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A Better Life (TV Series)
''A Better Life'' ( zh, c=蛮好的人生, "Pretty Good Life") is a 2025 Chinese workplace-drama television series directed by Wang Jun and starring Sun Li and Dong Zijian. Produced by China Central Television (CCTV), Shangshi Film & TV and Youku, the 36-episode series premiered on 17 April 2025 in CCTV-8’s prime-time slot with simultaneous online release on Youku. Plot Hu Manli ( Sun Li) is a 39-year-old star insurance broker in Shanghai whose life implodes when both her marriage and a career-making deal collapse on the same day. The person behind the sabotage is Xue Xiaozhou (Dong Zijian), a disillusioned 28-year-old heir who has just entered the insurance business. After several confrontations, the pair recognise their complementary strengths and form a mentor–protégé partnership, rebuilding their reputations while confronting ethical dilemmas within China’s modern insurance sector. Cast * Sun Li as Hu Manli – 39-year-old elite broker * Dong Zijian as Xue X ...
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Sun Li (actress)
Sun Li ( zh , s = 孙俪 , born 26 September 1982), also known as Susan Sun, is a Chinese actress, best known for TV dramas such as ''Goddess of Mercy'' (2003), ''Happiness as Flowers'' (2005), ''Shanghai Bund'' (2007), '' Empresses in the Palace'' (2011), '' The Legend of Mi Yue'' (2015), and '' Nothing Gold Can Stay'' (2017). Her films include '' Painted Skin'' (2008), '' The Breakup Guru'' (2014)'', Devil and Angel'' (2015), and ''Shadow'' (2018). In 2018, she became the youngest actress to win China's TV "Grand Slam", after winning the country's three biggest television awards, the Flying Apsaras Awards, Golden Eagle Awards and Magnolia Awards. Career Sun first entered show business by participating in 2001's '' Star Search'', held by Singapore's MediaCorp. She reached the finals and earned the praise of judge Andy Lau. Following the competition, Sun joined Hairun Media as their first flagship artist. In 2003, author and TV producer Hai Yan selected her for the female ...
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Shanghai Municipal Cultural Development Foundation
The Shanghai Cultural Development Foundation ( zh, c=上海文化发展基金会, p=Shànghǎi Wénhuà Fāzhǎn Jījīn Huì) is a non-profit organization established in November 1986 by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. It manages public and private donations to finance cultural and artistic projects across Shanghai. History Founding (1986–1990) The foundation was created by the city’s Propaganda and Finance bureaus to review grant applications and distribute cultural funding. Expansion (1991–2017) During the 1990s and 2000s SCDF broadened its grants to theatre, film, television, animation and digital media. Updated guidelines released in 2024 placed new emphasis on intangible cultural heritage and interdisciplinary projects. Changqing Cultural Fund (2018) In 2018 the Changqing Cultural Special Fund (长青文化专项基金) was established with philanthropist Liu Bing to support traditional arts and cultural exchange. It has since sponsored more than si ...
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Television Shows Set In Shanghai
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. Additionally, the term can refer to a physical television set rather than the medium of transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. The medium is capable of more than "radio broadcasting", which refers to an audio signal sent to radio receivers. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introd ...
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Youku Original Programming
Youku Tudou Inc. (formerly Youku Inc.), doing business as Youku (), is a video streaming service and former video sharing website based in Beijing, China. It operates as a subsidiary of Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Youku has its headquarters in the Sinosteel Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. On 12 March 2012, Youku reached an agreement to merger with Tudou in a stock-for-stock transaction, the new entity being named Youku Tudou Inc. In 2014, it had more than 500 million monthly active users, with 800 million daily video views. Youku is one of China's top online video and streaming service platforms, along with iQiyi, Sohu, LeTV, Tencent Video, PPTV, 56.com and Funshion. However, Youku's domination in the Chinese market was toppled by its competitor Baidu's iQiyi in 2015. History Youku was founded by Victor Koo (Gu Yongqiang), former President of Chinese Internet portal Sohu. Initial funding for the site came from 1Verge, a fund raised by him. A beta version of the ...
