"Inheritance and Innovation" TV Drama Directors’ Creation in New Era Forum
Time: 14:00-18:00, November 23
Venue: InterContinental Ballroom, Century City International Convention Center
"Inheritance and Innovation" TV Drama Directors’ Creation in New Era Forum is a grand gathering of 10 top Chinese directors, aiming to explore the paths of inheritance and innovation in TV drama production. Directors will delve into topics related to creating high-quality content, share their latest insights and experiences, and exchange viewpoints and experiences, thus infusing vitality and creativity into TV drama production in the new era.
Forum Guests
Special Guest
Gao Changli Director General of TV Drama Department of National Radio and Television Administration
Topic: Open up horizons for creation and forge a new splendor of Chinese civilization
Host
Yan Jiangang
Vice President and Secretary General of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Notable works include “Emperor Qin Shi Huang”, “The Warring States”, “Dust Settles Down”, “Chinese Land”, “The Orphan of Zhao”, “Mother”, “In the Silence”, “Medal of the Public—Yuan Longping’s Dream”, “The Road of Life” etc.
Major Awards: Yan has received a great many awards, which include “Flying Apsaras Awards”, “China TV Golden Eagle Award”, “Five One Project Award”, “Magnolia Awards”, “International Emmy Awards” and “Asian Cultural Contribution Awards” both at home and abroad. Besides, he has personally received “Flying Apsaras Awards” for Best Director, “China TV Golden Eagle Award” for Best Director, “China Double Top Ten Director” and other awards. He was also recognized as an outstanding contributor to Chinese TV drama industry for twenty years, and awarded as the inaugural national “TV Artists of both Moral and Artist Statue” etc.
Topics:
Session one:“The Roots and Veins” of "Inheritance and Innovation" in the Creation of New Era TV Dramas
Session two: Embracing the times, loving life, and empathizing with the audience with genuine feelings
Speakers
Chen Yanmin
Vice President of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Notable works include "Chronicle of Beijing", "The Woman Living in a Villa", "Chase Melbourne", "Human-Insect", "Black Blood", "The Vicissitude of Life", "Empress Wu Zetian of China", "Waiting for Happiness", "Forgiveness", " Marriage Operation", "Espionage 1939", "Touching Lives" and "Conscience", among others.
Awards: He has received "Flying Apsaras Awards" and "Five One Project Award".
Bateer
Executive Director of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
National First-class director. He was personally awarded as the inaugural national "TV Artists of both Moral and Artist Statue", the "National Outstanding Television Director Award", the Special Contribution Director of China TV “Flying Apsaras Awards," and was recognized as an outstanding contributor to Chinese TV drama industry for twenty years. His works have won multiple "Five One Project Award" from the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and "China TV Golden Eagle Award". Representative works include drama series such as "The Confucian Merchant", "Western Police", "Workshop Director", "Pediatrician", "I Am a Police Officer", "The Highest Interests", "River and Mountain", "Flagship", "Breaking Out", "National Children" and "Fragrant Hills leaves are turning red", among others.
Han Zhijun
Executive Director of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
National First-class director and screenwriter. His major works include the novel "Quartet of Fate", as well as drama series such as "The Woman, the Fence, and the Dog", "The Wheel, the Woman, and the Well", "Ancient Ship, Woman, and Net” and films like "Beautiful Small Wood Room", "A Beautiful Neighbor", "Urban Female Police Officer", "Romantic Girl", "A Dumb Girl in the Snow-capped Mountain", "Two Women in Red Scarves", "A City and Two Girls", "Drunkard and His Stubborn Wife", "Spicy Girl", "A Happy Farmer", " Nanguan River", "Big Foot Queen", "Happy Match of the Fall", "Mother-in-law, Mother", "Female Tang Dynasty Inspector", " Those Things About Geng Erlv" and more. These works have received awards domestically, including the "Flying Apsaras Awards", "Golden Rooster Award", "China TV Golden Eagle Award", "Huabiao Film Awards" and "National Five One Project Award," as well as awards at film festivals in Japan, Russia, the UK, Poland, South Korea, Cyprus, and other countries.
