# "The Carbon Pursuit of Happiness" Premieres October 10: A New Chapter for In-Depth Dialogue on Health and Humanity

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- Published: 2026-10-09T11:30:00+07:00
- Author: Media OutReach

BEIJING, CHINA – [Media OutReach Newswire](https://www.media-outreach.com/) – 9 
October 2026 – “The Carbon Pursuit of Happiness” is co-produced by Phoenix Media
Group, Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, and Guangzhou Baiyunshan Pharmaceutical, and will
officially premiere on October 10. Using human health and happiness in the age of
artificial intelligence as its starting point, the program blends scientific evidence,
cultural wisdom and humanistic reflection. Through immersive field experiences and
in-depth conversations among a Phoenix TV host, leading experts in Traditional Chinese
Medicine (TCM) and Western medicine, and guests from diverse disciplines, it explores
the fundamental questions facing carbon-based life in an era of rapid technological
change.

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 At its core, “The Carbon Pursuit of Happiness” is a 12-episode documentary conversation
series, with each episode running for 28 minutes. Led by Phoenix TV host Tian Chuan,
the traveling team includes leading experts in TCM and Western medicine, as well
as influential voices from across cultures. Filmed in China and overseas, the series
combines immersive field experiences, in-depth conversations and clashes of views
around 12 propositions of carbon-based life shared by all humanity: diet, breath,
sleep, rhythms, fertility, childhood, emotions, work, immunity, aging, technology,
and the future.

 The series is tailor-made for its 12 themes, precisely matching each with ideal
guests and carefully selecting unique locations and experiential activities, taking
the traveling team deep into culturally rich sites in China and overseas in search
of essential answers about health and happiness.

 In the Diet episode, guests share chenpi tea—an infusion made from aged tangerine
peel—at the Museum of Chenliji Traditional Chinese Medicines while discussing the
Chinese idea that “Food and medicine share the same origin.” At Wudang Mountain 
in Hubei province of China, the Breath episode considers how, with each breath, 
life resonates in harmony with heaven and earth. In the Sleep episode, the team 
moves through the late-night lights of Seoul, South Korea, to discuss the sleep 
dilemmas of modern society. In China’s capital Beijing, where past and present converge,
the episode on Rhythms revisits how earlier generations observed the heavens, set
the calendar and lived in accordance with nature. In other episodes, guests express
their own views: emotion is discussed amid the slower pace of Thailand, childhood
in multicultural Malaysia, and immunity in Bomi, Nyingchi of China’s Xizang Autonomous
Region, where the team travels over mountains and rivers to reflect in nature on
the resilience of life and the limits of human immunity. In Shenzhen, Guangdong 
province of China—a global test bed for advanced technology—the conversation turns
towards a core question: how can carbon-based life and silicon-based intelligence
coexist?

 Tian Chuan, the host of “The Carbon Pursuit of Happiness” and the series’s “observer
of carbon-based life,” brings insight, warmth and an independent point of view. 
With acute empathy, questions infused with human warmth, and a delicate, natural
yet poised manner of expression, she leads the traveling team across cultural sites
at home and abroad, offering a warm response to the defining questions of our time
through vibrant dialogue.

 The series brings together leading figures in TCM and Western medicine, alongside
prominent creators and influencers from a range of fields. It also introduces “A-
Kang,” a silicon-based AI agent trained on a medical foundation model. Joining the
conversations in real time, A-Kang offers reference opinions with big-data value
on health and well-being for the happiness of carbon-based humanity. Bringing AI
together with experts, scholars and cultural observers in the same space, the series
creates a vivid scene of dialogue between TCM and Western medicine, guests from 
China and abroad, and carbon-based and silicon-based intelligence.

 The host and guests draw on their own experiences to offer insights rich in human
warmth and cultural depth. Discussing diet, Canadian food blogger and international
food culture advocate David Klinck, who has lived in China for more than 20 years,
observes: “Food is more than a form of culture; it is the meaning of life.” On sleep,
former stand-up comedian Siwen, who has dealt with chronic insomnia, lays bare a
common psychological predicament of modern people: “There is a kind of anxiety that
is about anxiety itself—the harder you try to sleep, the less you can.”

 Reflecting on childhood and the influence of the family of origin, Malaysian TCM
practitioner Dr. Low Minghan offers warm encouragement: whether good or difficult,
childhood remains part of our lives; what matters is living each day well in the
present. In discussing natural rhythms, Qi Rui, Director of the Beijing Ancient 
Observatory and a science communicator in astronomy, concludes: “In the unity of
humanity and nature, heaven comes first, followed by human beings. Living in harmonious
resonance with heaven and earth is the ultimate way of life.”

 Together, the 12 conversations reinterpret traditional Chinese approaches to health
for contemporary life, explore shared health questions across cultures, and return
to an essential question: what does it mean for people to live in health and happiness?

 Guangzhou Pharmaceutical is a Fortune Global 500 industry powerhouse with a rich
heritage, revitalizing Eastern wisdom through technological innovation. Phoenix 
Media Group, the largest overseas Chinese-language cultural and media group, reaches
an audience of more than 2 billion people worldwide. Through “The Carbon Pursuit
of Happiness” as their platform for collaboration, the two groups join forces as
industry leaders, bringing Eastern health wisdom into deeper dialogue with modern
science and technology, seeking answers through dialogue and embracing happiness
through health.

 The 12-episode documentary conversation series “The Carbon Pursuit of Happiness”
will premiere across Phoenix TV’s omnimedia platforms on October 10, 2026, with 
two episodes airing back-to-back every Saturday at 22:00. Alongside the main feature,
a diverse array of derivative content—including long-form video podcasts, short 
videos series, and themed live streams—will be rolled out progressively. With a 
global outlook, humanistic depth, and a youthful, internet-savvy tone, the program
aims to engage audiences around the world.

 Looking to the world while returning to the essence of life, the program explores
the path to health and happiness for carbon-based life at the meeting point of scientific
inquiry and humanistic care.

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