BEIJING, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Domestic historical film "Mao Zedong 1949" hit Chinese big screens on Friday, ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The film retraces the history of 1949 from the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee moving to Fragrant Hills in northwest Beijing in March 1949 to the founding of the PRC on Oct. 1.
It tells the stories of CPC leaders at that time, including Mao Zedong, in negotiating with the Kuomintang, directing the War of Liberation, laying out economic policies and making preparation for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the founding ceremony of a new China.
The film raked in over 4 million yuan (565,531 U.S. dollars) in presales at the Chinese mainland box office on Thursday, according to statistics released by Maoyan, a Chinese film database and ticketing platform.
