The launch ceremony of "UPanda Cinema" and the China-themed Program Showcase Season in Malaysia was held in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, bringing together more than 100 representatives from government departments, cultural institutions and the film and television industry from both China and Malaysia.
As the first ever showcase season featuring Chinese programs in Malay, the activity will last until the 2026 Chinese New Year holiday season in February, airing Chinese TV series, documentaries, and animated series with a total length of over 100 hours on Astro Group Malay Language TV channels.
During Saturday's event, the China Intercontinental Communication Center signed agreements on micro-drama production and China-Malaysia cultural exchange cooperation in the film and television industry respectively with Malaysia's Mango Media and Juxta Films.
The program, "UPanda Cinema," was officially launched in 2021. It has worked with mainstream local media in over 20 countries and regions, including Russia, France, South Africa, India, and Central Asia, reaching a cumulative overseas audience of more than 130 million.
China-themed film, cultural exchange event kicks off in Malaysia
China's 42nd Antarctic Expedition team has started unloading supplies for scientific exploration after arriving at waters near the Zhongshan Station, a Chinese research base in Antarctica.
The ongoing seven-month scientific exploration mission is supported by Chinese icebreakers the Xuelong and the Xuelong 2, which set sail from Shanghai on Nov 1.
The two icebreakers will deliver about 2,000 tons of supplies to the Zhongshan Station for scientific exploration.
The Xuelong 2 arrived first at a designated unloading spot about 12 kilometers from the Zhongshan Station. Later, the ship's Ka-32 helicopter transported in batches more than 300 tons of polar fuel to the research base when weather conditions were favorable.
"Nearly 90 members of the expedition team carried by the two ship are already at the Zhongshan Station, preparing for receiving supplies and assignments for scientific exploration," said Wang Tao, person in charge of unloading operations at the Zhongshan Station.
Thanks to more than 30 hours of efforts by the Xuelong 2 to widen the channel and lead the way, the Xuelong, which was carrying about 1,500 tons of supplies, has also arrived at the unloading spot.
The unloading operations, involving a combination of sea-ice transport and helicopter lifts, are expected to be finished within two weeks.
And then, the Xuelong and the Xuelong 2 will proceed to China's Qingling Station and Changcheng Station in Antarctica, respectively.
The expedition team includes more than 500 members from over 80 institutions on the Chinese mainland, along with researchers from more than 10 other countries and regions, such as Thailand, Chile and Portugal, as well as China's Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, in support of broader international scientific collaboration.
They will conduct multi-disciplinary scientific surveys, advance several major national research projects, and test domestically developed equipment under polar conditions.
Particularly, scientific drilling experiments in lakes deep in the Antarctic inland ice sheet will be carried out for the first time.
China's 42nd Antarctic Expedition team unloads supplies at Zhongshan Station
