Secret China, Series 2

S02E03 China is an industrial giant and urban powerhouse. But beyond the familiar images of skyscrapers and bustling crowds, there’s a different China. This is a land of extremes – of great natural beauty – where resourceful people have built extraordinary lives against the odds. On this journey of discovery we plunge deep into a remarkable, mysterious and hidden world. We meet farmers clinging to remote mountains, growing and preparing tea the way they have for over a 1000 years. We go ice fishing with hunters up on the Russian border, where temperatures plunge to Minus 40. We meet herdsmen on the great Asian steppes, who’ve been riding horses from as soon as they can walk. Wildly different worlds, united by a single theme – the ingenuity of people who must coax a living from the most unforgiving landscapes. Get ready to enter – Secret China.