China's box office exceeds 4.54 bln yuan so far in 2025

China's box office revenue reached over 4.54 billion yuan (626.9 million U.S. dollars) so far in 2025, with the number of moviegoers exceeding 100 million.

According to online platform data, as of 10:43 on Thursday, a total box office revenue of 4.546 billion yuan had been made from 12.62 million screenings at an average ticket price of 45.4 yuan.

Chinese thriller "Sheep Without a Shepherd 3" currently leads 2025's viewership rankings, while six new films have been released for the 2025 Spring Festival season, which are the second episode of the Chinese myth trilogy "Creation of the Gods," "Ne Zha 2," a sequel to the 2019 animated blockbuster "Ne Zha" after five years, "Detective Chinatown 1900," the newest installment of the "Detective Chinatown" franchise that debuted in 2015, Operation Hadal, Boonie Bears: Future Reborn, the latest in the long-running animated series, and Tsui Hark's adaptation of Jin Yong's wuxia classic "The Legend of the Condor Heroes."

The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 145 pips to 6.9056 against the U.S. dollar Thursday, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System.

In China's spot foreign exchange market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 2 percent from the central parity rate each trading day.

The central parity rate of the yuan against the U.S. dollar is based on a weighted average of prices offered by market makers before the opening of the interbank market each business day.