China s box office revenue during the week-long Spring Festival holiday ending on Wednesday hit a record high of 7.8 billion yuan (1.2 billion U.S. dollars), beating the same holiday in the previous years.
With a 32-percent jump from 5.9 billion yuan during the 2019 holiday, the figure heralds a bullish start to the Year of the Ox for China s movie market, one of the world s largest that last year generated 20 billion yuan despite the pandemic, outshining any other single market.
The latest gains from the holiday, usually a lucrative movie season in China, further the market s robust growth in 2021 that started with record-high New Year s Day earnings, bringing its yearly total to 11.5 billion yuan, according to data from the China Film Administration.
2021-02-18 09:40:09 GMT2021-02-18 17:40:09(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writer Zhang Yunlong
BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) China s box office revenue during the week-long Spring Festival holiday ending on Wednesday hit a record high of 7.8 billion yuan (1.2 billion U.S. dollars), beating the same holiday in the previous years.
With a 32-percent jump from 5.9 billion yuan during the 2019 holiday, the figure heralds a bullish start to the Year of the Ox for China s movie market, one of the world s largest that last year generated 20 billion yuan despite the pandemic, outshining any other single market.
The latest gains from the holiday, usually a lucrative movie season in China, further the market s robust growth in 2021 that started with record-high New Year s Day earnings, bringing its yearly total to 11.5 billion yuan, according to data from the China Film Administration.