China’s 2025 box office surpasses 2024’s full-year gross, with local films dominating
China’s 2025 box office has already eclipsed last year’s total, marking a major milestone for the market as the National Day holiday gets underway.
According to data from ticketing platform Maoyan, as of early Thursday afternoon, the year-to-date grosses, including presales, reached 42.5 billion yuan (about 5.98 billion U.S. dollars), surpassing the full-year haul of 2024.
Local films continue to dominate the market, accounting for nearly 90 percent of ticket sales, with all ten of the year’s top earners being domestic productions.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
