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Aerial China

Season 2 2019

  • 2019-03-02T16:00:00Z on CCTV-1
  • 50m
  • 5h 50m (7 episodes)
  • China
  • Chinese
  • Documentary
The large-scale aerial documentary "Aerial China", produced by CCTV and contracted by CCTV Records International Media Co., Ltd., is a documentary film that overlooks China from an aerial perspective and comprehensively and stereoscopically displays History of China's historical and cultural landscape, natural and geographical features, and economic and social development and changes. The series consists of 34 episodes, each lasting 50 minutes, covering 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 special administrative regions across the country. This film will be entirely completed through aerial photography, with each episode selecting the most representative and ornamental historical, cultural, natural, and modern landscapes from various provinces and cities. Using aerial flight routes as clues, it will showcase a beautiful China, ecological China, and civilized China that the audience is familiar with and full of freshness through storytelling.

7 episodes

Season Premiere

2019-03-02T16:00:00Z

2x01 Zhejiang

Season Premiere

2x01 Zhejiang

  • 2019-03-02T16:00:00Z50m

Zhejiang, located on the southeastern coast of China, a big winding river divides this land into east and west, rolling mountains stretch from southwest to northeast, the eastern part of the map, is a starry sea of islands and winding coast. Our journey begins with a bridge across the bay, a visit to a distant memory in the archipelago, crossing the island chain, we explore the ancient port area, heading south, and a grand festival reunion.

2019-03-03T16:00:00Z

2x02 Sichuan

2x02 Sichuan

  • 2019-03-03T16:00:00Z50m

Sichuan is located in the southwestern part of China's interior, with majestic mountains and plateaus to the west and a basin sunken into the mountains to the center and east, including the fertile Chengdu Plain, known as the "Land of Heaven". Our journey begins at the northwestern end of the plateau, then deep into the mountains and valleys, discovering a world class wonderland, climbing over snow-capped mountains and following the rivers to see a miraculous ancient project.

2019-03-04T16:00:00Z

2x03 Inner Mongolia

2x03 Inner Mongolia

  • 2019-03-04T16:00:00Z50m

Inner Mongolia, which stretches from 126 degrees East to 97 degrees East, is the largest province in China spanning longitude. The Daxinganling and Yinshan mountain ranges stretch across the east and west, and the Yellow River crosses one corner in the shape of a few zigzags. Forests, grasslands, deserts and the Gobi, there is a rich diversity of natural landforms.

2019-03-05T16:00:00Z

2x04 Gansu

2x04 Gansu

  • 2019-03-05T16:00:00Z50m

Gansu, located in the northwest of China, the Yellow River crosses Lanzhou, dividing the land into the east and the west of the river, a narrow corridor of about 1,000 kilometers squeezed by the mountains to the south and north, and a slice of oasis, linking the Central Plains and the outside of the country. Our flight starts from central Gansu, encountering a different kind of Loess Plateau. Through the tunnel of time and space, overlooking the past and present of farming civilization, downstream to see how a large river changes color, and finally meet an ancient city by chance.

2019-03-06T16:00:00Z

2x05 Guangdong

2x05 Guangdong

  • 2019-03-06T16:00:00Z50m

Guangdong Province is located at the southernmost tip of mainland China, and the southern ridge of the barrier has created this warm land. To the southeast is the vast sea, and the rich water system between the mountains and the sea merges into a great river, which merges with the sea and strikes a fertile delta.

2019-03-07T16:00:00Z

2x06 Fujian

2x06 Fujian

  • 2019-03-07T16:00:00Z50m

Fujian, located on the southeastern coast of China, has "eight mountains, one water and one field", with the long stretches of Wuyi Mountain in the northwest. Nearly 700 rivers, large and small, run through the mountains and across the Taiwan Strait from Taiwan. The journey into Fujian begins at Wuyi Mountain on the border of Fujian and Gan. Explore the legend of a leaf, visit an ancient village to hear the prosperity of the past, experience the magical Danxia on the water, and fly south to encounter a piece of the most beautiful lotus sea terraces.

Season Finale

2019-03-08T16:00:00Z

2x07 Jiangsu

Season Finale

2x07 Jiangsu

  • 2019-03-08T16:00:00Z50m

Jiangsu is bordered by the Yellow Sea to the east, the Huai River to the north, the Yangtze River to the south, and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the middle. It has many rivers and lakes, is the province with the lowest average elevation in China, and ranks first in the country in terms of the proportion of both plains and water surface. The journey into Jiangsu begins on an island in the Yellow Sea, encountering the beautiful danling cranes in the largest wetland by the Yellow Sea, and then flying south along the coastline to reach the mouth of the Yangtze River, tracing the past life of a port.

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