Mid-Autumn Festival Gala by CMG to present high-tech visual feast to global audience tonight.

ISLAMABAD -- The China Media Group (CMG) will be broadcasting the 2022 annual Mid-Autumn Festival during prime time on Saturday, providing a high-tech visual feast through state-of-the-art technologies and spreading the festive cheer among Chinese people across the globe.

Produced by CMG, this year's annual gala will open in Zhangjiagang, a county-level city in Suzhou City of east China's Jiangsu Province.

Through a combination of ingenuity, art and technology, the grand event will demonstrate China's cultural charm and spectacular landscapes to the audience.

The gala will be available on various China Central Television (CCTV) channels, new media platforms, radio programs, as well as overseas social platforms.

This year, the astronauts of the Shenzhou-14 crewed space mission, Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe, who are on a six-month stay in orbit, will become the first Chinese ever to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival in China's space station.

The three Chinese astronauts will record an exclusive video for the CMG gala, sending their Mid-Autumn Festival greetings to the Chinese people all around the world.

The gala, featuring a star-studded lineup, will stage an assortment of fantastic performances, including symphony, opera, dances, as well as songs, many of which adapted from Chinese classical poems.

Folk art will also be highlighted in the show demonstrating the glamor of traditional Chinese culture, with one song incorporating the element Lord Rabbit, known as Tu'er Ye, which symbolizes health and safety in the culture of ancient Beijing.

Technological effects will be another highlight of the gala. The stage...