'The Elderly in Guangxi' camera crew visits Bama

The camera crew of The Elderly in Guangxi visited Jiazhuan village in Bama. [Photo by Liang Shaoen/Hechi Daily]

The camera crew of The Elderly in Guangxivisited the Bama Yao autonomous county in Hechi, Guangxi, on June 2 and 3.

The full-length documentary was sponsored by the Guangxi Party Committee Publicity Department and Guangxi Tourism Development Committee, and co-produced by CCTV-4, Guangxi TV and the Guangxi Travel Channel on CNTV.

At present, China has a total of 54 longevity villages, 19 of which are in Guangxi, accounting for 31 percent of all. Four Hechi counties and one city, namely, Bama, Donglan, Fengshan and Yizhou, have won the title. According to the second to the fifth nationwide population censuses, the centenarian proportion of the total population in Bama ranks first among the world's top five longest-living areas.

The documentary series is divided into five parts, with each lasting 30 minutes. The debut will be on CCTV-4 within the year. The documentary will explain the phenomenon of longevity in Guangxi from a Chinese viewpoint and examine its causes in historic culture, human geography, ecology and other areas.

As a key foreign publicity project of Guangxi in 2015, it will provide the world an opportunity to learn about the living conditions of people in Guangxi and establish a good image of Guangxi.

Edited by Andrew Ancheta