What is your impression of Hong Kong? There are many high-rise buildings, dazzling neon advertisements, people who are always walking fast, and behind the bustle and bustle, there is a simple and down-to-earth urban life.
Hong Kong is like a beautiful oil painting palette, with bright purples, reds, and emeralds interspersed with gorgeous and modern bright tones. Here, the dazzling edge of modernity and the gentle texture polished by time are harmoniously combined, and together they constitute today's Hong Kong. What would everything look like if you looked down from a high altitude?
Produced by the China Central Radio and Television Station Film and Television Documentary Center, the documentary "Hong Kong from the Sky" will premiere on the CCTV-9 Documentary Channel on July 1, and will take you to fly over the familiar but different Pearl of the Orient .
Overlooking Hong Kong, behind the bustling scene is the soothing
Hong Kong in the early morning. Starting from a piece of unexpected greenery, the super volcano at Leung Shuen Wan has experienced hundreds of millions of years. In the lush greenery, there are monkeys roaming in the forest. There are dolphins and shuttles between ships.
Crossing the hillside and developing upward from the coastal path a century ago, Central is now the most densely built financial center in the world. When global information and wealth are spread here, people seem to walk with an unstoppable momentum. . The clanging trams keep ringing. In this unique urban sound effect, Hong Kong has made "prosperity" synonymous with itself.
However, life here has always been more than prosperous. The numbers on the buildings here are rising and falling rapidly, and the lion dance on the rooftop there has been performing several moves; behind the steel and concrete, there are colorful streets; vehicles are flowing continuously in the city, and snacks are The fireworks in the shop were lively and lively. This is Hong Kong from above, different in every detail and yet strangely soothing.
Overlooking Hong Kong, behind the speed are fireworks
Today's Hong Kong, the city's reputation is too loud, and people may forget that it is a seaport. In the Victoria Harbor in the afternoon, sailing boats were swimming in the vast ocean. The smoothness of racing against the waves was actually better than that of your car, which made it difficult to extricate yourself. When everything calms down, when the whole city slows down in the middle of the night, Hong Kong returns to its most familiar appearance in Temple Street Night Market. Colorful plastic sheds, folding stools and soup-making stir-fries make up the scene on the screen. Hong Kong is the most popular place. When the original aroma steams up with the heat, it gradually nourishes people's warm, peaceful and indifferent days.
This is also Hong Kong from a bird’s eye view. It often meets us on the screen, but behind the busy streets and cross-sea bridges, there is another side of ordinary fireworks. It turns out that a day can be so short, and it turns out that Hong Kong can be so simple.
25 years ago, Hong Kong returned to the embrace of the motherland. 25 years later, we overlook the vast and majestic Hong Kong and explore its different scenery from a high place. Facing the sea and with the mainland at its back, it is the Hong Kong in your impression and the world beyond your imagination. What kind of exciting future will such a mysterious and magnificent Hong Kong have? On July 1st, lock the CCTV-9 record channel and let’s find the answer together.
Pictures and texts from China Central Radio and Television Station
Editor: Wang Yan
