The busy financial industry is many people’s first impression of Shanghai. The 40-episode TV series "City Within a City" adapted from the novel of the same name by Shanghai writer Teng Xiaolan is a work that depicts Shanghai's financial industry. This drama is directed by Teng Huatao, written by Bian Zhihong, Wu Nan, Tian Yu, and starring Bai Yufan, Yu Hewei, Xia Meng, Chen Jin, etc., with sharp strokes, tearing apart the invisible battle for money and desire in the financial industry. , truly shows that two generations of financial people face various professional difficulties and temptations and adhere to the financial order of "seeking progress while maintaining stability", showing distinctive characteristics of the times and practical significance.
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As a major literary and artistic creation funding project in Shanghai, "City Within a City" was selected into CCTV's 2024 "Major Drama Watching Station" film list, and will be broadcast on CCTV's prime time slot and iQiyi from April 9 .
Focusing on the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics
The original work "City Within a City" was rated as one of the ten "Outstanding Realistic Literatures" by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2018. It is a financial-themed novel in a realistic style. As a Shanghai writer born in the 1970s, Teng Xiaolan has always written about Shanghai from "Heart Residence" to "City Within a City". The "city within a city" she writes about refers to Lujiazui Financial City. After the development and opening up of Pudong, this area of 31.78 square kilometers has become the development area with the most complete financial factor market in China.
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The first person to discover the uniqueness of this novel was Shanghai Xingge Culture Media Company, one of the producers and producers of this drama. The main members of the company were former political and economic reporters for Shanghai TV and print media. Their journalistic acumen enabled them to immediately discover the complexity of human nature and profound reality contained in the novel "City Within a City", and invited representative realistic dramas Director Teng Huatao leads the creation.
In order to restore the excitement of the original work to the greatest extent, Teng Huatao led the creative team to polish the script for four years. During the period, the creative team had face-to-face interviews with many practitioners in the banking industry, trust industry, investment industry, real estate industry, regulatory bureau, etc., and gained an all-round and multi-angle insight into the work and life of people in the "city".
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"I hope to combine the career choices and destiny ups and downs of financial practitioners with the development process of building an international financial center." Teng Huatao explained the original intention of the creation, "I hope to record the real workplace experience and daily life of financial people, Create the image of a group of young people who adhere to professional ethics and maintain financial order, use artistic creation to face China's transforming financial system, and look forward to the Chinese financial industry that will eventually achieve better and healthier development. "
truly presents the image of the financial community.
TV series "City within a City" focuses on the background of national financial reform and development around 2018. It takes the confusion and struggle, and the life choices of integrity and struggle of the two generations of bankers Tao Wuji and Zhao Hui as the entry point, and panoramically It unfolds the ups and downs of various people in the financial city including banks, securities, trusts, investment banks, and real estate developers, reflecting the surging tide of the great era of financial reform and development and answering the important proposition that "finance must serve the real economy."
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The main creative lineup of this drama is strong. Teng Huatao won the Magnolia Award for Best Director at the 15th Shanghai TV Festival for "Wang Gui and Anna". His representative works include "Dwelling in a Dwelling", "Double-Sided Tape", " Ups and Downs " and "Heart Residence". Bian Zhihong and Wu Nan, the golden partners, have worked together as screenwriters for the TV series "October Siege", "Dragon City" and the movie " Full City with Golden Armor". The lead actor Yu Hewei won the "Best Actor" at the 27th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award for "The Awakening Age", and Chen Jin was the double winner of the Hundred Flowers Award and the Huabiao Award.
To a certain extent, "City Within a City" is a financial drama. From the fledgling teller, the president of a joint-stock commercial bank who is deeply hunted, the upright auditor, the person in charge of the public affairs department who is good at using power, the real estate developer behind the scenes, the greedy fund boss, to the urban stock investors who are looking forward to luck. , ordinary people who are satisfied with ordinary happiness, in front of the torrent of "money desire", the efforts and hesitation of young people, the integrity and struggle of middle-aged people, etc. are vividly portrayed.
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Teng Huatao said that the financial industry is a highly professional and highly focused industry. “In terms of narrative, performance and imaging, we hope to be as close to the characteristics of the industry as possible, handle it with an implicit and lively rhythm, and abandon external techniques in order to achieve direct impact. The shock of human nature. "
"City within the City" is jointly produced by China National Radio and Television, China TV Drama Production Center Co., Ltd., iQiyi, and Shanghai Xingge Culture Media Co., Ltd., and produced by Shanghai Xingge Culture Media Co., Ltd. If " Blossoms " shows the financial legend of the wild growth of the stock market in the 1990s, "City Within a City" reflects the more magnificent financial situation today and fully reflects the difficulty and inevitability of building a socialist financial system with Chinese characteristics. It is China's Another masterpiece of realistic film and television drama.
