A film production base in east China's Zhejiang Province has won praise from media people from different countries due to its use of cutting-edge technologies and equipment in scene-making.
The Versatile BoCai AI Virtual Production Base, in Zhejiang's Deqing County, is redefining filmmaking. Featuring the world's largest single LED virtual studio, scenes can instantly shift from outer space to ancient China just in the studio.
Media professionals from Malaysia, Thailand and Pakistan were deeply impressed by the high-tech equipment and the new way of filmmaking as they personally visited the base.
"This place is huge, (with) a lot of studios, all tech, high technology. I'm very impressed," said Khonphong Thanatphongjira, an assistant editor from Khaosod, a Thai daily newspaper.
"Before that, you may have to visit mountains, (using) so many crew and the equipment. Now you can do all these things in a virtual studio. Through virtual technology, we can create the mountains, we can create the jungles, we can create the Mars, we can create the space, anything," said Muhammad Riaz Burki, a news director of Pakistan Television.
"Just now I see how they control everything using the monitor.That's really impressive because before this, to produce some film takes a lot of money and takes a lot of time. But nowadays there's just a few months, it's done and it's going to be air on Netflix, maybe. That's really impressive, actually," said Amirul Sajadi, a digital media journalist from the Malaysian National News Agency.
The media people were confident that the new technologies will drive a leap in China's film-making industry.
"There's no doubt Chinese film production can compete to (with) American movies or any other countries' (movies) with this technology," said Khonphong Thanatphongjira.
Film base in Zhejiang impresses media people with cutting-edge technologies
China will take further steps to expand high-standard opening-up and create a new landscape of win-win cooperation in 2026, which marks the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), Commerce Minister Wang Wentao said in a recent interview with China Media Group.
Wang said opening up and cooperation for mutual benefit are integral to Chinese modernization. This year, China will actively expand voluntary opening up.
The country will steadily open up such areas as value-added telecommunications, biotechnology and wholly foreign-owned hospitals, while accelerating comprehensive pilot and demonstration programs for expanded opening-up in the services sector, he noted.
"We will expand the scope and regions of unilateral opening-up and ensure the implementation of zero-tariff treatment on 100 percent of tariff lines for all African countries that have diplomatic relations with China. We will vigorously promote the effective implementation of policies for special customs operations of the Hainan Free Trade Port, further enhance the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, optimize the regional layout and coverage of pilot free trade zones, and support these zones in carrying out more robust institutional opening-up trials in areas such as market access, environmental standards and government procurement, so as to better leverage their role as comprehensive pilot platforms for reform and opening-up," said Wang.
Wang said China will promote the orderly planning of cross-border industrial and supply chains.
Efforts will be made to deepen economic and trade cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, enhance integration and connectivity across production and supply chains, and encourage cooperation in areas including green development, the digital economy, green minerals, new infrastructure and new energy so as to help build global production and supply chain partnerships that are equal, inclusive and constructive, he noted.
"We will give play to the platform role of overseas economic and trade cooperation zones, expand overseas marketing networks and explore international markets through outward investment, achieve mutual promotion between investment and trade, and advance the integrated development of trade and investment. We will also improve the overseas comprehensive service system and the national-level overseas comprehensive service platform," said the minister.
In addition, China will participate constructively in global economic governance, according to the minister.
In 2026, Wang said, China will pursue flexible and pragmatic approaches to negotiate trade and investment agreements with more willing countries and regions, while strengthening economic and trade cooperation under multilateral frameworks such as BRICS, G20 and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to further promote mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.
China to expand high-standard opening-up to foster win-win cooperation: minister
