In the market for Asian TV dramas, the occupational drama genre is flourishing. As an important realist genre, occupational dramas satisfy the audience's desire to learn about different industries. After a long period of localized exploration, Chinese occupational dramas have become a new trend in the film and television market.

The duty of the film was to express the national identity and safeguard national interests. The film also played the role of educating the public and guiding the public to identify with the nation-state.

However, the cooperation between inheritors and designers could also be a clash between two different value systems and cultures. Due to the inherent deficiency of the knowledge system of inheritors, designers are often dominant in the design process, leaving inheritors at the risk of being marginalized.

In fact, the Monkey King, the fighting hero, has most often been the center of adaptations. A series of works such as Monkey Subdues the White-Bone Demon not only won international awards, but expanded the influence of Chinese films. Authors of adaptations at that time conveyed well-integrated mainstream values of the period.