Mao Weining
Executive Director of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
National First-class director, he served as the chairman of the jury for the 23rd Shanghai Television Festival International Competition. He has directed hundreds of film and television works and has received numerous awards, including "Flying Apsaras Awards", "China TV Golden Eagle Award", "National Five One Project Award", the “Grand Prix of Magnolia Awards of Shanghai TV Festival”, “Gold Panda Awards of Sichuan TV Festival”, and the 6th National Honorary title of "Film and TV Artists of both Moral and Artist Statue". His representative works include "Silent Oath", "Plum Blossom Files", "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", "Nameless Hero", "Proof of Identity", "Eternal Oath", "Shanghai, Shanghai", "Battle Flag", "Angry Heroes of Battle Flag", " The Ten Farewells to the Red Army", "Ordinary World", "Rose Faith”, "Frontier of Love", "Old Traditional Chinese Doctor", "Love Journey", "Rays of the Setting Sun", "The Meritorious Li Yannian", "Refiners of Faith", "Song of Lu Mountain" and "Our Ten Years" among others.
Yang Wenjun
Executive Director of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Chinese director, producer, and executive producer. He was juror for Seoul International Drama Awards and the Magnolia Awards of Shanghai TV Festival. He has received numerous awards including the "Flying Apsaras Awards", "China TV Golden Eagle Award", "National Five One Project Award", "Golden Star Award" for entire military television drama series, and Best Director of “Magnolia Awards”. His works have been nominated multiple times as the Best TV Drama by the National Radio and Television Administration, and have received nominations for the “Top Ten TV Dramas” of Magnolia Awards, “Best TV Drama” nomination of Singapore Asian Television Awards, “Best New Director Award” of China-Australia International Film Festival, “Golden Angel Award” of Chinese American Film Festival, and the "Annual Best Director Award" of Chinese American TV Festival. In 2018, he was included in the series of books "Sixty Years of Chinese TV Drama", in the volume "The History of Chinese TV Drama Development: People Volume". His notable directorial works include "New Gone with the Wind", " Hidden Fragrance", "The Way of the Tao", "Happy Memories of the Ma Family", "City of Memory", "Sunny Days", "Theatre", "Green Blindness", "Woman in the Family of Swordsman", "Divorce Lawyer", "Legend of Fuyao", "Royal Nirvana", "Together", "Medal of Republic", "Ebola Fighters", "The White Castle", and more.
Lin Nan
Deputy Secretary-General of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Chinese director. He has received awards such as the "Outstanding Director" at the 33rd Flying Apsaras Awards, "Outstanding TV Drama" at the 31st China TV China TV Golden Eagle Award, "Magnolia Awards" at the 28th Shanghai TV Festival, "Special Award" at the 16th Spiritual Civilization Construction "Five One Project", "Golden Bird Award" for Best Long TV Drama at the 14th Seoul International Drama Awards (SDA), "Silver Award" for Best Film in the International Network Film and TV Section at the 24th Busan International Film Festival, "Best Director of the Year" at the 15th Chinese American TV Festival, "Top Ten Director" at the 12th China's TV Production Industry Commendation, "Outstanding TV Drama Director" at the 3rd China TV Drama Director Committee Commendation Ceremony, "Best Director" at the 2nd Aolaiwu International TV Festival "Jin Xuan Award" and the "Most Industrially Influential TV Drama Director Award" in China. He has directed various films and TV dramas including "Anti-Traitor Campaign in Yan'an", "Food is Heaven", "The New Biography of the Thirteenth Lady", "Heroes of Southern Shaolin", "Mysterious Sand", "The Golden Eyes", "Lost in Kunlun", "Medal of the Republic: Proposal of Shen Jilan" and the film franchise "The Mystic Nine."
Zhao Ningyu
Deputy Secretary-General of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Chinese director, actor, screenwriter and professor. His works have won awards such as the "Golden Rooster Award" for Best Screenplay, the Changchun Film Festival's "Golden Deer Award" for Best Screenplay, the Macau International Film Festival's "Golden Lotus Award" for Best Screenplay, the China Film Association Cup for Outstanding Film Script, the "Five One Project Award", "China Huabiao Film Award", and the "Hundred Flowers Award" among others. His main directorial works include films such as "Dedication", "Ambans", "You, the Brave", "Pioneer" as well as TV series like "The Grand Tribunal", "Moon in Summer", "Flames" and "National Audit". As screenwriter, his works include films like "Zhao's Orphans", "Eighty Thousand Miles", "Warriors", "The Founding of an Army", "Towards the River Glorious", "1921", "The Sacrifice" and TV series like "Glory and Dream" and the animated film "The Most Adorable Person". He was involved in the screenplay planning for the film "Battle of Changjin Lake".
