The Box office for the 2025 National Day holiday, including previews and presales, exceeded 200 million yuan (28.1 million U.S. dollars) as of 12:01 on Wednesday noon, or the first day of seven-day holiday, according to online data.
During the period, a selection of movies will be screened, featuring various genres such as fantasy, action, and patriotic films.
Leading the box office is the final installment of a war epic trilogy "The Volunteers: Peace at Last", crime thriller "Sound of Silence" and "A Writer's Odyssey II," a sequel to the 2021 fantasy-action.
China's 2025 box office is poised to cross a crucial milestone during the National Day holiday window, with the year-to-date cumulative gross set to overtake 2024's full-year total of 42.5 billion yuan (about 5.97 billion U.S. dollars) as holiday releases flood cinemas across the country.
The market enters the holiday frame with 2025's cumulative total already reaching approximately 42 billion yuan as of Tuesday -- just 500 million yuan shy of last year's final tally.
National Day holiday box office exceeds 200 mln yuan
The multilateral system is "under attack" amid global turmoil, President of the 80th UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock warned in her remarks on Wednesday.
In her briefing on the priorities for the resumed 80th Session of the General Assembly, the UNGA president noted that the current multilateral system does not collapse all in a sudden, but "crumbles piece by piece" in divisions, compromises, and lack of political commitment.
The president called all the UN member states to defend the UN Charter and international law and promote cross-regional cooperation.
She also urged to push forward the work of the UNGA on certain critical issues with a strong majority, rather than an absolute consensus among all member states. Such act is not a failure of multilateralism, but "an affirmation of it," she said.
The foundational principles of the institution should not be eroded by appeasement, she said, calling the member states to show courage, leadership, and responsibility at the UN's "critical make-or-break moment."
"The UN needs you. Your support, your leadership, your principle, stand, your cross-regional cooperation, if we are to preserve and modernize this institution, if we are to make it, rather than break it," she said.
UNGA President warns global multilateral system "under attack"
