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[Anonymous]

Did you guys know that China allows imports of only 20 foreign films annually for showing in cinemas? I wonder who and how they decide what these 20 films are?

It's amazing that Chinese authorities have ordered cinemas to stop showing Avatar.
I found this article about this entitled: "Avatar scares China, film's 2-d version blocked"
They only banned the 2-d version, not the 3-d version.

The website is: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/avatar-scares-china-films-2d-version-blocked/108890-8.html

Some highlights to the artivle:
Avatar took about 300 million yuan ($40 million) at the box office in its first eight days after its release in China on January 4, the official China Daily quoted the China Film Group as saying.

Many commentators in China found a political resonance in the film's story of the Na'vi's battle to protect their land and culture from outsiders, comparing them to Chinese citizens fighting to protect their property from the government and developers.

"Somehow, the film struck a chord with Chinese audiences and created nothing less than a social phenomenon," commentator Huang Hung wrote in China Daily on Tuesday.

"Why? All the forced removal of old neighbourhoods in China makes us the only earthlings today who can really feel the pain of the Na'vi," she said.

"For audiences in other countries, such brutal eviction is something outside their imagining. It could only take place on another planet or in China," popular blogger Han Han wrote of Avatar.