Li Zhi
Member Director of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Chinese director and screenwriter, has received several awards in his career. He won the top award at the inaugural Sino-Korean University Student Film Festival, the Best Drama and Best Director Awards at the 8th "Banxia Memorial" Awards, and was nominated for the "Five Young Directors of the Heart List" in the TV series category at the 3rd event. His main directorial works include productions like "Xiu Jin", "Love Speaks", "Woman in Beijing", "Twenty and Confused", "Love in Years", "Twenty and Confused 2" and "Conscience".
Liu Xuesong
Member Director of Television Director Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Chinese director. His works won the Outstanding TV Drama Award at the 32nd “Flying Apsaras Awards”, Best Chinese TV Drama Nomination at the 28th Shanghai TV Festival "Magnolia Awards," and were recognized as premium content in the 2022 Internet Audiovisual Excellence. Additionally, his productions were selected as outstanding works in the 2022 Annual Selection of Outstanding Internet Audiovisual Works by the National Radio and Television Administration. He received the Best Series, Best Director, and Best Realistic Drama Awards at the 3rd New Era International Television Festival's Brilliant Conch Awards. His dramas have been honored with awards such as the Quality Model Drama Award at the 2023 Drama Quality Summit of the Eastern Theater, and the Annual Outstanding TV Drama Award at the 1st China TV Drama Annual Festival organized by the China Media Group. Some of the TV series he directed include "Big Family", "The Untold Secret of Tibet", "Domino of Love", "Next Stop, Marriage", "Age of Change", "ER Doctors", "Hope All Is Well with Us", "Lucky With You", "Two Conjunctures About Marriage", "Blood Battle at Song Mountain", " The Story of Xing Fu" and "Crackdown Crime".
China AIGC Audiovisual Development Forum
Time: 14:00-18:00 November 23
Venue: Jin Jiang Room, Century City International Convention Center
With the theme "Creating a Smart Audiovisual New World, Understanding the New Changes in the Industry", we invited 12 guests, including leaders from provincial-level television stations, heads of audiovisual institutions, industry experts, and academia to deliver keynote speeches. The focus will be on the innovation and exploration of AIGC in the audiovisual field, using AIGC's applications in audiovisual content production as a starting point to discuss the profound changes AIGC is bringing to the media industry.
Forum guests
Hosts
Fu Yuhui
Doctor of Communication, postdoctoral fellow, senior editor, Vice Chairman of Intelligent All Media Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Former director of the New Media Operations Center and director of Press and Publicity Department of China United Network Communication Group Co., Ltd, postgraduate supervisor of Beijing Technology and Business University, and special review expert of “International Communications” published by China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration. Fu has long been engaged in studies of mobile communication industry, media convergence, new media communication, Internet governance, mobile Internet development, international communication and industrial policy. Notable translations include “The Magazines Handbook” (Tsinghua University Press, Oct. 2008), “Mobile Communication and Society” (Tsinghua University Press, Aug. 2014), “Understanding Media in the Digital Age” (China Renmin University Press, Apr. 2019), etc.
Li Shu
Vice Chairman of Intelligent All Media Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations, Dean of Institute of Communication Studies of Communication University of China, Professor, Doctoral Advisor
Dean of Institute of Communication Studies of Communication University of China, Professor, Doctoral Advisor，Vice Chairman of Intelligent All Media Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations, Special Expert of Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and “News Commentator” specially appointed by CCTV.
Speakers
Guo Shifei
Member of the Party Leading Group and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Henan Radio and Television
Guo Shifei, is a senior journalist. He is entitled Excellent Journalist in Henan Province, Leader of Academics & Technology in Henan Province as well as Judge of China Journalism Award and Changjiang Taofen Awards.
