China's National Day box office surpasses 1.1-billion-yuan mark

By 18:08 Saturday, the total box office revenue of China's National Day holiday has surpassed the 1.1-billion-yuan (about 155 million U.S. dollars) mark, according to online platform data.

The eight-day holiday, which kicked off on Oct. 1, is typically a bustling movie-going season for consumers and a highly competitive arena for the movie theater sector in China.

Currently leading this year's National Day box office is domestic war epic "The Volunteers: Peace at Last," the finale of director Chen Kaige's "The Volunteers" trilogy. The film recreates the intertwined struggles of battlefield combat and tense diplomatic negotiation during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953).

It is followed by "Evil Unbound," a domestic production that depicts the atrocities that Japanese germ-warfare Unit 731 committed in China during World War II. The film revolves around the fates of a group of innocent victims who are imprisoned by Unit 731 and become subjects of inhumane torture experiments such as frostbite, poison gas and vivisection experiments.

"A Writer's Odyssey Ⅱ," a sequel to the 2021 fantasy-action hit, currently ranks third on the holiday chart. The film centers on a novelist's journey to tackle a dual crisis taking place in both the real world and the virtual world of his artistic creation.

China's National Day box office surpasses 1.1-billion-yuan mark

China's National Day box office surpasses 1.1-billion-yuan mark

China's National Day box office surpasses 1.1-billion-yuan mark

China's National Day box office surpasses 1.1-billion-yuan mark

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for an official visit to China through Saturday.

This visit marks the first trip to China by a Canadian Prime Minister in eight years.

When briefing on the visit of Carney, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said President Xi Jinping will meet with the Canadian prime minister to provide new strategic guidance for further improving and developing China-Canada relations.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Chairman of China's National People's Congress Standing Committee Zhao Leji will hold separate talks and meetings with the Canadian prime minister to conduct comprehensive and in-depth exchanges on bilateral relations as well as issues of mutual interest.

The spokesperson said China looks forward to taking this visit as an opportunity to enhance dialogue and communication, increase political mutual trust, expand practical cooperation, properly manage differences, address each other's concerns and consolidate the momentum of improvement in China-Canada relations to bring greater benefit for the two peoples.

Canadian PM arrives in Beijing for official visit