Documentary film is an important category of film, which emits unique artistic charm. It provides a window for people to understand the social life, the imprint of the times and constantly draw the impetus for progress. Recently, the first Chinese Documentary Film Conference was held in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, co sponsored by the Central News Documentary Film Studio (Group), the Publicity Department of the CPC Zhuhai Municipal Committee and the China Film Association, and organized by the Zhuhai Media Group and the Documentary Film Working Committee of the China Film Association. The three-day conference is not only a centralized display of Chinese image memory, but also a broad platform for recording film creators, experts and scholars, directors of distribution and screening institutions and media people to talk about development, share opportunities and create a future together. Build a platform to inject new momentum and a new era into the development of Chinese documentary films. Documentary films are promising, and people are more and more accustomed to touching the pulse of the times and feeling the temperature of the times through documentary images. Ren Zhonglun, vice chairman of the China Film Association, said at the meeting that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a large number of documentary filmmakers have written endless people's epics with real light and true stories. A number of excellent documentary film works have become important carriers to tell the story of China in the new era, promote the Chinese spirit, and demonstrate China's strength, playing an important role in gathering people's hearts, warming people's hearts, and strengthening confidence. When talking about why the First Chinese Documentary Film Conference was held, Jiang Haiqing, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Central News Documentary Film Studio (Group) and Chairman of the Documentary Film Working Committee of the China Film Association, pointed out that the holding of the conference is an important measure to implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and aims to unite and encourage the vast number of documentary film workers to strive to write a chapter of the era for the prosperity and development of documentary films on the new journey, Injecting new momentum into the climbing of the peak of Chinese documentary films, building consensus for Chinese documentary filmmakers, expanding new space for exchanges and cooperation, and creating new opportunities for exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese culture and the world culture. Literature and art are the bugles of the times. The Chinese Documentary Film Conference is not only an opportunity to build a communication platform, gather record resources, promote industrial development, but also an opportunity to display the city's image. Tan Jing, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhuhai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and head of the Publicity Department, said that he would take this conference as an opportunity to comprehensively strengthen exchanges and cooperation with creators, experts, scholars and production and distribution institutions in the field of documentary films, create more high-quality documentaries that vividly record the times and describe the people, tell stories about Zhuhai, the Bay Area and China, spread the voice of China, and show the world a credible, lovely and respectable image of China. Respect the rules and strive to create films that are both popular and popular. With the rapid development of the Internet and communication technology, in the era when everyone is a recorder, how can we create excellent documentary films that are both popular and popular? At the theme forum of "A New Path to the Development of Documentary Films in the Media Era", Liu Jianzhong, the former director of the Film Bureau of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, pointed out that documentary films should first respect the law, while adhering to their duties and missions, they should adapt to market demand and audience preferences, fully understand the consumer psychology of audience in the cinema, and move closer to feature films and even science fiction movies in terms of visual effects, dynamic images and other technical conditions, Pursue better visibility and appreciation. We should grasp the communication characteristics and