Topic: Illuminating the essence of technology and the brilliance of outstanding traditional culture — AIGC's technological integration into the creation practice and reflection of the Chinese Festival series programs by the Henan Televison
Guo Xiaorong
Member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of Hubei Radio and Television, Senior Editor
Guo Xiaorong is representative of the 19th National Congress of CPC, the fifth national “TV Artist of both Moral and Artist Statue”, member of the tenth Council of All-China Journalists Association, recipient of Hubei provincial government special allowance, winner of 2013 Hubei Youth May Fourth Medal, Female Role Model of Hubei in Seven Decades, advanced individual in Wuhan’s fight against COVID-19, etc. Her works together with those under her direction received numerous awards which include China Journalism Award, China Radio and Television Award, National Radio and Television Administration’s Innovation Award and so on. She also led the team to advocate and establish the first national blockchain editorial office.
Topic: Data-intelligent Yangtze River Cloud, integrating into a new ecological system
Shao Qing
Director, Intelligent Media Product Line of iFlytek
As a Senior Artificial Intelligence Technologist, Senior Media Industry Lecturer，Comprehensive Solution Architect for the Media Industry Product, Leader of the CCTV-iFlytek Intelligent Voice Joint Project Team, Chief Executive Officer of the Artificial Intelligence Voice and Language Service Platform, he has served more than 10,000 professional users of cross-language communication and more than 100 million ordinary users.
Topic: Exploring the application of media convergence and industry big model
Wu Qian
Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of SMG News
Wu Qian boasts more than 20 years of experience in TV news and as senior editor, with her works winning China Journalism Award, China Radio, Film and Television Grand Award among others and she was awarded the Shanghai Changjiang Taofen Award.
Topic: "Breaking the limits" first and then "Breaking through," exploring new paths for the development of digital media professionals empowered by AIGC from the Radio and Television
Han Ying
Director of Lightning Intelligent Media Studio, Shandong Radio and Television
As Director of Lightning Intelligent Media Studio, Shandong Radio and Television, Han Ying is winner of multiple industry awards
Topic: Toward the path of Innovation and Intelligence—Lightning media constantly builds new quality productivity
Zhou Liang
Vice General Manager of Beijing Yunshi Data Technology
Senior media technology expert, with nearly 20 years of experience in the media industry, he participated in the formulation of a number of national media industry technical specifications. He led and participated in the "CCTV H5 Creative Workshop", "Xinhua News Agency Live Streaming Platform", "Yunnan TV Seven Color Cloud Convergence Media Cloud Platform", "Jiangsu TV Litchi Cloud PaaS Platform", and design and product development work of other national and provincial media platform programs. He has conducted in-depth research and practice on media big data, big model middleware, AIGC intelligent production and media operation and other cutting-edge technology fields.
Topic: Media Operation V2.0 - Cognitive Domain Content Operation Solution Based on Media Big Model Middleware
Ma Tao
Marketing Director, Chengdu Dongfang Shengxing Electronics Co., Ltd.
With 15 years of experience in radio and television industry, senior title of information system integration, he is mainly responsible for the planning and design of broadcast media organizations' production and broadcasting, convergence media and other technology platforms. He has participated in the series standard establishment of NRTA and municipal convergence media and participated in patent R&D in the field of audio and video of the company for five times.
Topic: AIGC empowers innovative business operations for live-streaming events
Shi Xinhua
Senior Solution Architect, Alibaba Cloud
Shi Xinhua joined Ali in 2010, and has worked in various positions in product, operation and architect from Alipay to Taobao to AliCloud. He has participated in the incubation of Alipay fast payment, code payment, Taobao intelligent customer service and other innovative business scenarios. Currently, he is responsible for the solution implementation and cooperation of big model in media and finance field.
Topic: Application and Exploration of Big Model in Media Industry
Ye Jianhua
Vice President of Arcvideo Technology, General Manager of Media Business Department
Mr. Ye Jianhua is Vice President of Arcvideo Technology, General Manager of Media Business Department and Talent of Hangzhou. With technical R&D background, he has been engaged in audio industry for 25 years. As an expert in ultra-high definition audio-visual industry, he has a unique understanding of ultra-high-definition audio-visual and intelligent media technology and has written a number of invention patents, participated in the development of a number of standards. He has led the writing of a number of white papers and theses, the construction of several intelligent ultra-high-definition audio-visual platform at provincial level and above. He has always insisted on the concept of technology first, application innovation, ecological co-construction, and win-win cooperation, and collaborated with industry partners to promote the rapid development of intelligent audio-visual technology and applications to create a better future for the media industry.
