On May 22nd, International Biodiversity Day, the documentary “China’s Qinling: The Memory of a Golden Snub-nosed Monkey”, co-produced by CCTV Social Education Program Center, France’s Third View Productions and China Radio, Film and TV Program Exchange, premiered on CCTV’s Science Education Channel. The documentary, which took three years to create, was jointly produced by the top documentary teams from China and France, with a team of experts led by Professor Li Baoguo from the School of Life Sciences of Northwest University as the academic director, and for the first time the most authoritative research on the life history of Sichuan snub-nosed monkeys was released to the world in the form of a documentary.
The 52-minute documentary vividly shows the scientific achievements of the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey research team at Northwest University over the past 30 years. It is a detailed record of the team leader, Prof. Li Baoguo, who has been running around in the dense forests of the Qinling Mountains for years, and after numerous setbacks and attempts, has successfully “lured the monkeys down from the trees”, making it possible to habitually observe them at close range, and becoming the first team in China to systematically study the behavioral ecology and genetics of primates. As the research on golden monkeys continues to deepen, Prof. Li Baoguo has also explored a number of related fields, including further research on the behavior and genetics of Sichuan golden monkeys, AI behavior recognition technology, construction of the Qinling Golden Monkey National Park, academic achievements to serve rural revitalization, and popular science education for primary and secondary school students.
In order to arouse public interest in the documentary, the documentary’s creative team also produced more than ten short videos, which were released on social media platforms such as Weibo, Tiktok, Bilibili in the pre-premiere period, bringing up a lot of buzz on the Internet among young people on the topics of golden snub-nosed monkey research and ecological protection, with 320 million reads on related topics across the Internet.
