CCTV-17 is a Chinese

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the FTA Receiver, appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring ...

television channel, owned by

China Central Television China Central Television (CCTV) is a Chinese state- and political party-owned broadcaster controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its 50 different channels broadcast a variety of programing to more than one billion viewers in six lan ...

. It handles the

agricultural Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating Plant, plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of Sedentism, sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of Domestication, domesticated species created food ...

programmes moved from

CCTV-7 CCTV-7 is a Chinese free-to-air television channel owned by China Central Television. The channel primarily carries programming devoted to the People's Liberation Army. Prior to 1 August 2019, the channel also carried agriculture-related programm ...

after the revamp of the latter channel. This is a state-run TV channel. As such, it has been criticized for its connection to the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

. Trial broadcasts of the channel commenced on 1 August 2019, with a launch date of

23 September Events Pre-1600 *AD 38, 38 – Julia Drusilla, Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified. *1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V, Hol ...

, as part of celebrations for the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival.

Programmes

*Jujiao Sannong (, lit "Agricultural Watch") *Zhi Fu Jing (, lit "Agribusiness Today") *Keji Lian (, lit "Agritech Connect") *The Big Stage of Village () *Xiang Yue (, lit "Dating in the Countryside") *Repeats of TV series under ''Rural Theatre'' strand *Heroes Everywhere (遍地英雄)

References

{{CCTV China Central Television channels Television channels and stations established in 2019 2019 establishments in China Agricultural television stations