Hungarian public media to broadcast Chinese propaganda movies?

Chinese President Xi Jinping
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Csaba Káel, government commissioner in charge of the Hungarian film industry, and Mao Yu, head of the China Film Administration, have signed a comprehensive agreement on film industry cooperation between Hungary and China, Hungary’s National Film Institute (NFI) said on Friday.

The agreement aims to promote professional cooperation in the film industry and pave the way for joint productions, NFI said. It also extends to film industry training and mutual promotion of Hungarian and Chinese films, the statement added.

NFI said China was one of the world’s few film distribution markets where local productions outgross American blockbusters at the box office. China’s film industry, they said, was in its “third heyday”, adding that both countries’ governments considered the film industry a strategic sector.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and wife Chinese contemporary folk singer Peng Liyuan arrive in Budapest. Photo: Facebook/Szijjártó Péter

The statement quoted Káel as saying that Hungary was currently the number one location for film production in continental Europe, adding that Budapest’s geographical and film industry characteristics could make it “an excellent new hub” for East-West film industry relations.

Chinese wisdom compiled by the President in the Hungarian television

The delegation from the China Film Administration visited the NFI’s Film Archives and Film Laboratory as well as the institute’s studios in Fot, on the outskirts of the capital.

According to hvg.hu, Shen Haixiong, the President of the China Media Group and Dániel Papp, the CEO of MTVA, the Hungarian public media broadcaster, agreed that the Hungarian Television would broadcast documentary movies about Chinese wisdom compiled by President Xi Jinping. Furthermore, Hungarian Television will also broadcast several Chinese propaganda films, for example, about the state-supported developments in Tibet or the Chinese achievements, 444.hu wrote.

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