CMG airs documentary program on youth sci-tech innovation

Leaders In Future Tech+ (LIFT+), a large-scale documentary program focused on youth sci-tech innovation, made for integrated-media, was officially aired on Oct 3 by China Media Group (CMG).

Starting Oct 3, the program is set to air every Saturday at 17:30 on CMG's CCTV-4 channel and be simultaneously presented across its Yangshipin new media matrix.

The program, jointly produced by China Media Group, the Ministry of Education, and the municipal government of Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, brings together resources from industry, academia, research, and investment sectors to make a comprehensive showcase of the thriving ecosystem and dynamic growth of China's youth-led sci-tech innovation.

Since its launch, LIFT+ has held 15 preliminary rounds spanning 10 cities across China. Following a rigorous selection process involving nearly 500 registered enterprises and innovation teams, 100 groups of young innovators -- with an average age of 28 -- gathered in Nanjing to embark on a journey of growth, bridging technology with capital and connecting creative ideas with industry.

The premiere episode of the program uses a documentary-style perspective to chronicle the journeys of 22 teams of young innovators who unanimously passed the preliminary selection. A panel of "Youth Innovation Ambassadors" -- comprising over a dozen academicians, industry experts, and heads of leading investment firms -- is set up to help the young innovators take the center stage.

LIFT+ has demonstrated significant effectiveness in empowering the industry. Through multiple rounds of selection and a series of implementation-focused events, the program has secured investment intentions totaling over 485 million yuan (nearly 72.5 million US dollars) across 34 participating sci-tech enterprises. Furthermore, its collaboration with the city of Nanjing has led to 31 businesses setting up shop there.

CMG airs documentary program on youth sci-tech innovation

Uganda is tightening border health screenings, after neighboring Kenya reported its first death from Ebola.

More than 4,000 people have been killed by Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the first case was reported in mid-May.

At busy crossing points along Uganda's border with the DRC, health workers have ramped up health screenings for those arriving from Congo.

Travelers are being screened for symptoms, including fever, as surveillance of possible Ebola infections has been strengthened.

The heightened measures follow the death of a Kenyan man who had been living in the DRC for seven years.

He traveled by road through eastern DRC and Uganda, before flying from Kampala to Nairobi, where he later died.

Health officials in Uganda and Kenya say he didn't have a fever when he was screened at the airport.

That has highlighted the difficulty of detecting the virus early, since people may not show symptoms when they first travel.

Uganda has recent experience with the disease. It recorded 20 confirmed cases and two deaths in an outbreak declared in May this year.

Health experts say the outbreak involves the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus, for which there is currently no approved vaccine.

Clinical trials are underway for vaccines targeting the strain.

Uganda tightens DRC border screening after Kenya records imported Ebola death