A bar chart showing the gross box office sales of domestic and imported films in China, annually from 2012 to 2021. In 2012, domestic sales were $1.5 billion dollars and imported were also $1.5 billion. Films saw a steady increase until 2018, when domestic films were at $5 billion and imported were at $4 billion. In 2020, there was a sharp decrease with $3 billion sales of domestic films and less than $1 billion in imported films. There was then an increase in 2021, with slightly over $6 billion sold in domestic films and slightly less than $1 billion in imported films.