Adopted a global perspective, "Silk Road Delicacies - Rice: Unearthed" consists of three 52-minute episodes with rice as an entry point to show how China's rice cultivation techniques, eating habits and profound culture have a far-reaching impact on those of Southeast Asia and the Middle East. This program invites internationally renowned chefs to travel from China to Thailand, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries to explore the local rice history and presence today, discover how traditional Chinese cuisine integrates and adopts to local culinary culture, and showcases the integration and mutual influence of food, culture and social development among countries along the Silk Road.

"Introduction to the Crew - Production supervisor: JING Shuiqing Mr. JING is the chief editor of China Intercontinental Communication Center (CICC). Since 1995, he has devoted himself to the creation of TV documentaries, and directed dozens of TV documentary works. Now, he is a Golden Bridge Award-winning director who has produced Golden Bridge Award-winning documentaries. Apart from his personal achievements, he has also helped the CICC to start making jointly-produced TV documentaries together with partners from across the globe, and established a competent production team for this business. Thanks to the effort of him and his outstanding team, a batch of high-quality jointly-produced TV documentaries about today's China have been created and broadcasted, such as China: Time of Xi, China from Above, and Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth; and long-term, collaborative business relationships have been established between the CICC and a variety of TV production companies and broadcasting media in several dozen countries. To promote the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Mr. JING and his team have initiated the "Belt & Road" Media Cooperation Union, assisting countries and regions participating in the BRI to broadcast USilk programs. Chief producer: LI Mian Ms. LI is the head of the CICC's International Media Relations Center. She has received high-quality education in the Chinese language and literature at the Minzu University of China, and acquired a PRC government-recognized professional title of second-grade director. Since 1995, she has been engaged in creating and distributing film and television works for foreign publicity purposes, successively working as a director, an anchor, and a producer. Now, she is mainly in charge of the CICC's international media cooperation programs and managing the database of the CICC's film and television works. Apart from that, she also works with the CICC's trusted international partners to produce documentaries about China, such as Hour China, which is jointly produced with and broadcasted through Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific, and China Revealed, which is jointly produced with and aired through the National Geographic Channel (NGC), and participates in USilk programs which are broadcasted by 25 major TV channels from 25 countries involved in the BRI. The most representative works of Ms. LI include The Chinese Hajj, The Yongding River, Back to the Village, Tracing Heritage, Silk Road Delicacies - Rice: Unearthed, etc. Producer: LIU Wei Ms. LIU is the head of the CICC's Global Publicity Department. She is now entrusted with the task of maintaining and building strong partnerships with various media, and that of promoting the CICC and facilitating its international cooperation. Her first job in the CICC was co-producing documentaries with the CICC's international partners, and before she joined the CICC, she was the executive editor of the International Channel Shanghai (ICS), and he also directed documentaries and worked as a journalist for the channel. She is responsible for the production of the following programs: an entertaining documentary program named In China: Mission SOJOURNey, a daily and weekly talk show named Culture Matters, and documentary series Silk Road Delicacies - Rice: Unearthed, Kissinger and China, World Expo: My Neighbor China Pavilion, What Foreign Scholars See of China, Foreign Employees in China, and China's Shindlers. Chief director: Kabir Bhatia Mr. Bhatia is a Malaysian-born filmmaker and director with over 26 years of experience in the entertainment industry. He is most known for his action movies Sangkar (2019, a film based on the life story of a cocky MMA fighter) and Pulang (2018, an original story film produced by Netflix), his Anak Merdeka (2017, TV Mini-Series chronicles the lives of three friends from the time Malaysia struggled for its independence), and his Jason Down Under (2013, TV episodes about adventuring in Australia). "