CHINA DAILY | HONG KONG EDITION Monday, September 21, 2020 | 17 LIFE Cinemas to raise cap on Natural prosperity moviegoers A green approach pays dividends as residents adopt a healthier lifestyle, Xu Haoyu reports. Movie theaters in China will raise their seating-capacity cap from the current 50 percent to 75 percent of maximum capacity as a mark of further recovery of the world’s second-largest box-office market amid the COVID-19 pan- demic. The new cap will take effect on Sept 25, according to the lat- est version of a guideline for movie theaters to resume busi- ness while putting in place epi- demic-control measures issued by the China Film Distribution and Exhibition Association on Sept 15. The move comes as China’s box-office revenue hit 5 billion yuan (over $730 million) by Sept 14, since theaters reopened on July 20 after being closed for months due to COVID-19. It has been hailed as a boost for the upcoming National Day holiday box-office market. The seven-day National Day holiday starting from Oct 1 ucun village in Anji county, proved a lucrative season last Zhejiang province, is locat- year, contributing 5 billion ed at the northern slope of yuan to China’s annual box Tianmu Mountain. In the office, which exceeded 64 bil- 1970sY and 1980s, it was the site of a lion yuan. limestone mine that contributed On the long list of movies set to more than 3 million yuan hit theaters during the holiday ($420,000) to the village every year, this year are the Chinese comedy, making over 200 villagers wealthy. My People, My Homeland, and However, mud was flowing into the long-awaited animated film, the river, while dust and sand con- Legend of Deification. taminated the air. People had to Much like the blockbuster shut and seal their windows, and My People, My Country that even the tenacious bamboo shoots debuted on Oct 1, 2019, the no longer grew. upcoming My People, My Home- On Aug 15, 2005, President land has adopted collective cre- Xi Jinping, then Party secretary ation — one film contains of Zhejiang province, brought multiple stories by different about the concept of “lucid waters directors. and lush mountains are invaluable My People, My Homeland assets” during an inspection of comprises five stories. Zhang Yucun. He also praised the decision Yimou, one of China’s best- of the village to shut down its mine known filmmakers, serves as the and cement plant to protect the producer, and veteran Ning Hao environment. is the general director. Recently, a theme exhibition was Legend of Deification, a feature held in Zhejiang Exhibition Hall in from the companies behind last Hangzhou to review the green year’s China box-office champi- development of Zhejiang over the on, Ne Zha, which grossed over 5 past 15 years. People can also see the billion yuan in China, tells the transformation Yucun has gone story of mythological figure through. Jiang Ziya. Covering an area of more than Jiang Ziya is a genius strate- 2,500 square meters, it displays vid- gist from the novel Fengshen eos, archival documents, texts, mod- Yanyi (The Investiture of the els and more than 630 photos. Gods), a Ming Dynasty (1368- With VR glasses, visitors can see 1644) book that inspired Ne Zha, the change of Yucun, following the the Chinese film about its epony- path that Xi walked through when mous hero. he revisited the village in March. one of the key curators. Bridge lying on West Lake and Baiz- Deqing county’s forestry bureau Clockwise from top: An exhibit- The guideline released on The old mine has been trans- There’s another corner favored by hangji Waterfall near Wenzhou. introduced five pairs of crested ibis ed picture featuring a landscape Tuesday also says that the formed into a park, and the old visitors: a long wooden table separat- “I feel like I walked into a cool and from Shaanxi province. It started of Jinyun county in Zhejiang’s attendance cap for a region is cement plant has been replaced by ed into six smaller ones, all equipped pleasing park,” says an elderly visitor. the project of artificial breeding and Lishui city. Visitors view displays subject to adjustment by pro- a natural landscape. Tea planta- with headphones. “People who live in big cities are the introduction of wild crested ibis- about Zhejiang’s green develop- vincial-level film authorities tions and bamboo products have A young man from the Guangxi sometimes too busy to feel nature, es. By 2019, 406 of the birds lived in ment over the past 15 years at under the guidance of local epi- been developed due to local geo- Zhuang autonomous region’s Guilin, but now nature is brought to the Deqing. the Zhejiang Exhibition Hall. demic prevention and control graphical advantages and