Hai Pingmian: Movie box office "warms up" and China's economy "lives up"
Long-term strict epidemic prevention has not been relaxed, helping China's New Year's Day movie box office to set a new record.
According to the latest data released by the National Film Bureau on the 4th, China’s box office reached 601 million yuan on New Year’s Day, a record high in the past 10 years.
Looking back to the spring of 2020, in order to curb the new crown epidemic, China took extremely strict control measures. Indoor entertainment venues, including movie theaters, were closed for nearly half a year.
Bloomberg estimates that in six months, the Chinese film industry market has shrunk by nearly two-thirds.
However, thanks to strict prevention and control measures, China took the lead in controlling the epidemic and resuming work and production.
After six months of long wait, theaters reopened to take customers, and the Chinese film industry ushered in a rebounding recovery.
In October 2020, China's box office surpassed North America for the first time, becoming the world's number one.
The South China Morning Post reported on January 1, 2021 that China’s box office reached US$3 billion in 2020, surpassing the US’s US$2 billion box office performance and becoming the world’s largest box office market.
After comparing the data for the whole year, Russia Today (RT) pointed out: "The gap between China and the United States in the box office of nearly $1 billion is not unexpected. China's rapid economic recovery has left the United States far behind as early as October. "Deadline, a well-known American entertainment website, concluded after interviewing many industry insiders: "In 2021, Chinese film box office will maintain the trend of leading the global film industry."
The lively movie theaters and the "warming up" of the movie box office are also clear signals that China's economic recovery is on a solid footing.
As foreign media lamented, "China is returning to a near-normal state at an astonishing speed."
French "Le Figaro" newspaper reported that when other big countries encounter economic recession in 2020, China's economy is constantly rebounding.
Various statistics show China's resistance and vitality every week.
Bloomberg mentioned in its report on China’s top box office on January 2: “Thanks to the strict control of the epidemic, while Europe and the United States are still fighting the virus, China, the world’s second largest economy, is already on the path of recovery. "
Planning/Niu Ning
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Copywriter/Lu Ningyuan
Translation / Ren Tianze
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