Choosing his battles

China's most-popular military TV series' producer is fighting for big changes in how the genre is presented on the small screen. Wang Kaihao reports.

He's arguably the man who brought China its answer to Band of Brothers.

When TV producer Wu Yi brought the 30-episode series Soldiers Sortie to the small screen in 2006, he had little inkling it'd become one of the Chinese mainland's most-celebrated military dramas. It's still widely acclaimed as such.