China Central Television (CCTV) hosted the initial Producers’ Meeting of Series Three of the Change Asia, Rescue the Earth (CARE) project, held this past weekend, for the first time.

CCTV assumed the role of Executive Producer for this series, with Korean Broadcasting System as the Project Manager.

Each participating broadcaster will be required to produce a documentary regarding youth-related issues by early next year and the programmes will be distributed to all participating organisations for broadcast.

Fifteen ABU members were in Beijing presenting their storyline proposals: NHK-Japan, KBS-Korea, RTHK-Hong Kong, RTM-Malaysia, Metro TV-Indonesia, NBT-Thailand, LNTV-Laos, BBS-Bhutan, THAI PBS-Thailand, VTV-Vietnam, CCTV-China, IRIB-Iran, TRT-Turkey, RTTL-Timor Leste and MediaCorp-Singapore.