CCTV News, Beijing, May 4 (Reporter Feng Shuo) According to the Voice of China’s “National News Network” report by China Central Radio and Television, the latest statistics show that as of the evening of May 3, the total number of Chinese movies The box office has exceeded 1.18 billion yuan and is showing a continued upward trend.

　　This year’s "May 1st" more than ten films competed on the same stage, and the overall market popularity was high. The number of films not only surpassed this year's Spring Festival and Qingming files, but also set a new high in the past.

On the first day of the "51st Gear", it won over 440 million yuan in the box office. Although it is not as good as the market score of over 600 million yuan in 2019, if only the total box office of domestic films during the statistical period is calculated, it has created the best record in history.

　　In a cinema in Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, many citizens came to watch the movie.

The director of the theater, Xue Dong, said that the peak of viewing movies appeared on May 1.

"The day of May 1st was a peak movie viewing. The box office mainly focused on the three films "Above the Cliff", "Secret Visitor" and "Your Wedding."

　　From the perspective of the box office over the years, although the "May 1st stall" is not as popular as the National Day stalls and summer stalls, it can be regarded as a large stall in the small stalls. The total box office in 2018 and 2019 is 1 billion to 1.5 billion. level.

　　The industry predicts that this year’s "May 1st gear" may become the fifth largest stage after the Spring Festival, Summer Holiday, National Day, and New Year’s Day.

In 2021, the five-day total box office scale of the "51st Gear" is expected to be no less than 1.8 billion yuan.

Fu Ruoqing, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of China Film Group, analyzed: "To move from a film country to a film country, the core is nothing more than two points: the first is to create more original works that the people like to see and have both social influence and audience satisfaction; It is to improve the development of Chinese films in a refined and high-quality manner, including the technological content."