《Wild China》 is the first joint production by China Central Television and the British Broadcasting Corporation. It captured more than 56 national wildlife and scenic reserves, 86 species of China's rare wild animals and plants, and more than 30 ethnic groups.Life stories show China’s natural and cultural landscape.The shooting lasted for 4 years, using advanced photography technologies such as aerial photography, infrared, high-speed, time-lapse and underwater, and recorded a large number of precious and wonderful pictures.

《Wild China》is divided into《Splendid South China》,《Clouds in the Sky》,《Magical Plateau》《Beyond the Wind and Snow Wall》《Fertile Central Plains》《Tidal Coast》-Six episodes (the names of the BBC English version correspond to 《Rich South China》, 《South of Colorful Clouds》, 《Qinghai-Tibet Plateau》, 《Beyond the Great Wall》, 《Dragon's Territory》, 《Noisy Coast》); The entire film captures more than 50 national wildlife and scenic reserves in China, 86 species of China's rare wild animals and plants, and more than 30 ethnic life stories, showing China's natural and cultural landscape.

Splendid South China

The Yangtze River is the third largest river in the world, with a total length of more than 6,000 kilometers.It carves out the most wonderful landform in China - karst landform, a mythical world with towering limestone peaks and cliffs and deep caves everywhere.Along the Yangtze River, you can see alligators hatching out of their shells, giant salamanders making cries like babies, big-footed myotis bats skimming the water to catch small fish, and Guizhou black langurs and Huangshan macaques squatting and playing on the karst mountain walls., the migratory birds of Poyang Lake fly across the sky like thousands of sails competing with each other.

The blind fish with a translucent body has been swimming at the bottom of the dark cave lake for hundreds of millions of years, while the Longxian Village carp, whose scales shine golden red like the sun, has made its home in the rice fields.The Yangtze River nourishes a prosperous land of fish and rice, where people grow rice, the largest crop of grains in China.Buffalo, swallows, dragonflies, pheasants, cormorants, and waterThe villagers formed an indissoluble bond.

Clouds soar to the horizon

The land covered in this episode is the smallest in the series, only covering Yunnan Province. Yunnan accounts for about 2“ to 3” of the total land area, but it accounts for nearly a quarter of the country's total plant and animal species, which are everywhere here.visible.Asian wild elephants in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan golden monkeys in Baima Snow Mountain, red-bellied pheasants in Gaoligong Mountains, black-crested gibbons in Wuliang Mountains, large scarlet-breasted parrots in Simao...

There are also the cute red panda, the strange-looking binturong, the bamboo rat that eats bamboo roots, and the small bat that lives in the bamboo tube - the flat-headed bat.Yunnan seems to include all the kaleidoscopes in the world, with snow-capped mountains, seas of bamboo, dense forests and deep pools, carrying all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, making the animals walking there covered in colorful colors like this land.

magical plateau

This episode uses the mysterious and far-flung Qinghai-Tibet Plateau as the background to showcase the exotic animals and rare birds that guard this spiritual pure land day and night - argali, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan wild ass, wild yak, blue sheep, black-necked crane, crested grebe, hot springssnake……

There are Cordyceps sinensis, which was regarded by ancient Chinese as being between animals and plants, and Tibetan horse chickens, which are fed by monks in temples.Heading towards Mount Everest, you can also encounter insects that live at the highest altitude in the world: jumping spiders.Going east, thousands of migratory birds rise and fall around Qinghai Lake, the largest salt lake in China.This is the largest plateau area on earth and is the source of the Yangtze River and Yellow River. It is also home to devout and pure Tibetans.

Beyond the Snowstorm

The geographical appearance covered in this episode is the most diverse and rich in the series.There are the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and the Gobi Desert of Gansu, as well as the dense forests of the Northeast and the western frontier.There is Yadan in Dunhuang, which is famous for its "Devil City", there is also Tianchi in Changbai Mountain, a mortal wonderland, and there is also a deserted desert.

Wild horses, wild boars, goose-throated antelopes, gerbils, whooper swans, demoiselle cranes, sand foxes and Siberian tigers live here. There are also the Kazakhs who tame golden eagles for hunting, the Hezhe people who use traditional methods to break ice and fish, and who raise silkworms and weave colorful silkworms.The Uighurs who wear silk, the Ewenki who raise reindeer as a means of transportation, and of course the Mongolians who live on horseback.A large part of the episode shows the close connection between animals and the lives of ethnic minorities.This relationship has been around for a long time, and there are even vivid depictions of camel caravans in Dunhuang murals.

Fertile Central Plains

The episode is centered on the Great Wall and the Central Plains of the Yellow River Basin, and the camera sweeps across this land that once gave birth to ancient Chinese civilization.The forests of the Qinling Mountains still nurture magical creatures like magic: giant pandas, golden monkeys, takin, and hundreds of beautiful crested ibises that are unique in the world and are known as “auspicious birds”.

Follow the camera to Beijing, the capital of China and the ancient capital of all dynasties, and see old people walking and boxing with birds in the early morning and young people dedicated to saving raptors.Shaolin Temple, which has symbolized the national spirit for thousands of years, is also looking for the secrets of natural martial arts in cranes, monkeys, snakes and other animals.

tidal coast

China is a large maritime country, with the third longest coastline in the world and nearly one-third of its land area in the sea.It is filled with countless amazing birds and sea creatures.From north to south, you will encounter red-crowned cranes dancing gracefully, whooper swans feeding on seagrass, soft and glowing jellyfish groups floating on the sea surface, elk living in wetlands and swamps, black-faced spoonbills flying to Mai Po, Hong Kong to overwinter, and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.Chinese sturgeon and East China Sea eel...

Watch how vipers on Snake Island prey on passing migratory birds, and you can also dive into the water to see how fishermen hold their breath to collect lobsters and oysters.From the cold to the tropics, from wetlands to cities, follow the footsteps of birds and learn how to get along with animals in a limited space.