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China Central Television Original Programming
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six cradles of civilization, China saw the first human inhabitants in the region arriving during the Paleolithic. By the late 2nd millennium BCE, the earliest dynastic states had emerged in the Yellow River basin. The 8th–3rd centuries BCE saw a breakdown in the authority of the Zhou ...
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2025 Chinese Television Series Endings
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2025 Chinese Television Series Debuts
5 (five) is a number, numeral (linguistics), numeral and numerical digit, digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 Digit (anatomy), digits on their Limb (anatomy), limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5). 5 is the first safe prime and the first good prime. 11 forms the first pair of sexy primes with 5. 5 is the second Fermat number, Fermat prime, of a total of five known Fermat primes. 5 is also the first of three known Wilson primes (5, 13, 563). Geometry A shape with five sides is called a pentagon. The pentagon is the first regular polygon that does not Tessellation, tile the Plane (geometry), plane with copies of itself. It is the ...
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Weibo
Weibo (), or Sina Weibo (), is a Chinese microblogging ( weibo) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest social media platforms in China, with over 582 million monthly active users (252 million daily active users) as of Q1 2022. The platform has been highly successful but has faced criticism for heavy censorship. Sina had gone public on the Nasdaq in 2000. In March 2014, Sina announced a spinoff of Weibo and filed an IPO under the symbol WB. Sina carved out 11% of Weibo in the IPO, with Alibaba owning 32% post-IPO. The company began trading publicly on 17 April 2014. In March 2017, Sina launched Sina Weibo International Version. In November 2018, Sina Weibo suspended its registration function for minors under the age of 14. In July 2019, Sina Weibo announced that it would launch a two-month campaign to clean up pornographic and vulgar information, named "Project Deep Blue" (蔚蓝计划). On 29 September 2020, the company announced it ...
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Dragon Television
Shanghai Dragon Television or Dragon TV (), commonly nicknamed the Tomato Channel () based on its logo, is a provincial satellite TV station. It launched in October 1998 as "Shanghai Television" but changed its name to Dragon Television on October 23, 2003."Shanghai plans all English TV channel"
''People's Daily Online''. 23 October 2003. Retrieved 2012-10-01 Currently, Dragon TV's signal covers most of Mainland
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Beijing TV
Beijing Radio and Television Station (BRTV), formerly Beijing Media Network (BMN), is a government-owned television network in China. It broadcasts from Beijing. The channel is available only in Chinese. Broadcasts in Beijing are on AM, FM, cable FM, digital radio, digital TV and online. Beijing Media Network was founded on 16 May 1979. It covers China, Asia and North America. China Central Television was called Beijing Television from 1958 to 1978. BTV started satellite broadcasts on 1 January 1998, during the drive caused by regional television stations to begin nationwide broadcasting and in line with the government's plan to increase the number of television viewers, percentually, from 85% to 90% by 2000. In October 2022, BRTV took a minority ownership stake in Kuaishou. History Radio Beijing Corporation (RBC; , literally Beijing People's Broadcasting Station), was a family of municipal radio stations that also include news, music, and sports in Beijing. BTV started ...
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Xuhui, Shanghai
Xuhui District is a core urban district of Shanghai. It has a land area of and a population of 1,113,078 as of 2020. Xuhui District has 12 subdistricts and two townships. The Xuhui District is named after its namesake, the historic area of Xujiahui. Xujiahui was historically land owned by Ming dynasty bureaucrat and scientist Xu Guangqi, and later donated to the Roman Catholic Church. It and Luwan District jointly formed the core of Catholic Shanghai, centered in the former French Concession of Shanghai. Vestiges of the French influence can still be seen in the St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai, Xuhui College, the Xujiahui Observatory, and some remaining boulevards and French-style districts. Xujiahui itself has been redeveloped as a financial center, with a proliferation of large-scale shopping centers and department stores, and is now a major shopping destination in the city with shopping malls such as Grand Gateway Shanghai and Pacific Sogo. History Parts of today's ...
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