A brief introduction on the first day of the filming. [Video/WeChat account: wenzhoufabu]
Xinhua News Agency and the Wenzhou Overseas Media Center started filming the fifth episode of the documentary series Into the Deep Blue in Wenzhou on May 17, local media outlets reported.
Themed around nostalgia across the sea, the episode will feature Wenzhou residents living overseas and foreigners living in Wenzhou, expressing their yearning for their hometowns as well as their openness to the world.
On the first day of filming, cameras focused on a group of foreign volunteers, including Kimberly Koll-Zhu, an associate professor from the United States, and Craig Blacklock, an American who teaches English at Wenzhou-Kean University, who took part in public welfare activities and recorded a series of heart-warming stories on the streets of Wenzhou.
The foreigners looked for and helped correct inaccurate wording and non-standard expressions in foreign languages at various places throughout the city. They also distributed over 2,000 lard cakes, zongzi (traditional Chinese rice-pudding), duck eggs, fried noodles, and eight-treasure congee to sanitation workers.
They will visit local residential communities in the following days to carry out a variety of activities to help Wenzhou with international services, fighting against the epidemic, and sorting garbage.
The episode will be aired in two languages by the China Xinhua News Network Corporation in over 200 countries and regions around the world on Mid-Autumn Day, an important festival in China during which people visit their families.
