The following are not prohibited in films:
1. Violations against the fundamental principle of the Constitution;
2. Threats against the national unification and the integrity of the (national) sovereignty and (national) territory.
3. Leaking of national secrets, violation against the national security and harming the national honors and national interests.
4. Inciting ethic hatred and ethic discrimination, harming ethnic solidarity of ethic groups, and volition of ethic customs and traditions;
5. Volition of the national policies on religions and preaching cult believes and superstitions;
6. Disturbing social orders and harming the social stability;
7. Promoting obseneness, gambling and violence and abetting crimes;
8. Humiliating or slandering other individuals and violating legal rights and interests of other individuals;
9. Harming social morality and playing down good national cultural heritages;
10. Others which prohibited by relevant national laws and regulations.
The following must be deleted or altered:
1. Misinterpretation of Chinese cultural and Chinese history, severely deviating the historical facts, misinterpretation of other countries?histories; disrespecting other countries?cultures, customs and traditions; dispraising revolutionary leaders, heroes and important historical figures; falsifying famous Chinese and foreign literature works and the portraying of important figures of the literature works;
2. Maliciously dispraising the image of the People? Liberation Army, the Armed Police, the police and the justice entities;
3. Contents of obseneness, pornography and bad-tastes, depicting scenes of prurience, sexual violations, prostitution, solicitation, sexual activities, sexual perversion, homosexuality, masturbation, etc.; and the sexual organs and other parts of men and women; contents of indecent and bad-tasting dialogues, songs, background music and sound effects;
4. Contents of murders, violence, horrors, ghosts and demons, supernaturalism, etc; value orientations confusing the real and the fake, the innocent and the evil, and the beautiful and the ugly; confusing the basic natures of the righteous and the non-righteous; deliberately depicting the terror of criminal activities, depicting the details of criminal actives, exposing special techniques of criminal investigations; plots with murders, bloodiness, violence, drug-taking, gambling (etc.), which are strongly stimulating; plots of torturing of POWs, torturing criminals, suspects, etc. to extort confessions; shots, dialogues, background music or sound effects, which are overly horrifying;
5. Preaching negative and decadent philosophies, opinions of the world and values; deliberately glamorizing and exaggerating the ignorance and backward development of various ethic groups or the dark side of the society;
6. Preaching religious extremism, inciting the tension and conflict between religions, religious sects as well as religious believers and non-religious believers, which harm the feelings of the public;
7. Preaching destroying the environment, torturing of animals, poaching and eating nationally protected animals;
8. Overly depicting alcoholism, tobacco smoking and other bad habits;
9. Violating of the principles of relevant law and regulations.
