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Can the world's factory lose its reputation for piracy and gain one for innovation? In this episode of Witness, filmmaker Steve Nettleton looks at China's modern-day innovators and the determination that keeps them inventing - from backyard inventor Xu Ting Zhong, to Kong Weiming, the chief inventor of China's first registered innovation company Creatvow, and those who profit from the intellectual piracy trade.

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Rageh Omaar presents Witness, a half-hour daily documentary series which features short, specially commissioned or acquired films gathered from independent filmmakers.
 
Each documentary reveals the unknown lives of ordinary people, following their lives, telling their stories and portraying the challenges that confront them. Our witnesses are people in a situation or those who have observed them first hand.
 
The films cover conflict, belief, the past and the future and as well as bringing new stories to light they showcase the talents of a new breed of multi-skilled, frontline journalist. In the studio, Rageh will further explore the issues raised in the films, with expert guests on the subject matter and the filmmakers themselves.

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