Countries: China, An ABU member country.

China is one of the biggest countries in the world, located in Eastern Asia. It's also the most populous contry in the world with over 1300 million people.
The capital city and also the second biggest one is Beijing, but the biggest one, and maby the economic capital of the country is Shanghai, which is one of the most important financial centres of the world. Anyway, there are many chinese cities with over one million of inhabitants.

National Broadcaster

CCTV (China Central Television) is the state broadcaster of the country, owned by the national government. It was launched in 1954, but the experimental broadcasts didn't start until four years later. 

It was not until the 1980, when the signal of the television station covered all the chinese territory. With the economical reforms which took place in that decade, the station started launching tematic channels and entertainment programs.

As one of the most powerful broadcasting companies, the chinese central television covered the organisation of the 2008 Beijing summer olympic games, and many other international events.

Entertainment Industry

The chinese entertainment industry, was, for many years underdeveloped, due to the censorship of the government, that didn't allow the production of Pop music, which was seen as a decadent style that didn't represent the chinese culture and values. As a result, the C-Pop industry was located firstly in Hong Kong, which, developed a cantonese dialect pop music internationally known as Cantopop. Taiwan, (which is the succesor state of the pre comunist China), developed some years later its own brand of pop music sung in Mandarin language, known as Mandopop, an style that dominates nowadays the Chinese music industry.

Mainland chinese pop music scene had started its slow but steady rise in the first 1990's, with the appearance of Faye Wong ,Na Ying, and Sun Nan, who are some of the first examples of mainland C-pop music, but it was not until the middle 2000's when the mainland chinese pop music grew rapidly. That growth took place thanks to Reallity Shows and musical competitions such as Super Girl, from where singers such as Chris Lee (Li Yuchun), Bibi Zhou (Zhou Bichang) or Jane Zhang (Zhang Liangying), started their careers. That contest also had a conterpart for boys, which gave male singers such as Jason Zhang (Zhang Jie), or Wei Chen, the chance to show all their talent.

Lately, another reallity show, The Voice of China, that has got millions of viewers, has given another generation of new superstars, being Momo Wu (Wu Mochou), Jike Junyi or Demon Lee (Li Daimo), some examples.

Below, some artists that could represent China in the ABU TV Song Festival: Faye Wong, Na Ying, Sun Nan, Li Yuchun, Bibi Zhou, Jane Zhang, Wei Chen, Momo Wu and Jason Zhang

China in the ABU TV Song Festival.

As a member of the ABU, Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, CCTV has been taking part from 2012, in every editon of the ABU TV Song Festival.

The entries sent by China vary from the ethnic tunes, the up tempo pop song and ballads.

2012: Cao Fujia - Qian gua.

2013: Splendid seven - Ai rang women zai yiqi.

2014: Bibi Zhou - I miss you missing me.

Venues

China has got many venues that could host the ABU TV Song Festival or the ABU Radio Song Festival.

The Beijing Centre of Performing Arts is one of the newest and biggest music halls in China, with a max capacity of more than 2000 seats, this concert hall has been the host place for many cultural and musical events. It could also be a perfect host place of the ABU TV Song Festival.

The Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Centre would also be a perfect venue for the ABU TV Song Festival.