The China Film Week 2025 opened in Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday, gathering nearly 500 representatives from Myanmar's film, literature, education and media sectors as well as overseas Chinese communities in the Southeast Asian country.
The four-day event also marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relationship between China and Myanmar.
Myanmar's Union Minister for Information U Maung Maung Ohn said at the opening ceremony that Chinese films have been very popular in Myanmar and will help deepen mutual understanding between two peoples and bring them closer to each other.
The film week provides a good opportunity for the two countries to promote cooperation and development in the film industry and consolidate bilateral friendship, the minister added.
The event will see the screening of eight Chinese films including Wu Kong, a mythological story featuring Monkey King, a character familiar to Burmese audiences, and the historical war drama film The Eight Hundred.
"I grew up listening to stories about the Monkey King since I was a child, so I'm very happy to have the opportunity to attend the China Film Week, and I'm really interested in the Chinese culture and Chinese films," said a visitor.
"I think the film week will further deepen the friendship and mutual understanding between Chinese and Myanmar people," said another visitor.
China Film Week 2025 opens in Myanmar
Smart technologies have reshaped China's ecological and environmental monitoring system, Huang Runqiu, minister of Ecology and Environment, said Thursday in Beijing on the sidelines of the fourth session of the 14th National People's Congress(NPC).
"Regarding ecological and environmental monitoring, we have been promoting the digitalization, informatization, and intelligentization of the entire monitoring process in recent years, reshaping the ecological and environmental monitoring system. For instance, in water environment monitoring and sampling, we have used intelligent drones which can quickly locate sampling points, collect samples accurately, return rapidly, and they are safe and reliable, improving work efficiency by over 70 percent. They are particularly advantageous for sampling during flood seasons and in remote areas," Huang told the press.
"In terms of environmental sample analysis, we have developed 'lights-out laboratories' in recent years. As the name suggests, these labs operate without lights and are unattended. Through robotic arms, robots, and intelligent management systems, they achieve full-process automation and intelligence from sample handover, testing, and analysis to report generation. This has significantly enhanced work efficiency, increasing it by more than eightfold compared to traditional labs. More importantly, it reduces human interference, human error, and even data falsification," he said.
Thanks to the improved ecological and environmental supervision capabilities, the number of environmental violation cases nationwide has decreased from 130,000 five years ago to 43,000 last year, representing a decline of 68 percent, Huang said.
The minister said China has already applied environmental DNA technology in the biodiversity monitoring work.
"In the field of biodiversity monitoring, monitoring aquatic organisms remains a weak point. However, significant progress has been made in recent years as we have developed environmental DNA technology. Although this chip is very small in size, it contains DNA detection information for aquatic organisms, including the finless porpoise and the Chinese sucker, from 19 state-controlled sections in the Jiangsu segment of the Yangtze River. The results showed that over the past five years, more than 20 species of aquatic organisms have increased in this river section, fully demonstrating the tangible effectiveness of the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River," Huang said while showing a chip to reporters.
The 14th NPC, China's national legislature, concluded its fourth session on Thursday.
Smart technologies reshape China's ecological, environmental monitoring system: minister
