Tag: Wanda

Sluggish Recovery Post COVID for Chinese Film Industry

June was a big month for the Chinese movie industry, with the glitzy Shanghai International Film Festival proclaiming a rebound for the industry post-COVID. Meanwhile, Hong Kong’s Fresh Wave International Film Festival sounded a more sobering note as organizers not-so-subtly highlighted Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censorship. The two festivals provided a perspective on a movie…


China’s Housing Companies Face Debt Ceiling in 2023

Chinese property companies that survived the debt peak in 2022 may not be able to get through 2023. Meanwhile, although a research institute says that China’s housing companies have “seen the dawn,” most private real-estate companies still fail to issue bonds. On Feb. 7, Guangzhou Times Holding Group Co. Ltd. announced that it would suspend…