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It is pent-up demand that caused the ticket sales to skyrocket. A few years back, some movies have inflated ticket sales to create buzz but a crackdown by the Chinese government has ended the practice. It is not really a profitable and wise practice to begin with unless you are Hong Kong crime syndicates such as the triad who wanted to launder their monies in the 90s.
Deteriorating local government finances and concerns about mounting public debts are likely to result in China gradually curbing local government infrastructure projects this year, analysts said, although the top five approved last year are still set to cost close to 850 billion yuan (US$131.7 billion).
rose to 51.9 trillion yuan (US$8 trillion) in 2020, an increase of 2.9 per cent compared to the previous year, but at the same time, its overall debt level also rose to 270.1 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) from 246.5 per cent in 2019.
“Stabilising investment is the key to stabilising economic growth, and the growth of local government debt is critical to infrastructure investment,” said the National Institution for Finance & Development (NFID), a government-linked think tank, who released the data about China’s debt level.
“Infrastructure investment for the whole year of 2020 increased by 3.41 percentage points more than the growth rate of nominal GDP, but its stimulus effect was limited compared to the scale of debt expansion. The increase in debt growth and the slowdown in economic growth have jointly raised the level of leverage.”
Growing pressure on local government finances are among the reasons that the growth of infrastructure investment could slow further, with analysts expecting Beijing to reduce the limit for local authorities to issue special purpose bonds to fund projects.
were introduced by the central government in 2015 to fund infrastructure and public welfare projects, effectively offering an off-budget source of financing for local governments. Typically, such bonds are used to finance infrastructure projects to be paid off with cash flow from the completed project.
China has not yet announced whether it will front-load its local government bond quota this year, as it has for the last two years, to accelerate infrastructure investment.
Local governments in China sold a total of 3.6 trillion yuan (US$558 billion) worth of special purpose bonds last year, against a quota of 3.75 trillion yuan, with Fitch Ratings expecting the remaining quota to be carried over into 2021.
“The special bond quota for 2021 is yet to be announced, unlike the practice adopted in 2019 and 2020, where the quota was front-loaded in the previous year to maintain investment activity. We think this may suggest a revised policy stance towards a lower reliance on special bonds to support infrastructure investment so as to ease financial pressure on the government’s fund account,” Fitch said in a research report last week.
Last year, to drum up growth by boosting investment spending on infrastructure projects, with railway projects being the biggest ticket items, based on new large scale infrastructure projects approved last year by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s state planning agency.
Investment in the top 15 projects is projected to be 1.21 trillion yuan, with two adjusted underground railway plans for Shenzhen and Fuzhou set to cost 86.49 billion yuan and 16.83 billion yuan, respectively.
However, not all provinces will be able afford to move ahead with planned infrastructure projects this year due to their
and so are likely to see their overall fixed asset investment decline, according to a research report by Zhongtai Securities’ fixed income team published on Monday.
“We believe that the growth rate of fixed asset investment can reflect the debt pressure of a region to a certain extent and its future economic growth prospects. For regions where the growth rate [of fixed asset investment] has fallen sharply, one should be cautious when it comes to choosing their debt for investment,” said Zhongtai Securities.
Fixed asset investment in Hubei, the initial epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak last year, recorded the deepest plunge among China’s provinces in 2020, falling 18.8 per cent, a decrease of 29.4 per cent compared with 2019.
1. Greater Bay Area transport networks (US$73.5 billion)
With an initial price tag of 474.1 billion yuan (US$73.5 billion), the project includes a high-speed railway and urban transit network that seeks to connect Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing.
The network will cover 4,700km within Guangdong province by 2025, connecting the key cities of Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Investment in the transport network within the is aimed at ensuring two hour journey times to inland-level cities in Guangdong province, and three hour journey times from the major cities in Guangdong to capitals of neighbouring provinces.
2. Jinan urban transit network (US$17.9 billion)
The eastern Chinese province of Shandong will spend 115.4 billion yuan (US$17.9 billion) from 2020 to 2025 to complete the second phase of its underground rail network in its capital city of Jinan.
The network will cover 604.8km, connecting 11 cities in Shandong, and will offer better links with major railway stations in Jinan and with its airport.
3. Ningbo urban transit network (US$13.6 billion)
Ningbo, the port city of the industrial hub in eastern China’s Zhejiang province, has been given approval to develop the third phase of its underground rail network from 2021 to 2026, covering 413.3km.
The expected investment amount is 87.59 billion yuan (US$13.6 billion).
4. Beijing and Xiongan high-speed railway (US$13.5 billion)
The planned high-speed railway network is designed to connect the new city of Xiongan in the northern province of Hebei to the capital city of Beijing, as well as Shandong province.
The rail line will cover 552.5km, with 14 stops, with an expected investment of 87.11 billion yuan (US$13.5 billion).
Xiongan, which is located around two hours by road from Beijing, is in the early stage of becoming a new metropolis after President Xi Jinping personally picked the site in April 2017 to form a “city of the future”.
Many central government departments are set to be relocated to Xiongan to reduce congestion in Beijing, with its main railway station opening last year.
5. Chengdu-Dazhou-Wanzhou high-speed railway (US$13.2 billion)
The newly proposed high-speed railway will connect Chengdu, the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province, to the cities of Dazhou and Wanzhou to boost connections in the Yangtze River Delta area.
The network will cover 486.4km and is projected to cost 85.1 billion yuan (US$13.2 billion).
manqiangrexue
Brigadier
They could have shot the Joker in 2020 and saved a lot of money. All the riot scenes must have cost them a pretty penny but could have been free if they just took videos of the BLM riots and capital siege LOLOk joker was good
But i couldn't remember XD
definitely not true in this current age. in fact i would say china has the most transparent box-office tracking system as the numbers are updated automatically and anyone can check them.
This cant be said for other countries
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No surprise that the large cities act like giant IQ shredders that destroy birth and marriage rates. Urbanization will have to be reduced, since it is the very lifestyle of the city itself that discourages family formation.
More discussion here.
Given how much emphasis East Asian culture places on education, it is no wonder that birth rates are falling faster there than in the West.
No surprise that the large cities act like giant IQ shredders that destroy birth and marriage rates. Urbanization will have to be reduced, since it is the very lifestyle of the city itself that discourages family formation.
More discussion here.
Given how much emphasis East Asian culture places on education, it is no wonder that birth rates are falling faster there than in the West.
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Hollywood is salivating but they'll never be able to make a movie that drives Chinese to want to watch it. They just want to show their movies and expect the same box office. Some charge China fudges the figures but then they'll have pay IMAX their end per ticket. And if it's a Hollywood movie, they have to pay 25% of a lie.
Damn, I wish I can watch that movie soon. I mean these days I am starting to embrace me roots more since really there isn’t anything good on the tv nowadays