Latest Chinese TV series, movies to be aired in Africa

Several Chinese TV series and movies dubbed into English will be aired in Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa.

The '2015 Beijing TV Dramas & Movies Broadcasting Exhibition'was launched on Wednesday in Kenya by Beijing municipal authority.

Speaking at the press conference held in the capital Nairobi, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television Yang Peili noted the exhibition presents a unique platform to enhance cultural exchanges between China and African countries.

Those to be showcased include Ordinary World, a TV series based on a prize-winning novel depicting people's lives in the northern Chinese villages during the mid 1970s to 1980s, and Love Is Not Blind, a movie of a modern romantic love story.

"The exhibition which typically presents Beijing local TV dramas and films will continuously enhance the publicity of their broadcast content in Kenya and Africa at large," noted Yang Peili.

In the following one-year period, audience in the three African countries will enjoy some 30 Chinese TV series and movies, the Chinese organizers told the conference.

"The growth in cultural ties have led to Chinese TV dramas and movies gaining popularity, hence becoming a significant cultural force in building relations between the two countries," said Hassan Wario, Kenya's Sports, Culture and Arts Cabinet Secretary.

In 2011 and 2013, a Chinese TV comedy series about a modern Chinese couple was aired in Tanzania and Kenya respectively, gaining popularity among local audience.

The '2015 Beijing TV Dramas & Movies Broadcasting Exhibition'will be aired on a channel of StarTimes -- a leading Chinese-run TV service provider in sub Saharan Africa, covering 80% of the region's population. Endit