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News Plus慢速英语:杭州申办2022年亚运会 国产电影票房屡破纪录
You are listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Liu Yan in Beijing.
Hangzhou, the capital city of Zhejiang Province in eastern China, has submitted its bid for the 2022 Asian Games.
The Olympic Council of Asia, the sports-governing body of the region, will decide the host city of the 2022 games in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan at its 34th congress on September 16.
If Hangzhou wins, it will be the third time that the games are held in a Chinese city, after Beijing in 1990 and Guangzhou in 2010.
Beijing was selected to host the 2022 winter Olympic Games last month
This is NEWS Plus Special English.
Record-holders in China's movie market are on edge this summer as domestic movies threaten their box office glory.
The latest numbers show domestic live-action animation "Monster Hunt" was pushing 2 billion yuan, roughly 320 million U.S. dollars, in ticket sales, just short of the 2.4 billion yuan that earned U.S. action-racer "Furious 7" the top spot in April.
When "Furious 7" achieved the record, it almost doubled the 1.3 billion of previous holder "Avatar", leaving China's movie industry in awe of Hollywood.
But seeing the earning power of homegrown films such as "Monster Hunt", which tells the story of Huba, a monster on a mission to stop all-out war, has bolstered China's movie industry.
It's not alone in obtaining ticket sales that, not too long ago, domestic movies could only dream of.
"Monkey King: Hero is Back", an animated feature film, recently dethroned "Kung Fu Panda 2" to become the highest grossing animated film in China. Another big earner, "Jian Bing Man", made more than one billion yuan, even though it is the first work of director Dong Chengpeng.
The China Film Association attributes the achievement in large part to more new moviegoers, especially in small cities, and to the increase of investment in the movie industry.
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