The China Media Group (CMG) joined hands with the Zhejiang provincial government in unveiling the national base for short-video production in Hangzhou, capital city of the eastern province, on Friday.
Based on the project, this pair of partners aim to create new heights of playing the guiding role of culture, boosting scientific and technological innovation and building an industrial cluster, featuring the advantages of cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
At Friday's event, the AI production experimental workshop of the base and the CMG's Short-video Base Company (Hangzhou) were both inaugurated. The media group and Hangzhou city signed a cooperation framework agreement on joint efforts to promote the development of the base.
In addition, a series of projects on high-quality short-video content creation and collection were also launched at the event.
According to an annual report on China's internet audiovisual service development, by December 2023, China had some 1.55 billion short-video accounts online, with more than 15 million professional live streamers, and averagely, nearly 80 million of works were posted on the country's major short-video platforms every day, with each user spending 151 minutes on them daily.
CMG unveils national short-video base in Hangzhou
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited the Orsay Museum with Brigitte Macron, wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, in Paris on Monday.
Brigitte warmly welcomed Peng at the gate of the museum. The wives of the two heads of state entered the museum to appreciate the "Paris 1874 Inventing Impressionism" exhibition and the museum's masterpiece oil paintings.
The two stopped from time to time to appreciate Impressionist classic works by Claude Monet, Van Gogh, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other famous painters, and exchanged feelings.
Noting that both the Chinese and French people love painting very much, Peng expressed her hope that the two sides could carry out more exchanges so that the two peoples could feel the charm of each other's cultures and deepen mutual understanding.
Peng expressed the hope that artists of the two countries will strengthen exchanges and mutual learning, and inspire each other to create more exquisite works of art.
In the hall of the museum, the wives of the two heads of state had cordial exchanges with French students who were visiting and studying there.
The students shared their experiences of learning Chinese and expressed their love for Chinese culture. Peng encouraged them to work hard to learn Chinese well, and take opportunities to study in China, walk around and take a look, so that they can get a true and multi-dimensional view of China.
Peng said she hopes that the students will become little envoys of China-France friendship and build a bridge of communication between the people of the two countries so that China-France friendship will be passed on from generation to generation.
Founded in 1986, the Orsay Museum is a national museum of France, possessing the richest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artworks in the world.
Peng is accompanying President Xi on a state visit to France.
Peng Liyuan, French first lady visit Orsay Museum
