Weekly snapshot of Chinese cultural news
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BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's key cultural news from the past week:
-- Museums urged to collect, preserve mementos of COVID-19 outbreak
Museums across China were asked to collect and preserve representative mementos to record the country's battle against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic.
A circular, issued by the National Cultural Heritage Administration, pointed out target memorials include medical journals, diaries and letters written by medical workers, government documents and anti-virus equipment used on the front line as well as images and videos recording the fight.
-- Knowledge of China's cultural heritage imparted online amid epidemic
A set of online cultural heritage classes launched on Sina Weibo introduced 68 pieces of intangible cultural heritage, with those concerning martial arts and traditional crafts particularly favored by netizens.
Under the guidance of China's Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the programs, with over 1.7 billion views on Weibo, were launched by intangible cultural heritage protection associations across the country amid the coronavirus outbreak.
-- TV drama adaptation of popular Chinese novel on tomb raiders to premiere
A new TV drama adaptation of the popular Chinese novel series "Gui Chui Deng," which literally means "Ghost Blowing Lamp," is set for an April 1 online premiere.
Titled "Long Ling Mi Ku" and known as "Candle in the Tomb: The Lost Caverns" in English, the 18-episode show will be broadcast on Tencent Video with three episodes every Wednesday evening starting next week.
-- Digital approaches fuel cultural, tourism industry amid epidemic
China's cultural and tourism industry has turned to digital approaches to deflect the blow delivered by the novel coronavirus, picking up steam in its recovery and boosting fledgling businesses such as virtual tours.
With offline cultural activities and tourism affected by the epidemic, digital forms such as online music, livestreaming, cloud exhibitions, smart tourism and others based on 5G and artificial intelligence have been growing, said China Tourism Daily citing a report.
-- Chinese museum moves view, culture of traditional villages online
A national digital museum has released its second list of 211 traditional Chinese villages for online exhibition, making its digital database displaying the views and cultures of 376 villages with unique charms.
Villages from 31 provincial-level regions have been included in the digital platform, and east China's Anhui Province had the most villages on the list.
-- China's TV drama industry begins to resume operation
China's TV drama industry, which has been dormant for months due to the COVID-19 outbreak, is resuming work and production in an orderly manner.
Many major film and television program production centers have reopened their studios.
The National Radio and Television Administration will support the creation of TV series with themes of the country's fight against COVID-19 and poverty reduction this year.
-- Box office revenue of China's performance industry exceeds 20 bln yuan in 2019
China saw a total box office revenue of over 20 billion yuan (around 2.84 billion U.S. dollars) in the performance industry in 2019, up 7.29 percent year on year, said the Beijing Daily, citing data from a newly released report.
On the whole, the growth of revenue from performance markets including theaters, vocal concerts and tourism performances outpaced that of the film market in 2019, said the report on the development of the country's performance industry in 2019.
The box-office earning from theaters hit 8.4 billion yuan, making it the largest contributor to the whole box office in the industry. Enditem
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