China News Network, Guangzhou, November 30 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The Information Office of the People's Government of Guangdong Province held a press conference on the 20th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Film Festival in Guangzhou on November 30. Wang Xiao, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Radio and Television, said that 7280 documentaries from 156 countries and regions participated in the festival, including 3234 works from 58 countries that jointly built the "the Belt and Road", and more than half of the works from overseas participated in the evaluation. At the press conference. The 20th China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival will be held in Guangzhou from December 4th to December 7th, with the theme of "light and shadow documentary, mutual learning of civilizations". At that time, nearly a thousand documentary agencies and over 4000 professionals from around the world will participate in the event. Wang Xiao stated that this year's documentary festival has set up 13 categories of excellent documentary feature films, short films, as well as excellent Chinese story documentary feature films and short films for evaluation. At the same time, we will focus on building a national level professional festival exhibition and an international level investment and financing trading platform, and launch more than 80 professional documentary activities around five major links: collection and evaluation, market transactions, industry exchanges, professional forums, and international training. It is reported that this year's documentary festival has also broken the original mode of hosting, introducing traditional culture, intangible cultural heritage projects and other exhibition performances, and setting up an Asian content cooperation zone to promote deepening cultural exchanges with Asian countries. "This documentary festival emphasizes both professionalism and mass appeal." Liu Yumei, Director of Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, introduced that from a professional perspective, this documentary festival has set up a forum on "Innovation of International Communication Concept and Path Breakthrough of Documentary Short Videos" to explore how to use documentary short videos to promote innovation of international communication concept, path breakthrough and format innovation, and propose solutions to promote the development of China's digital culture industry. At the same time, in line with popular topics, AI technology workshops are set up, and Emmy award-winning technology executives and producers are specially invited to share professional knowledge in the fields of virtual reality and augmented reality, providing documentary filmmakers with new perspectives and storylines. (End) (Lai Xin She)