[8] Unlike other international co-productions, Zhima Jie would have its own version of Big Bird, Da Niao, rather than a new full-body mascot unique to their iteration.
[10] It returned in December 2010 as Zhima Jie: Da Niao Kan Shijie (芝麻街: 大鸟看世界, Sesame Street: Big Bird Looks at the World).
[11] Like other international co-productions, Zhima Jie covered the four broad curriculum categories of Child's World (understanding the self), Family and Society, Symbolic Representation (reading and numeracy) and Cognitive Organization (classification and perception).
However, the production also added a fifth category of Aesthetics and Arts, which included coverage of Chinese calligraphy, experiencing nature, dance, and music composition.
[9] From 2014 through 2019, characters from Sesame Street and Zhima Jie guest-starred on Bai Nian La (拜年啦), broadcast every Chinese New Year (January 31, 2014 – February 5, 2019).