In fact, if you have to say that you single-handedly promoted the cooperation between Shenzhen TV and ATV, Lin Xiaozhi put some gold on his face.

Although he hasn't paid much attention to the mainland TV drama market in recent years, he still knows that in fact, in the past 1990-91, a TV series that deeply affected the mainland TV pattern was born.

This TV series is called "Desire" is a tear-jerking main theme TV series, which clearly tells the joys and sorrows of a woman who combines all the unlucky events, and the unprecedented ratings of more than 90% at the time of screening unexpectedly made the censorship department seem to find a standard for the "main theme TV series", and it has also successfully relied on episode after episode of heart-wrenching plots to successfully let the mainland enter the era of tissue soap operas.

It is this TV series that has reawakened the mainland's enthusiasm for more and better TV dramas, not only promoting the development of local TV dramas, but also reopening the door to the introduction of foreign dramas that have been closed for many years, and reactivating the introduction of TV dramas that have been silent in the mainland for many years.

Powerful TV stations on the mainland naturally choose to make their own films or introduce them with a lot of money in order to obtain higher ratings to attract advertisers. Shenzhen TV is also more embarrassed to say that its identity is just like Shenzhen.

Although it is known as the 'window of reform in the mainland', Shenzhen is still a relatively embarrassing place in the mainland today.

As we all know, long before the reform, Shenzhen was just a dilapidated fishing port, not to mention that it was not conspicuous compared to Hong Kong, which is separated by a body of water, and even compared to other coastal cities on the mainland. The only thing that can be said to be brilliant at the beginning is probably that it is too close to the internationally renowned free port - Hong Kong.

Its unique geographical location has made Shenzhen stand out from the cities of many coastal provinces in South China, and has not only become a city of oriental miracles that has attracted worldwide attention, but also directly received attention from the highest centers of power.

However, because of this, Shenzhen, which caught up with the spring breeze of reform, rushed to the forefront of the mainland's reform, and jumped from a dilapidated fishing port to a provincial municipality in Guangdong. But its special status is destined to develop is necessary to compete with the whole province of Guangdong, especially the provincial capital Guangzhou, for resources, and the direct attention from the central government has simply made Guangdong Province more and more excluded Shenzhen from its own system in the process of development.

Therefore, since the mid-80s, successive leading bodies of Shenzhen have been seeking the status of a 'municipality directly under the central government', and when they have obtained it, they have soared to the sky and completely got rid of the influence of Guangdong Province on it. However, Sijiucheng was very cautious on this point, so much so that Shenzhen, a city at the forefront of reform on the mainland, could only endure the fact that it was excluded from the inner circle of Guangdong Province under the shiny back.

Far from it, for example, Shenzhen TV is a local TV station in Guangdong Province, it does not have the ability to produce independent TV dramas, Guangdong TV has been friendly with TVB since the 80s, and has bought the copyright of many TV dramas, but it has always been broadcast by itself, even if Shenzhen TV wants to buy it, most of them have been categorically refused.

It is not surprising that, after all, Guangdong TV is a provincial station, and Guangdong, as the province with the most comprehensive reform and opening up on the mainland, has been affected by the commercial operation methods of several Hong Kong television stations across the water, and it is normal for the philistines to be at all.

It's just that these local stations in Shenzhen have suffered because of this, because they also focus on Cantonese programs, and Shenzhen TV has been pressed by Guangdong TV so much that they can't raise their heads at all. This is also the reason why Shenzhen TV took the initiative to contact ATV this time, not long ago, Lin Xiaozhi sent someone to go north to buy out the broadcast rights of several mainland TV dramas including "Journey to the West" and "Dream of Red Mansions" with the mainland, which spread widely in the mainland. Shenzhen TV also took into account that Lin Xiaozhi has a lot of cooperation with Shenzhen, so he hoped to introduce some TV series from them to change the current unfavorable situation, so he took the initiative to send someone to contact ATV to find out.

