The Third Pole has been prepared since the beginning of 2013. As of July 2014, six research teams and four production teams have been dispatched to shoot the film for 500 days in total, covering more than 60 secret places on the Tibetan Plateau, including Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, etc. It is the most expensive Tibet related documentary film to date. During filming, "The Third Pole" set many "top" in China and even in the world: China's first 4K ultra-high definition large-scale documentary; The world's first large-scale documentary showing the mystery of the third pole (Qinghai Tibet Plateau) people and nature getting along; The world's most comprehensive natural and human image survey of Tibet; It was the first time to shoot the ice submersible in the largest lake over 5000 meters above the earth; It was the first time to shoot in the air at the 200m cliff on the bank of the Yarlung Zangbo River; The first "HD record" of the animal ecological chain in Qiangtang no man's land; It has shot more than 50000 kilometers of documentary films about the Qinghai Tibet Plateau; Shooting more than 1000 hours of 4K ultra-high definition material, it is the largest documentary film about the Qinghai Tibet Plateau with the largest amount of 4K material so far