Documentary on poverty alleviation (扶贫) to hit cinemas
Documentary film Rooting is due to hit cinemas nationwide April 20, highlighting the stories of villagers in Yunnan Province's Shawa Village presenting the village's changes over four years.
Lately, a trailer (预告片) (release), focusing on the only road in the village of Fugong County. (live) deep in the mountains near the Nujiang Canyon, the (village) could only communicate with the outer world by travelling via a dangerous mountain track. As China's campaign poverty alleviation deepens, proper road was finally built for the village.
"This film features realistic problems in that remote village, giving credit to the contributors behind the scene and their efforts. That's the film ends with a line: ‘This film is dedicated to all those have contributed to poverty reduction in China,'" said Chai Hongfang, the film's director.
On March 17, the film held a special screening at the 2023 International Forum on Poverty Governance and Global Development, joined by more than 190 government officials and experts from 20 countries and four international organizations aiming (exchange) views on poverty governance, rural building, modernization and sustainable development.
Apart from being (public) screened, the film will also be screened in more than 100 Chinese universities and countries along the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
