Chinese Central Television celebrated the Year of the Goat during its 2015 Chinese New Year broadcast by spotlighting is new aircraft carrier, the Liaoning.
The gala, broadcast Feb. 18 on CCTT, included comedy routines, songs and interviews between President Xi Jinping and PLA units around China. The Liaoning was featured in a music video titled “I Give My Heart to You,” Popular Science reported Monday.
Lyrics for the song included: “My motherland, my brothers and sisters, I give my heart to you,” the magazine reported.
Roughly 1,400 crew members also took part in the creative endeavor.
The CCTV New Years Gala is incredibly popular. Last year the broadcast had over 700 million viewers, Popular Science reported.
China has recently been using its new aircraft carrier to test its J-15 fighter fleet’s prowess at taking off and landing off a carrier deck, Military.com reported.
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