《话说长江》和《再说长江》是中国电视纪录片史上的两部以长江为题材的作品。《话说长江》的成功在于第一次将中国的母亲河完整地展现在国人的面前。而《再说长江》的成功则在于它将中国20年的巨大变化和辉煌成就展现给全中国人民,乃至全世界人民。《话说长江》是在说长江,看长江,是在风光及历史、文化的范畴内展现长江,《再说长江》是从对长江的说与看,扩展到了思考,并开阔到了生态、人文、发展等多个领域。创作者让观众在影像中见证了改革开放给中国社会带来的巨大变化,见证了一个民族在时代变迁中被赋予的精神与价值,体现了纪录片反映社会变革的能力与方式。
Story of the Yangtze River and Rediscovering the Yangtze River are two works on the subject of the Yangtze River in the history of Chinese television documentary. The success of Story of the Yangtze River lies in first perfectly showing China's mother river to Chinese. And the success of Rediscovering the Yangtze River is presenting China's 20 - year great changes and brilliant achievements to all Chinese, even all people around the world. Story of the Yangtze River introduces the Yangtze River within the scope of scenery, history and culture. While Rediscovering the Yangtze River lays emphasis on thinking, and extends the subject of the Yangtze River to ecology, humanity, development and other fields. Their creators let the audience witness the great changes brought by the reform and opening up in the images, and let them feel the spirit and value given to a nation by changing times.