"China's Challenges" presents China's industrialization at the expense of environment degradation as manifested by worsening floods and air pollution. (Photo : Getty Images)
"China's Challenges," a TV series co-produced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and The Kuhn Foundation in association with Shanghai Media Group, won an Emmy Award for Best Crime/Social Issues Programming.
The series is composed of five episodes that present the current situation of Chinese society and how the country is moving towards industrialization.
According to pbssocal.org, PBS's website, the series "chronicles China's tremendous changes, and how the problems caused by these changes are shaping the lives and futures of more than one billion citizens."
The first episode delved on President Xi Jinping's "Chinese dream" and the massive social inequities and gaps in social services in the country.
In the second episode, the series answered the question "where is China's economy going?" The show proceeded with a discourse on China's growth and its impact on the country's pollution crisis.
The third to fifth episode featured the people's changing lifestyle and social classes. The host also presented the problems of China's issues with intellectual property and shifting gears in manufacturing.
The show's creator, host, and writer is Robert Lawrence Kuhn. He has been an adviser to China's leaders for a long time and has studied the country's strategies for business and finance.
"To our knowledge," he said, "'China's Challenges' is the first international television production in association with a major China-based media organization that has won this prestigious Emmy award.
He added that the series stresses on "the special benefits of our unique U.S.-China collaboration to tell the true story of China to the world."
"China's Challenges" was aired in the US and reached 120 markets. The series was also shown in Canada, Germany, and Australia.
