CMG launches programs on Paris Olympic Games, China-France cultural exchanges

China Media Group (CMG) on Thursday launched eight boutique audiovisual products on the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and cultural exchanges between China and France, during an event held in Beijing.

The eight products cover a wide range of subjects including performances of Chinese athletes at the Paris Games, stories of artists joining the art exhibition held in Paris in May, works of art and the food culture of both China and France.

Products, "Give You a Like", "Road to Paris", and "Blooming in Paris", tells the stories of athletes from China as well as the wider world who took part in the Paris Summer Olympics.

"Meeting Paris" explores cultural traces related to the Olympics at various locations across France.

The 100-episode series "From Beijing to Paris: China Art Exhibition" deeply excavates creative stories of more than 100 artists who participated in the major exhibition "From Beijing to Paris: Olympic Tour of Chinese and French Artists". The exhibition was organized by CMG and opened in May at Les Invalides in France.

The twenty-episode series "Bond of Art", and the art experience show "Touring France with Famous Paintings", respectively tell the stories of Chinese artists and the birthplaces of iconic artworks in France.

"Peak of Gastronomy - Competition of Chinese and French Master Chefs" gathers 20 emerging chefs from China and France for the fusion of Chinese and French cuisine.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, President of the Constitutional Council of France Laurent Fabius and former French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin sent congratulatory letters to the event.

Meanwhile, representatives of artists attending the exhibition of "From Beijing to Paris: Olympic Tour of Chinese and French Artists" were awarded with honorary certificates.

"The culture exchange between China and France is very important. China Media Group contributes a lot to the cultural exchange between the two countries," said Chang Shana, a professor from the Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, and also one of the special consultants for the exhibition.

CMG launches programs on Paris Olympic Games, China-France cultural exchanges

CMG launches programs on Paris Olympic Games, China-France cultural exchanges

The world's first 150,000-deadweight tonnage (DWT) smart aquaculture vessel Guoxin 2-1, a floating fish farm, is under construction in Qingdao City of east China's Shandong Province, and set to be operational in 2025.

The mega vessel measures 245 meters in length and 45 meters in width. It has 15 breeding cabins, each larger than two standard swimming pools. As a sister ship of "Guoxin 1", "Guoxin 2-1" has carried out more than 160 optimizations and innovations in terms of functional layout and new energy utilization.

Guoxin 1 has sailed for nearly 14,000 nautical miles to the Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea where different fish can be cultivated in their ideal temperatures and produced 2,700 tons of yellow croakers since its launch in May 2022.

"While retaining the hoisting method, we have employed an approach of side entry to send fish fry into the cabin. Holes are added on ship's side so that the fish fry can be directly transported to the breeding cabins, which greatly improves the efficiency and also reduces the damage rate," said Tian Neidong, a project director of Guoxin China Shipbuilding Qingdao Marine Technology.

In order to realize intelligent fish farming, the tanks are centrally controlled. Operations on board the ship are monitored with underwater cameras, sensors and a self-feeding system, as well as connectivity with the company's shore-based offices to monitor the fish.

The fish rearing density in the tanks is four to six times higher than in traditional aquaculture cages and the aquaculture cycle is shortened by 30 percent. In addition, the fish survival rate and the rate of weight gain are also increased.

"We have installed more than 2,000 sensors in various areas of the ship, which can transmit different data such as water temperature, water quality, and oxygen content in the breeding cabins to the monitoring room in real time, and then transmit it to the shore-based monitoring center through the ship-shore integrated system, realizing the interconnection between the aquaculture vessels and the land, and among the aquaculture ships," said Tian.

World's first 150,000-DWT offshore fish farming vessel to go operational in 2025