"Chinese Cinema" redirects here. For the book, see Chinese Cinema: Culture and Politics since 1949.
Cinema of China
No. of screens
86,300 (2023)[1]
• Per capita
2.98 per 100,000 (2016)
Main distributors
China Film (32.8%) Huaxia (22.89%) Enlight (7.75%)[2]
Produced feature films (2016)[3]
Fictional
772
Animated
49
Documentary
32
Number of admissions (2016)[4]
Total
1,370,000,000
• Per capita
1[4]
Gross box office (2023)[3]
Total
CN¥54.9 billion (US$7.73 billion)
National films
58.33%
The cinema of China is the filmmaking and film industry of the Chinese mainland under the People's Republic of China, one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan.
China is the home of the largest movie and drama production complex and film studios in the world, the Oriental Movie Metropolis[5][6] and Hengdian World Studios. In 2012 the country became the second-largest market in the world by box office receipts. In 2016, the gross box office in China was CN¥45.71 billion (US$6.58 billion). China has also become a major hub of business for Hollywood studios.
In November 2016, China passed a film law banning content deemed harmful to the "dignity, honor and interests" of the People's Republic and encouraging the promotion of "socialist core values", approved by the National People's Congress Standing Committee.[7]
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^ abFrater, Patrick (31 December 2016). "China Box Office Crawls to 3% Gain in 2016". Variety. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
^"Breathtaking Photos From Inside the China Studio Luring Hollywood East". Hollywoodreporter.com. 2 November 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
^"Wanda Unveils Plans for $8 Billion 'Movie Metropolis,' Reveals Details About Film Incentives". The Hollywood Reporter.
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