China Media Group (CMG)'s much-anticipated Mid-Autumn Festival Gala started at 20:00 Beijing Time on Tuesday, conveying the delightful and romantic sentiment of China's traditional festival to the global audience through a poetic, lyrical, and artistic presentation.
The annual gala broadcast, also known as "Qiuwan" in Chinese, was recorded in Shenyang City in northeast China's Liaoning Province, a 2,300-year-old city boasting three world cultural heritages sites and over 1,500 historical and cultural sites. The city is also one of the most well-known industrial cities in China.
With theme of "moon culture", the gala vividly presented Chinese traditional culture with over 30 artistic performances, including poem recitals, songs and dances, as well as full-featured operas.
Divided into three chapters themed "Moon Rise" "Moon Light" and "Bright Moon", respectively, the grand gala began with a song adapted from a poem by Li Qingzhao, a female poet living in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), depicting and extolling sweet osmanthus flower, which blooms around the Mid-Autumn Festival and has been cultivated in China for over 2500 years.
The gala is now available on various China Central Television (CCTV) channels and other new media platforms.
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese lunar calendar. It is a traditional festival symbolizing family reunion and amity. This year, the festival fell on Tuesday (Sept 17).
CMG Mid-Autumn Festival Gala highly poetic, lyrical with full-featured cultural displays
CMG Mid-Autumn Festival Gala highly poetic, lyrical with full-featured cultural displays
East China's Zhejiang Province has adopted a series of precaution measures against the nearing Typhoon Pulasan, the 14th typhoon of the year, which is expected to make landfall along Zhejiang's coastal areas between Thursday afternoon and evening.
Earlier on Wednesday, the province activated the Level-IV emergency response and raised it to Level III at 09:30 on Thursday.
Taizhou City of Zhejiang, where landfall is expected, has implemented comprehensive measures to brace for the approaching typhoon.
Jiantiao town in Sanmen County of Taizhou is home to more than 30 marine-related enterprises, and local staff have conducted inspections and reinforcements on relevant vessels, gantry cranes, and mobile cranes in advance.
Currently, more than 3,000 workers in the town have temporarily stopped work and evacuated.
The originally scheduled date for the opening of the East China Sea fishing season on September 16 was postponed due to the impact of Typhoon Bebinca and Typhoon Pulasan. Currently, over 3,000 fishing boats in Taizhou have all returned to ports to seek shelter.
In Sanjiangkou of Ningbo City, along the river embankment in Jiangbei District, approximately 55 kilometers of flood barriers have been constructed. In Yinzhou District, about 28 kilometers of flood barriers have also been built to ensure the safety of the shops and residents along the river.
At the same time, Ningbo City has activated a Level-IV response to Typhoon Pulasan. If the emergency response level is raised to Level-I, flood barriers will be further reinforced by approximately half a meter to reach a total height of 4.63 meters.
At present, 170 vessels are temporarily docked at various piers with the assistance of the maritime department. Meanwhile, the maritime authorities are strengthening inspections to ensure all boats are safely sheltered from the typhoon. All four ongoing water-related projects in the area have also been halted.
China has a four-tier emergency response system, with Level I being the most severe.
Zhejiang adopts precaution measures against Typhoon Pulasan
