Beijing will set up at least 1,500 digital film screens by 2010
in a bid to reduce the prices of film tickets, said the Municipal
Bureau of Culture on Monday.
"The government has already begun to build community-based
cinemas and projection rooms to lower ticket prices," an official
with the bureau said.
At present there are only 151 film screens at all the cinemas in
Beijing, one screen for every 100,000 Beijingers. With 1,500 more
screens, the prices of film tickets are expected to reduce, the
official said.
At US$10, possibly more than many resident's daily income,
ticket prices in Beijing are often criticized for being too
high.
Beijing Vice-Mayor Sun Anmin said government authorities have
built a number of cinemas in communities and offered consumers
low-price tickets.
(Xinhua News Agency January 10, 2006)
