LOS ANGELES: Cartoon Network's popular series The Powerpuff Girls, will soon be seen on terrestrial television in China through China Central Television Station (CCTV)

The Powerpuff Girls series will be launched though CCTV's animation block Cartoon City on channels 1 and 7. The Powerpuff Girls is the first foreign animation in this animation block. The programme begins its exclusive year long run on 10 May , 2003. CCTV reaches 90 per cent of the 1.3 billion population of China. CCTV will dub and edit The Powerpuff Girls into 22-minute episodes in order to better suit the language patterns of Chinese children.

President and MD Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific Steve Marcopoto said, " We are thrilled to be taking this significant step into the Chinese market through our partnership with CCTV. It is a meaningful expansion of our overall cooperation within the PRC, With a combination of Cartoon Network's globally-popular programming and CCTV's local expertise, we hope that the Powerpuff Girls will become as well-loved in China as they are by children around the world."

The Powerpuff Girls is an original half-hour per episode animated series that follows the adventures of three super-powered sisters-Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup-who frequently ask to be excused from school so they can save the world. While preparing his concoction of sugar & spice and everything nice, Professor Utonium accidentally added a mysterious fourth ingredient, Chemical X. This fateful addition led to the creation of three sugar coated superheroes, otherwise known as The Powerpuff Girls, whose mission in life alters between fighting crime and winning at hopscotch.