Most of the data below is provided by EntGroup's China Box Office (CBO) website, with the gross in yuan.
It was above the year's highest domestic Chinese film, Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun with ¥50 million.
[28] Stanley Tong and Jackie Chan surpassed their own record with the Hong Kong action film Police Story 4: First Strike (1996), which grossed CN¥112 million in China.
[31] In 1998, Titanic (directed by James Cameron) became the all-time highest-grossing film to be released in China, with a then-unprecedented ¥360 million.
Among domestic filmmakers, Feng Xiaogang (1999, 2003, 2008), Zhang Yimou (2002, 2006, 2023), Stephen Chow (2004, 2013, 2016), Chen Kaige (2005, 2021, 2022) and Dante Lam (2018, 2021, 2022) are the most represented with three films each.