Route of heroic endeavor

Jue Mi Shi Ming (The Confidential Missions), a 32-episode drama, has been running on China Central Television's CCTV-1 and streaming site Tencent Video since April 18, marking the first such work to shed light on the lesser-known heroes who once risked or even sacrificed their lives to evade blockades and checkpoints on the line.

Starting from Shanghai, the route went to Hong Kong, getting through the provinces of Guangdong and Fujian before reaching Ruijin, Jiangxi province, then the CPC's largest revolutionary base led by Mao Zedong.

So far, the show starring actors Zhang Tong and Ying Haoming as two station heads on the supply line, has been widely viewed and acclaimed, exemplified by its getting up to 120 million clicks on Sina Weibo, a Chinese social media platform.

"The creation of the story was first inspired by the declassified files of the Ministry of State Security," says Zhang Min, the producer." For us, it was a very meaningful project to delve into this unknown chapter of the CPC's early revolutionary history to mark the Party's 100th founding anniversary."