natural who has been living in Hangzhou for exhibition hall for them,” a young Zhu Guoxian, head of Zhejiang’s Picturesque Qiandao Lake and departments. conditions. six years, captured the sounds of man says. publicity department, attended the Chunyang Highway in Moviegoers will have their A huge television screen shows nature and brought them to the exhi- As the exhibition shows, with the opening ceremony of the exhibition. Hangzhou’s Chun’an county. temperatures taken before enter- the inner world of the most symbol- bition scene: the birdsong in the pursuit of harmony between “This exhibition is a concentrated Visitors wearing VR glasses ing theaters and those without ic sight in Hangzhou, West Lake, morning, the murmur of a flowing humans and nature, and the econo- display of the achievements of Zheji- watch footage about Yucun masks or with body tempera- through livestreaming with the help river, nightingales serenading in the my and society in mind, the Earth ang province from 15 years of village’s green development tures higher than 37.3 C won’t be of robotic underwater cameras. tea garden, the wind in bamboo and will only show kindness back. unswervingly practicing scientific that Zhejiang Daily shot in June. allowed in, the document says. “People always see the surface of rain dropping from old trees. Other species’ living space also development,’’ he says. “It’s a reitera- PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY All tickets must be booked online West Lake, but it must be their first Behind the corner, some beautiful grew broader and better. At the end tion of the importance of building with real names and sold with- time to see what’s under and how sights have been reproduced of the 1950s, environmental degra- an ecological civilization.” out contact. clear the water can be in summer,” through artificial landscapes in the dation and habitat destruction says Xu Bin, director of the photog- exhibition hall to reflect the charm of caused the local extinction of the Contact the writer at XINHUA raphy department of Zhejiang Daily, Zhejiang, including the Broken crested ibis in Zhejiang. In 2008, the [email protected] What’s on Naturally figurative Violin delights ment at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Qi Baishi and Huang Binhong are 7:30 pm, Sept 25. National Center for often hailed as two great reformers the Performing Arts. No 2 West of early 20th-century Chinese art. Chang’an Avenue, Xicheng district, They played an important role in a Beijing. 010-6655-0000. movement formed to breathe new life into the creation of classical Chi- nese ink painting, when the genre Pandemic response fell by the wayside as Western art Choreographed by Li Chengxiang, Fan Bo has continued exploring an became increasingly popular among Jiang Zuhui and Wang Xixian, the abstract, conceptual approach to city dwellers. Zhejiang Art Museum, the heart of the Chinese artistic spir- ballet piece, China’s first original art for decades. His works touch on ing images of the visitors’ thermog- Beijing Fine Art Academy and Zheji- it. Meanwhile, their works deliver ballet production, premiered in the the hidden sides of people’s spiritu- raphy, while a human figure is ang Provincial Museum have come figurative vigor to address the vary- capital in 1964 and is best known in China’s National Symphony al worlds. He examines the changes projected on a pool’s surface. Peo- together to present an exhibition ing tastes of ordinary people, rather the West as the ballet that was per- Orchestra will perform under the in people’s mentalities when they ple become co-performers to com- that surveys the experimental work than agreeing with a limited popula- formed for former US president baton of conductor Yu Feng with shift among social roles. The Form- plete the work, turning the space by the two master artists. Titled Flo- tion of high-end art lovers. Richard Nixon during his historic repertories including German com- less Theater, an exhibition of Fan’s into a “formless theater”. It reso- ral Aroma in Fall, the show juxta- 9 am-5 pm, through Oct 18. Closed on visit to China in 1972. Based on a poser Johannes Brahms’ Symphony work, shows his recent pieces nates with people’s feelings of lon- poses the flower-and-bird paintings Mondays. Zhejiang Art Museum, 138 film of the same name, it tells the No 4 in E Minor and the compos- addressing reactions to COVID-19. eliness in a fast-paced era. The — a major genre of classical Chinese Nanshan Road, Hangzhou. 0571- story of a rural girl, Wu Qionghua, er’s Violin Concerto in D Major. Fan, who’s now a deputy head and power of imagination in Fan’s art — by Qi and Huang, from the 8707-8700.