Topic: AIGC empowers all-media convergence and innovation
WU Peng
Head of Disguise China
As one of the main drafters of the World UHD Industry Alliance's “Technical Requirements and Test Methods for XR Virtualization and Reality Convergence Production Systems”, he participated in the design and construction of many XR/VP shooting studios in China. He graduated from Communication University of China, worked for Dayang Technology Development, Miranda China Office, Harmonic China Office, Shotoku China Office.
Topic: Extraordinary Performance of Artificial Intelligence in XR Visual Art
Chen Zhi
General Manager of Professional Media Division, Sobey Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
Having cultivated in the broadcasting industry for more than 20 years, with rich experience and comprehensive technology, he is mainly responsible for the company's professional media field work. He has completed a number of design and project delivery of large-scale project program at national, provincial, local and municipal level media organizations. He has participated in the establishment of national industry standards, implementation of industry research projects and promotion of industry conference.
Topic: To promote audiovisual construction with technological innovation
Chen Guanghui
CTO of Media Business Department, Director of Huawei Cloud Solutions, Huawei Internet Media Business
In 2007, he was recruited into Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and worked in Broadcasting and Media Industry Solutions Department of Huawei Enterprise Business, responsible for planning and design of broadcasting and television industry projects; in 2015~2018, he was responsible for the market expansion of the media industry in Western Europe; Since 2018, he has been working in the Government and Enterprise Media Capital System of China Region, and has successively assumed the positions of Senior Engineer of Broadcasting and Media Industry Solutions, Senior Architect of Industry Solutions, CTO of Media Business Department, and Minister of Huawei Cloud Solutions of Media Business Department, etc. He has a wealth of experience and a deep understanding of the technical architecture of the media industry, the content and ecosystem as well as the development of the industry.
Topic: Technology Innovation Accelerates Digital Intelligence Transformation of the Media Industry-AIGC Reconstructs Media Infrastructure
Audiobooks Development Forum
Time: 09:00-12:00 November 24
Venue: InterContinental Ballroom, Century City International Convention Center
With the theme of "Promoting Audio Reading and Contributing to a Strong Cultural Country", the forum will invite nine experts and scholars in the field to discuss the future trends of audio books in quality content creation and production to promote the development of the audio reading industry.
Forum guests
Host
Wang Jiafeng Host of Sichuan Radio and Television
Special Guests
Huang Wei
Vice President and Secretary General, China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Topic: Audiobook, the inheretance and creation of cultures
Ao Ran
Executive Vice Director and Secretary General, China Audio-visual and Digital Publishing Association
Speakers
Wang Qiu
President of Audiobooks Committee of China Federation of Radio and Television Associations
Topic: Opportunities and Challenges of Audiobook
Zeng Xiangmin
Secretary of Party Committee of the Television School，Professor and PhD Superviser of Communication University of China
Topic: Fusion and Distinction, the creation of scenario application of voices
Yang Yanan
CEO of Beijing Techrightcloud Cultural Technology Co., Ltd.
Topic: Technology Empowers the Protection and Development in the Field of Audiobook Copyright
Zhang Jingjing
Product Owner of ZenVideo of Tencent
Topic: AI Digitalization Facilitates the Development of Audible Content and the Cultural Transmission
Li Zhengguo
Chief Strategy Officer of Yun Ting of China Media Group
Topic: Analyze How Technology Drives the Development of Audible Reading in View of AI
Qin Yanhua
Professor and Doctoral Tutor of School of Journalism and Communication, Director of Media Convergence and Digital Publishing Center of Beijing Normal University; Director of User Behavior Big Data Analyse and Application Lab
Topic: The Release and Trend of “Audiobook Annual Impact”
Hong Yun
Broadcasting Guidance Expert of China Media Group; Artist granted a special allowance from the State Council；Expert in recitation for the Study Strengthen National Power; Reputable Broadcasting Artist
