What was the first documentary that bbc cooperated with CCTV?

The first documentary co-produced by bbc and CCTV was Beautiful China, which filmed more than 56 national wildlife and scenic spots in China, 86 rare wildlife species in China and more than 30 national life stories, showing the natural and human landscape of China. It took four years to shoot, and used advanced photography techniques such as aerial photography, infrared, high speed, time delay and underwater to record a lot of precious and wonderful pictures.

Beautiful China is divided into six episodes: Splendid South China, Yun Xiang Skyline, Magic Plateau, Snow Area beyond the Great Wall, Rich Central Plains and Tidal Shore. The film also uses some special techniques to shoot some shots: when a canary escaped from the prey of the Central Asian clam on the Snake Island, it used a high-speed camera to shoot a shot with a picture speed reduced by 80 times, infrared rays.

Beautiful China won the 30th Emmy Awards for Documentary Photography of Natural History, Editing and Sound Effect. This series of shooting lasted more than 16 months and traveled more than 500,000 kilometers, and 57 independent shots were taken in the hinterland of China. The production team shot more than 500 hours of high-definition scripts in 26 provinces of China.

Beautiful China is a model of documentary creation in skill, content and spirit. It vividly and profoundly shows how the nature documentary should be upgraded from documentary character to thinking character, which arouses people's concern and profound reflection on man and nature.