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(Yicai Global) Oct. 20 -- China now has 490,00 film screens, ranking it first in the world, Zhang Hongsen, Deputy Director General of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television announced at a conference of the 19th Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress.
Cinemas nationwide welcomed an audience of 1.37 billion last year, and the figure is set to keep rising this year, Zhang also explained, and box office will reach as high as CNY55 billion.