Experts have insisted that this is just a ploy to try and paper over the cracks during what’s obviously a downturn, especially because theaters, distributors, producers and other stakeholders in films don’t consider this money.
The Chinese state media has been hard at working putting a spin on these numbers, though.
In order to beef them up, these regulators have sneakily been adding the service fees charged by online companies into their box-office revenue.
If you do take this amount into consideration, then China’s box office has grown 10.5% in the first six months of 2017.