(CFP)

Wu Ziniu, a famous Chinese movie and television director, has made a popular tribute to ce-lebrate the 110th anniversary of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's birth with a TV series titled Deng Xiaoping at a Historical Turning Point. The show has gained wide attention since premiering on China Central Television Channel 1 on August 8.

This 48-episode drama traces China's historic transformation under Deng's leadership from 1978 to 1984 when the country's reform and opening-up drive was in full swing through a creative lens. It not only puts Deng's working life into the spotlight, but also tells stories of several ordinary families in Beijing during that period.

Wu, who was born in the early 1950s in southwest China's Sichuan Province, has won several top movie and TV play awards in China. He is famed as one of the representatives of China's fifth-generation directors. Wu has expressed his hope that the audience will feel Deng's love for his family as well as his country from this TV series.