu's traditional money spinner, Nankang's is carpentry.
23:59Nankang, however, has chosen to revive its traditions in a very different way from Yudu.
24:07Thanks to local government initiatives, Nankang is full of museums, exhibition halls, and furniture design centers.
24:15There are many of the leaders of this project,
24:17and the government I think is very important.
24:23The government is thinking about creating this project.
24:24We want to try to attract the local business leaders,
24:26and attract the software, and the software, and the business people.
24:28We need to reach this project.
24:30We need to reach this project.
24:31We've already have 100 million dollars.
24:33We have 100 million dollars in our company.
24:35We have to be able to reach this project.
24:36If we work with our companies in the city,
24:40we will pay half of the construction fees.
24:44This is a very interesting challenge.
24:47Half of the?
24:47Yes.
24:48Like Finland, Italy, and西班牙,
24:51they were going to be a designer.
24:52They just say,
24:53they are not able to imagine.
24:57Hi, Laura.
24:58Hi, yes.
24:59Hi, I'm Scott.
25:00Hi, nice to meet you.
25:02So we are preparing for a design exhibition
25:06next year in Milan.
25:07It's basically the most famous design exhibition in the world.
25:10Very famous, yeah.
25:13So I'm very excited.
25:15And we start working very hard on the design,
25:19and we will start very soon about product development.
25:22You're Italian, Italian studio,
25:25Chinese influence, Chinese kind of feeling to some of it.
25:29What are you expecting people to say?
25:32I think it's going to be a good surprise for the market.
25:36Amazingly, this furniture town has brought in six internationally renowned design agencies
25:43and more than 200 first-class domestic ones.
25:47In 2019 alone, these high-end teams provided design services for over 2,000 companies,
25:54with their design products generating sales of nearly 30 billion yuan.
26:01This is a shared material preparation centre for intelligent manufacturing,
26:06jointly built by a PhD team from the Beijing Institute of Technology.
26:11Digital, unmanned and intelligent high-end furniture production
26:16has completely revolutionised the furniture industry in Nankang.
26:22In a workshop of this size, all I see are robots working in an orderly fashion.
26:28These AI robots don't just recognise the colour and quality of the wood materials,
26:40they also know when to send them and to which port.
26:44Nankang, formerly home to humble carpenters,
26:49is now fast becoming the country's largest furniture manufacturing base,
26:53and an industrial cluster with a value of no less than 100 billion yuan.
26:59Not far from the furniture town is the Ganzhou International Land Port.
27:09Now this is the first and the only direct port for importing timber in the inland area of the country.
27:18Now from here, it sends out and it radiates to 18 countries and regions along the Belt and Route
27:25initiative route, creating a very efficient port and of course a logistics channel
27:31for what we call buying international timber and selling furniture internationally.
27:42Since March 2021, the China Europe Railway Express freight train service at the Ganzhou
27:48International Port Station switched to a busier schedule, now running once every two days
27:54instead of two or three times a week. The X9238 China Europe train, loaded with 50 standard
28:01containers of goods, such as machinery and equipment, fridges and daily necessities,
28:07is leaving the station to Tashkent Uzbekistan.
28:14Today, China's development is having a profound impact on the world.
28:31In Jiangxi, you can get a glimpse of the place where the CPC's first attempts at practical governance took place.
28:38It's amazing to think that this comprehensive, scientifically grounded social experiment is still going on.
28:46Staying loyal to its original goal of realising the fundamental interests of the people,
28:52the CPC continues to enjoy the support of the Chinese people, who are hardworking, intelligent and tenacious.
28:59These characteristics, hand-in-hand with the political grit and determination, explain why China is what it is today.
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