The China Media Group (CMG) has announced a diverse lineup of programs to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday symbolizing family reunion, which falls on Tuesday this year.
The 24-hour news channel CCTV-13 has staged on a special programming in each afternoon during the three-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday from Sunday to Tuesday.
The program aims to showcase the atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival across the country, presenting a cheerful, peaceful scene in which families reunite, admire the moon, eat mooncakes and light up lanterns.
The main venue of the CMG's Mid-Autumn Festival Gala is Shenyang, capital city of northeast China's Liaoning Province. The special gala will be broadcast on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, at 20:00 Beijing Time (12:00 GMT) on Tuesday, via multiple CMG channels, as well as its social media platforms. CCTV-1, the CMG's primary channel, has presented various of colorful TV shows, including the third season of cultural travel program "Home in Mountains and Rivers" which focuses on rural life and economy in coastal province of Fujian, along with the lifestyle in rural areas of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The second season of cultural program "China in Intangible Cultural Heritage" takes the audience into traditional handicrafts, dances and customs in east China's Jiangxi Province.
The 2024 Mid-Autumn Poetry Festival, a program which will be held in ancient capital Xi'an for the first time, will also wow the viewers every night of the holiday.
CCTV-3, the art-focused channel of the CMG, will treat viewers with a comedy improv titled "Happy Mid-Autumn Night" on Monday evening. The comedy has been integrated with classical Chinese opera and myth stories.
On the Chinese-language international channel CCTV-4, a special traditional Chinese festival program will take the audience to the colorful ways of celebrations around the world.
The CMG's documentary channel CCTV-9 continued to broadcast "Dunhuang Meets Shaoxing," a four-episode documentary highlighting four major sections of Dunhuang and Shaoxing's grotto culture, calligraphy culture, poetry culture and cultural heritage.
The Chinese opera channel CCTV-11 will broadcast a Mid-Autumn traditional Chinese style concert on the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival,
The Voice of China, the radio channel under the CMG, will launch a convergence media live-streaming program on Tuesday night, amid the poetic and pictorial splendor of the Twenty-Four Bridges in Yangzhou City of Jiangsu Province.
The mobile new media platform of CCTV News and Yangshipin, a short video application under the CMG, have both published their Mid-Autumn special programmings.
China Media Group unveils extensive Mid-Autumn Festival programming
The 2025 Zhongguancun Forum (ZGC Forum) is underway in Beijing, bringing together global experts and industry leaders to discuss cutting-edge advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and humanoid robot innovation.
The ZGC Forum features a series of events including the "AI Theme Days" which run from March 27 to 31. This segment comprises two core forums, five specialized forums, and many featured activities.
Seven significant AI achievements were unveiled at the Future Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Forum on Saturday, including the Beijing AI Public Computing Platform Eco-Network. This network will amalgamate computing resources nationwide and optimize resource allocation, thus garnering considerable attention and discussion from attendees.
Li Dahai, a corporate executive attending the event, expressed enthusiasm about the platform's potential to provide high-quality computing services at a lower cost, and to facilitate innovation.
"Through such a plan, we can obtain very good computing power services, which have not only high quality but also lower cost. This is extremely helpful for us to better engage in innovative work. In fact, the government has also built a good data trading platform on the basis of the computing power platform. Through such a data trading platform, we can also more conveniently access more data providers, allowing large models to have more data nourishment," he said.
This year's ZGC forum also spotlights various humanoid robots, showcasing the boundless applications of new technologies.
The humanoid robot of "Tiangong" can adeptly navigates challenging terrains involving slopes, rocks, and sandbags, showcasing its skills in traversing complex landscapes.
"Our goal is to imbue robots with true intelligence, enabling them to comprehend commands, interpret their surroundings, autonomously plan task sequences, and ultimately assist in achieving objectives. In scenarios like electricity inspection which involved high voltage power cabinets, the ‘Tiangong’ robot can execute relatively hazardous maneuvers with precision," said Li Yipeng, a staff member at the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center.
Meanwhile, another humanoid robot also demonstrated football playing and completed with celebratory gestures after scoring a goal.
A robot developed by the Linkerbot Beijing Technology, capable of playing the piano with dexterity, stands out for its nimble hands. It can effortlessly handle tasks like screwing bolts and conducting research experiments.
"The robot can perform very delicate operations, such as tightening screws, in advanced manufacturing applications," said Zou Hanzhang, a staff member of the marketing department of the company.
According to the organizer, this year's ZGC Forum displays nearly 100 representative robots from 15 companies, and the humanoid robots are breaking new ground with AI in entertainment, commercial services, and are progressively finding applications in logistics sorting, healthcare and elderly care sectors.
2025 Zhongguancun Forum highlights AI, humanoid robots
