Editor’s Note: The 2023 Beijing Culture Forum, the second of its kind, will kick off in the Chinese capital on September 14. The two-day event focuses on advancing fine culture and promoting exchanges and will see a main forum, five sub-forums, and several related cultural activities. GDToday is presenting a series of interviews with cultural celebrities to give you a glimpse of the upcoming forum and cultural development in China.
Yu Dong, Founder, Chairman, and General Manager of Bona Film Group, said that China’s annual capability of producing feature films has steadily risen to the second place in the world over the last decade.
Yu pointed out that over the past ten years, China’s box offices in the cinema market have seen a rapid growth. “In 2019, we had hit a box office of RMB 64.2 billion, securing our position as the world’s second largest film market. Our audience, movie attendance, has surpassed the North America (region). In 2019, the total number reached 1.73 billion, No.1 in the world.”
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