China's 2025 summer box office hits 8 billion yuan

China's box office revenue for this year's summer movie season, spanning from June 1 to Aug. 31, had surpassed eight billion yuan (about 1.1 billion U.S. dollars) as of Saturday morning, with "Dead To Rights", a film on Nanjing Massacre, taking the lead, according to data from online ticketing platforms.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. To commemorate this historic milestone, a series of films, plays, musical works, dances, and art exhibitions themed around remembering history and honoring the spirit of the Anti-Japanese War are being released.

Among them, the film "Dead To Rights" has grossed over two billion yuan at the box office. "Dongji Rescue," premiered on Friday, earned 69.7 million yuan on its opening day. Meanwhile, "Mountains and Rivers Bearing Witness" and "731" are set to be released on August 15 and September 18, respectively.

The summer moviegoing period is the longest single screening season on the Chinese mainland.

China's outstanding aggregate social financing -- the total amount of financing to the real economy -- reached 442.12 trillion yuan (about 63.4 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of 2025, up 8.3 percent year on year, central bank data showed on Thursday.

The country's aggregate social financing stood at 35.6 trillion yuan (about 5.1 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2025, up by 3.34 trillion yuan (about 479 billion U.S. dollars) from the year 2024, said the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank.

According to the data, the M2, a broad measure of money supply that covers cash in circulation and all deposits, increased 8.5 percent year on year to 340.29 trillion yuan (about 48.8 trillion U.S. dollars) as of the end of December.

In addition, outstanding yuan loans stood at 271.91 trillion yuan (about 39 trillion U.S. dollars) at the end of 2025, up 6.4 percent year on year.