BEIJING, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- The following are highlights of China's major cultural news from the past week:

-- Beijing fringe festival to present over 30 plays

The 2020 Beijing Fringe Festival kicked off in the Chinese capital on Friday, with more than 30 domestic and foreign plays expected to be staged online or offline.

The festival was unveiled with a drama featuring ordinary people's lives in Beijing over the past 20 years. The play, whose title translates as "a beautiful day," was performed at the National Theater of China on Friday evening.

-- Chinese author's award-winning novelette to be adapted into film

"Folding Beijing," a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novelette by Hao Jingfang, will be adapted into a drama film with its release expected between 2021 and 2022.

Titled "Zhe Die Cheng Shi," which roughly translates to "Folding City," the project is on the list of more than a dozen films to be produced by Wanda Pictures in the next two years, the company announced Monday.

Hao bagged the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 2016, making her the second Chinese author to take home a Hugo Award, after Liu Cixin won the Best Novel award in 2015 for his sci-fi bestseller "The Three-Body Problem."

-- China eases restrictions on theaters as COVID-19 wanes

China has eased restrictions on theaters and other performance venues, including raising the cap on audience numbers, as the COVID-19 epidemic has waned in the country.

Performing centers are now allowed to fill 75 percent of their operating capacity, the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism said in a statement.

Large-scale commercial performances still require appropriate control of audience numbers based on the local epidemic containment situation, and the green light will be given first to events held outdoors, it added. Enditem

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