Many of ATV's executives were fired before, and Lin Xiaozhi emphasized the development of the mainland market in internal meetings more than once afterwards, so this time Shenzhen sent someone to contact, and Zheng Danrui, who was in charge of reception, immediately gave him over.

cooperated with Shenzhen TV, he couldn't wait to raise ten hands in favor of this matter, you must know that he didn't know how long he had been coveting the relationship between TVB and Guangdong TV. However, Guangdong TV is a provincial Taiwan with deep wealth and has always cooperated with TVB, and in 79 and 89, they even held two sessions of the 'Yangcheng Spring Festival Gala' together, and even TVB filmed reporters to interview in the mainland, and they could get some help from Guangdong TV, and there was no place for ATV to intervene at all. This time, Shenzhen TV took the initiative to send it to the door, which is undoubtedly a good opportunity for him and ATV.

At the same time, he also asked ATV to treat this matter seriously, and asked ATV President Le Jin to personally invite the senior management of Shenzhen Taiwan, hoping that they could send people to Hong Kong for detailed discussions!

Shenzhen TV was originally the first to take the initiative to contact the party, but at the beginning, I was a little worried about the consistent arrogance of Hong Kong people, and they would not attach importance to their own local station.

Now, seeing ATV's positive reply, it is rare to be highly efficient, and soon secretly dispatched a number of high-level executives such as Zou Guanglin, director of Shenzhen Station, and Lin Ze, editor-in-chief, to Hong Kong to negotiate the introduction of TV dramas and other cooperation.

Lin Xiaozhi's identity is there, so after the arrival of Shenzhen Taiyi, there was no contact with him, but although he asked Lejin and Zheng Danrui to be responsible for reception and negotiation, he always paid attention to the things here, so that many people in the crew felt that he was obviously absent-minded and wasted some film.

Since the launch of Shenzhen TV in 84, it has been pressed by the provincial station in Guangdong Province to the point of not being able to raise its head, so it naturally went straight to the topic.

“…… Shenzhen is only separated by a river, but every time we see the achievements of the TV workers in Hong Kong, we are very emotional and admired by the Shenzhen TV station. Because our Shenzhen TV station was just established a few years ago, its strength and influence are worse than many TV stations in the mainland. However, Shenzhen is the window of reform on the mainland, and although we are only a local television station, we enjoy autonomy that many provincial-level television stations in the mainland do not have. This time, I took the initiative to contact you, firstly, I want to introduce some TV dramas from ATV to meet the audience who love Hong Kong TV dramas in the mainland, and secondly, I also want to further strengthen cooperation with ATV, and I hope you can help us train some professional producers and hosts! ”

Originally, they just asked for ATV, so although Zou Guanglin was the director of Shenzhen Station, his attitude was very low.

Of course, in the end, it is a person who has been dealing with politics all the year round, and there are words hidden in the words, not forgetting to hint at the particularity of ATV's 'Shenzhen TV' here.

Le Jin and Zheng Danrui had already received Lin Xiaozhi's instructions, so they didn't mean to be embarrassed at all. Seeing him come up and go straight to the point, the two looked at each other and listened to Le Jin laugh and said: "Director Zou is too polite, in fact, our ATV has cooperated with the mainland a long time ago." In the early 80s, ATV sent a number of patriotic-themed TV dramas such as "Huo Yuanjia" and "Chen Zhen" to the mainland, and it is said that they were also loved by many mainland compatriots, which made us Hong Kong TV workers feel very gratified. Therefore, your station hopes to establish more cooperation with our ATV, which is a good thing for mutual benefit and win-win, of course, we have raised our hands and agreed, and it is no problem to help you train some professional producers and hosts. I just don't know what works you are going to introduce with us this time? ”

ATV readily agreed to make the Shenzhen audience overjoyed, but Zou Guanglin and others hesitated a little in introducing dramas, ""Huo Yuanjia" and "Chen Zhen", we hope to introduce these two TV series, and the Cantonese version is also OK. As for other TV series, I don't know if you can arrange for someone to let us choose the next ......."

In the final analysis, the reason why they hesitate is because the 'scale' of many Hong Kong dramas is too large, let alone thinking about the review of radio and television in the mainland, it is estimated that they will be killed or even held accountable if they are sent to it.