A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FILM INDUSTRY IN CHINA (1979-2019)

Abstract

This paper summarizes the history of the Chinese film industry. Analyzed from 1979 to 2022. For more than 40 years, the process of China’s film industry has shown obvious stage characteristics. Today, China is also transforming from a big film country to a film powerhouse. The Chinese film industry has achieved world-renowned development since 1979. Especially after entering the 21st century, the cultural industry was affirmed by the official document of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in 2000. After China entered the WTO in 2001, it gradually connected with the international market, and the Chinese film industry entered the fast track of development. In 2003, when China began to implement the film industrialization reform, the total box office of the national film was only 1 billion yuan. In 2019, the total box office of Chinese films was 64.266 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%; the total box office of domestic films was 41.175 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.65%, accounting for 64.07% of the market; the number of moviegoers in urban theaters was 1.727 billion. In 2019, 9,708 new screens were added, and the total number of screens nationwide reached 69,787. This writing was during the Covid-19 period. The purpose of the researcher is to better help Chinese films to make breakthroughs and develop in the face of the adversity of the epidemic through analysis and summary.