From late 1999 to 2004, Weiping Pan directed and produced the 30-episode documentary series Chinese Tea Ceremony, focusing on Chinese tea culture. Selected episodes were nominated by the China Association of Science and Educational Film and Television for participation in the 36th Tampere International Short Film Festival in Finland in 2007.

He also served as chief editor of the audiovisual album Chinese Tea Ceremony, published and distributed by Shanghai Higher Education Electronic Audio-Visual Press.

In 2005, he participated in the production of the science program series Science Around Us, which received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2006.

In January 2006, he established the National Alliance for Educational Television Production, leading the joint production of the large-scale science television series Mysteries Around Us, comprising over one thousand episodes. The series received the Special Prize in the Documentary Category at the 13th National Educational Television Program Awards in 2007. In 2009, the project was awarded the Third Prize of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, and Pan received the Nomination Award of the 7th Shanghai Public Science Award, as well as recognition as an Outstanding Individual in National Educational Television.

From October 2011 to March 2015, he served as Chief Director of the large-scale humanistic documentary series The Greatest of China. In 2012, the project was included in the key national audiovisual publishing program under China’s 12th Five-Year Plan by the General Administration of Press and Publication. In March 2014, it was designated by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television as one of the 20 major national publications supporting the study and implementation of President Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Dream” address, and received RMB 2.52 million in national publishing funding support.