BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following are highlights of China's major cultural news from the past week:

-- Sci-fi movie box office soars in China in 2019

The box office of homemade sci-fi movies in 2019 reached 7.14 billion yuan (about 1.06 billion U.S. dollars) in China, more than twice the number in 2018.

According to a report of China's sci-fi industry, made public at the China Science Fiction Convention 2020 held in Beijing, sci-fi movies' total box office last year in the Chinese market was more than 19.5 billion yuan.

-- Grand Canal-themed exhibition opens in Beijing

An exhibition on the Grand Canal, a vast waterway connecting the northern and southern parts of China, has opened at the National Museum of China in Beijing.

The exhibition showcases the excavation history, water transport management, engineering technology, and intangible cultural heritage of the Grand Canal through 170 objects as well as digital images and interactive projects.

-- French work on Confucius enters China national library

A French-language version of "An Introduction to The Analects of Confucius" entered the collection of the National Library of China and was put on display.

The book, published in 1688, was a state gift received by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his visit to France in March 2019. It is the first intact manuscript written in a foreign language during the European Enlightenment that was collected by the library. Enditem

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