China Media Group (CMG)'s 2024 Mid-Autumn Festival Gala will dramatize thematic reunion amid amity and romance with most aesthetic moon atlas by featuring numerous round shape decorations to embody people's beautiful wish of reunion and fulfillment.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the night when the moon reaches its fullest and brightest on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.
The stage for the upcoming festival gala has been set on the lakeside of Dingxiang Lake in northeast China's Shenyang City. The tenet of the event is to present an impressive "beautiful, sincere, lyrical, and romantic" artistic vision.
The festival gala will feature ubiquitous circular elements. The main stage is circularly design based on real landscapes, in conjunction with a circular track around the perimeter, and the recording equipment can capture every detail on the stage in a 360-degree panoramic format.
"The main venue is round-shaped, so are the moon and many of the props. The round shape embodies Chinese people's expectation and beautiful wish of reunion and fulfillment," said Yang Qifang, the general planner of the Mid-Autumn Festival Gala.
In addition to the circular design of the stage, the choreography and performances throughout the program also feature round shapes, immersing the audience in an ambiance of festive amity and romance.
"We have launched a campaign inviting people worldwide to submit photos of the most beautiful full moon they have captured. No matter where you are, take up your camera or phone and take a photo of the most aesthetic moon in your heart. The countless small full moons will be complied together to form a big full moon on the stage. We will present it on the big screen of our show as a background," said Yang.
This year the Mid-Autumn Festival falls on September 17.
CMG Mid-Autumn Festival Gala to dramatize thematic reunion amid amity, romance
CMG Mid-Autumn Festival Gala to dramatize thematic reunion amid amity, romance
The 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum opened in Beijing on Friday morning with hotspots around the world and security cooperation taking the center stage.
The opening ceremony was attended by more than 600 official representatives from over 100 countries and international organizations, including nearly 300 heads of official delegations and officials from various countries. The forum is held with the theme of "Promoting Peace for a shared future".
China's Defense Minister Dong Jun attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech. He first read out a congratulatory letter from President Xi Jinping to the forum. Then, he mentioned in his speech the current hot issues including the Ukrainian crisis and the ongoing Palestine-Israel conflict.
Dong said "there is no winner in a war and a conflict, and there is no way out if we just confront each other." He also stressed that promoting peace talks is the only way out, and the fundamental way out.
Two plenary sessions were held after the opening ceremony. At the first session, participants exchanged views on "security cooperation and prosperity and stability in the Asia-Pacific region", and official representatives from Vietnam, Singapore, Pakistan, Fiji, Russia and Malaysia spoke at the meeting.
The theme of the second plenary session was "multipolarization and the direction of international order", and defense ministers or military generals from six countries including Cambodia, Tanzania, Cameroon and Iran delivered speeches.
The topics all focus on security hotspots. Participants include not only developing and developed countries, but also representatives, experts and scholars from the closely-watched countries such as the United States, Russia, and Ukraine.
In interviews, many participants said that the Beijing Xiangshan Forum is committed to promoting dialog, exchanges and cooperation among defense agencies, militaries and international organizations of various countries, and is playing an active role in promoting regional security and stability and maintaining world peace and development.
The ongoing Beijing Xiangshan Forum, which runs until Saturday, will also hold eight parallel group sessions, focusing on themes such as the correct way for China and the United States to get along, European security trends and Middle East peace vision. This year, a new session on outer space security has been set up for participants to jointly discuss issues on outer space security governance.
Initiated in 2006, the Beijing Xiangshan Forum is a high-level security and defense forum in the Asia-Pacific with significant international influence.
11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum opens with focus on hotspots, security cooperation
