Channel 4 - China Between Clouds and Dreams (2016) Part 1 A Letter from Russia

Filmed over three years, with unique access to the private side of China, this beautiful and intimate series follows the lives of everyday people across this huge country, capturing the nation's relationship with nature and the environment, as it grapples with global warming and ecological collapse in its pursuit of an ambitious new future.

Part 1 A Letter from Russia

A letter from Russian children arrives at a primary school in the coastal town of Juegang, asking the pupils to protect spoon-billed sandpipers on their migration along the Chinese coast. Four budding young journalists in the class investigate why the bird is threatened with extinction, and their investigation takes them into the heart of China's environmental crisis. Meanwhile, on the Tibetan Plateau, 13-year-old trainee monk Gama and his teacher, Lama Zhou Zha, a Living Buddha, teach environmental husbandry to nomads, in an area where many wild animals are threatened with extinction.

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