The govt produced a Journey to the West Pioneer Generation Package video just because

We're wondering how they plan to top this one.

Mothership| August 01, 10:21 AM

So this week, while the rest of us were busy, the Chinese media has been buzzing about this:

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And this, pals, is something good indeed — a clip, by the government, no less, that explains the benefits of the otherwise unexplainable Pioneer Generation Package (PGP) to our elderly parents and grandparents (and perhaps some great-grandparents).

They've done some others before, and also in various dialects and languages, but none are quite as over-the-top as this one, we can say with certainty.

Why we can see pretty clearly that the government is pretty much stopping at nothing to make sure all our awesome elders know as much as there is to know about the PGP?

1. They hired award-winning filmmaker Royston Tan to direct this.

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He's the guy responsible for films so epic that they're banned, like youth gangster film "15" — he was later pressured to make 27 cuts to it before it could eventually show in his/our home country under the then-R(A) rating.

 

2. They took on famous getai personalities Wang Lei and Liu Lingling to star in the video.

For the uninitiated, these folks are the veterans of the scene, and if you're Chinese, we're pretty sure perhaps your parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents would know and love them.

Just check out their stage chemistry:

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3. It includes the following scenes:

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Liu Lingling spinning herself a web, and Wang Lei doing somersaults in the sky.

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Wang Lei floating on a cloud, and defying the laws of physics (not because of the cloud, but because the tiny paper umbrella can slow his descent).

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Further defiance of the laws of physics, because it seems the cloud can also support Liu's weight.

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Both of them using a large umbrella to defeat an entire army (which, by the way, is also floating on a cloud in the sky).

 

And what's more convincing about the effectiveness of a video than its stats, right?

It was uploaded to both YouTube and Facebook on Monday this week, and it's already chalked up more than 360,000 views on YouTube and 105,000 views on Facebook. Collectively, the video was shared from both platforms more than 3,000 times. Altogether, from elsewhere too, it's been seen more than 700,000 times.

So yes, we can safely conclude that the government is getting better at its educational videos. Good job, gahmen. KPIs have been met.

 

Top photo: Screengrab from YouTube clip.

 

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