Zhao: PTV will soon air Chinese shows dubbed in Tagalog

Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua on Wednesday, June 13, announced that government-owned People’s Television Network (PTV) will soon air Chinese television series, cartoons, documentaries, and movies dubbed in Tagalog. (Photo: Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of the Philippines)

Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua on Wednesday, June 13, announced that government-owned People’s Television Network (PTV) will soon air Chinese television series, cartoons, documentaries, and movies dubbed in Tagalog.

This announcement was made at the inauguration of China TV Theatre at the New World Hotel in Makati City.

“From now on, our Filipino friends could, for the first time, watch Chinese TV series, documentaries, cartoons, and movies dubbed in Tagalog on PTV,” Zhao said.

The ambassador said a “new window” is opened to millions of Filipinos “to better understand China, its people, their long history, their rich culture, their daily lives, their endeavor, and their dreams.”

“I would rather name the project that we launch today as ‘DreamWorks’ made in China,” Zhao said.

The envoy stressed that these Chinese TV series and movies which will be shown on PTV will feature how Beijing’s reform and opening up in the previous 40 years have helped realize its “steady economic growth of China and better off the well-being of its people.”

“Reform and opening up really represented a strategic move to mobilize each and every Chinese striving for his or her personal happiness, for his or her family welfare, and for his or her national development. This is known as the ‘Chinese Dream,” he said.

Present during the inauguration were Philippine Communications Secretary Martin Andanar and Ma Li, Director General of the International Cooperation Department of Chinese State Administration of Radio and Television.

This television partnership came amid  the Philippines dispute with China over the West Philippine Sea (WPS).

GMA News recently reported that some Chinese fishermen took giant clams and destroyed coral reefs in Scarborough (Panatag) Shoal.

Aside from that, they were also reported to have been taking the catch of the local fishermen, even getting the best ones, in the resource-rich area.

If the accusations are proven true, Zhao earlier vowed that those erring Chinese personnel will be “disciplined.”

“We always have bad apples but if we have bad apples, you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to throw them into the South China Sea and feed the fish,” the envoy said on Tuesday, June 12.