"Going to the Southwest" took four years from script creation to filming. More than 200 actors participated in the filming. The filming covered six cities: Shanghai, Nanjing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Beijing and Guiyang. The filming scenes were all over Sichuan, Chongqing and Guizhou. and four provinces and cities in Zhejiang. The creative team includes historical consultant Yang Shengqun, chief screenwriter Zhang Qiang, directors Wang Weimin and Jin Chen, and leading actors such as An Rongsheng, Liu Zhibing, Zhang Tong, Wang Like, Qi Kui, Niu Junfeng and other senior creative staff in the industry. It concentratedly shows that the Southwest Bureau led by Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, He Long, etc. united people from all walks of life and people of all ethnic groups in the Southwest to overcome various difficulties and complete the great achievements from liberation to takeover, from transformation to construction, and promoted the southwest region to achieve earth-shaking changes. The overall play not only reflects the theme of breaking new ground and commemorating Comrade Xiaoping's film and television works as an important complement, but also demonstrates the creative depth of the southwest region's earth-shaking changes in multiple dimensions.
Chief Producer Zhou Hao told reporters that from the prime time broadcast of the CCTV Comprehensive Channel (cctv-1) to the end, the drama reached over 200 million viewers and the cumulative broadcast volume exceeded 241 million. According to the China Audiovisual Big Data of the Radio and Television Program Rating System of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the peak ratings of the drama set a record and broke 3.5% for the first time. The historical peak was as high as 3.74%, and the market share reached 18.46%. During the broadcast period, the average ratings were 2.76% and the average viewership share was 11.83%. It continuously ranked first in the average prime time ratings of all channels and set a new high in ratings for major revolutionary TV dramas in recent years.
Especially with the support of the New Media Alliance, the drama has been active on the Douyin platform, with over 100 million views on the main topic, and has continuously entered the top 10 of the Douyin hot list, achieving a major breakthrough for major revolutionary TV dramas on the Douyin platform.
As one of Sichuan Province’s major literary and artistic support achievements, the outstanding achievements of the TV series "Towards the Southwest" reflect the vigorous development of the "Sichuan Army of Film and Television" in recent years. In the future, Sichuan will take this as a new starting point, rely on the height of overall planning and the intensity of policy support, and focus on building a new highland for the western film and television industry with international influence. At the same time, we insist on the organic unity of ideology and artistry, promotion of the main theme and promotion of diversity, social benefits and economic benefits, increase the selection and planning of themes that display Sichuan's history and culture, and praise the new achievements of the construction of New Sichuan, and create and launch more national-level projects. A masterpiece "Made in Sichuan" that expresses Sichuan characteristics and contemporary narrative.
