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At a Shanghai apartment, Mr Hou, a Nationalist official, gets ready to move to Taiwan upon the imminent defeat of the KMT during the Civil War. Mrs Hou gives an ultimatum to the rest of the tenants to move out on behalf of her husband, who is the "owner" of the flat and who is now planning to sell it. From the conversations with the rest, we find out that Hou has been a Hanjian during the Sino-Japanese War and that he has since taken over the apartment by force from the old landlord, Mr Kong. The tenants, including Mr Kong, Mrs Xiao, Little Broadcast (alias Mr Xiao, played by Zhao Dan) and a schoolteacher, Mr Hua, and his wife, initially plan to band together, but circumstances force them to find other ways out. Mr Hua tries to find a place to stay at the KMT-sponsored school he is teaching in. Little Broadcast and Mrs Xiao invest in black market gold. As the situation escalates, Mr Hua gets arrested by KMT agents and his young daughter falls desperately ill.

The film follows a young boy who sets out on a mission to try and track down his long lost parents.

Early Qing Dynasty, Jin guard(the imperial guards of Ming) assassin-ed into the palace of the general Li, won the Chicken Cup back. three hundred years later, inside a temple, the lead of Jin guard He Fan is dying to protect the chicken cup from the treasure hunter David Wong, He fan died in the battle, only survived is his son He Xingyun, the treasure got into the near lake.

Bear brothers Briar and Bramble set off on an adventure with their human friend Vick to Wild Land, an amusement park where humans can turn into animals using a gene-technology bracelet.

A former boxing champion takes decides to break a few rules and train orphans from China's remote countryside in order to give them a future.

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People's Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they crossed the Yangtze River and Nanjing was liberated on April 23 which signaled the fall of the KMT regime, Chiang Kai-Shek fled to Taiwan; on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong standing on the rostrum of Tiananmen, solemnly declared the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, New China was faced with "internal and external troubles". Since the outbreak of the Korean Civil War, the U.S. military has repeatedly provoked the border between China and North Korea, and civilians have been brutally bombed. In order to maintain the hard-won peace and long-term stability for generations, in October 1950, the Chinese People's Volunteers entered North Korea, and the "Resist US Aid Korea" war kicked off.

The Qin Empire is a 2009 Chinese television series based on Sun Haohui's novel of the same Chinese title. The 51 episodes long series chronicles the rise of the Qin state in the Warring States period during the reign of Duke Xiao of Qin. It was produced in 2006 and first aired on television channels in China in December 2009.

Zhen Huan, a 17-year-old innocent introduced into the imperial court as the latest concubine of Emperor Yong Zheng. Her dreams of a new life of love and prosperity are swiftly dashed as she enters a dog-eat-dog world of treachery and corruption.

Can a hero with no combat abilities still save the empire? Wei Xiao Bao (Han Dong) is the most unlikely hero as the sly but witty son of a prostitute during the early Qing Dynasty. As he makes his way from the brothel where he was born in Yangzhou to the capital city of Beijing, he encounters all kinds of trouble and mishaps.

Should some places be off limits to the poor? The Si Ye Art Institute is an elite arts high school for the children of wealthy families whose students go on to attend the most exclusive universities. Jiang Yu Nian is one of the most popular boys at the school, but he is cold and emotionally distant after the death of his sister. The exclusive school and its privileged students are turned upside down when Lin Xing Chen, a talented art student from a poor background, is admitted. Xing Chen faces immediate bullying from the other rich students, but will Yu Nian try to protect the kindhearted new student?

Zhou Ying is sold to the powerful Shen family by her foster father, yet successfully escapes by sneaking into merchant Wu Ping’s palanquin. The Wu family agreed to take her in after witnessing her remarkable business acumen, and she ends up marrying Wu Ping. The drama will chronicle the life of the Qing Dynasty's richest female merchant, and her struggles to keep the Wu family business afloat during the last years of the Qing Dynasty. Shen Xingyi is a happy-go-lucky young sir who has never known hardship in his life. After meeting Zhou Ying, he eventually decides to change his ways and becomes a mature noble who is willing to protect his country and family from disaster. He has a seemingly unrequited love for Zhou Ying.

A young swimmer tries to stage a comeback three years after a scandal. Tang Yi Bai (Dylan Xiong) is a former champion swimmer who was wrongfully accused of doping that derailed his competitive career three years ago. He returns after a three-year hiatus to compete for the South Physical Education College alongside his best friend, Qi Rui Feng (Huang Sheng Chi), against their biggest rival, Heng Ou Yang (Pang Han Chen), of North Physical Education College. At the competition, Yi Bai meets rookie sports reporter Yun Duo (Tan Song Yun), who is assigned to cover the competition but has a fear of water due to a near-drowning incident in her past. Yi Bai also happens to rent a room in Yun Duo’s family home, and the two become good friends. Can Yun Duo encourages Yi Bai to prove his innocence in his past scandal and regain his swimming glory? “My Mr. Mermaid” is a 2017 Chinese drama series. It is based on the novel Lang Hua Yi Duo Duo by Jiu Xiao Qi.

The romance between failing student Su Yun Jin and high school genius Cheng Zheng is broken apart due to clashing personalities and a huge difference in social status. Coincidentally, they meet each other again in the workforce, and get entangled in each other’s lives once again.

Zhang Neng Liang is a fuerdai (second generation rich) who fails the university entrance exams and joins the People’s Liberation Army as a member of the tank crew. Squad leader Niu Nul Li comes from a rural village, and missed out on a place in the military academy twice due to Zhang Neng Liang. They start off on the wrong foot, though eventually become fast friends after being allocated to the same team. The pair are joined by sole female crew member Ye Xiao Meng, an earnest tomboy who becomes the army’s first female tank driver.

Zhang Qing, a present-day college student in culture and history major wants to study in professor Ye's postgraduate class, so he decides to write a historical fiction to elaborate his perspective of analyzing ancient literature history with modern concept. In the fiction, Zhang himself acts as a young man Fan Xian with mysterious life who lives in a remote seaside town of Kingdom Qing in his childhood, under the help of a mysterious mentor and a blindfolded watchman. Fan goes to the capital when he grows up, where he experiences plenty of ordeal and temper. Fan persists in adhering the rule of justice and goodness and lives his own glorious life.

During the Liu Song dynasty, powerful aristocrats have taken control of the government, throwing the country into chaos. To change this, Chancellor Liu Yikang (Qin Hao) introduces new policies for political reform. To break the alliance between the aristocrats, Liu Yikang enters into a marriage alliance with the Shen family, who has roots in the military. His fiancé turns out to be Shen Lige (Li Qin), whom he has previously met at a dance house. After marriage, Li Ge assists Liu Yikang in dealing with their political opponents and implementing new policies. However, in response, the aristocrats ally together to suppress Li Ge and the Shen family, who is later massacred. Pained by her loss, Li Ge vows to take revenge for her family.

In the year 1941, Nazi Germany declares war against the Soviet Union. Given that Manchukuo's loyalties lie with Cheng Tian, the Russians are caught in a situation where they face threats on all sides. Their intelligence agency devises a long-term plan in secret. Communist spy Tang Fei (Liu Yunlong) receives a mission to infiltrate the enemy by pretending to be one of their own. At the Security Bureau, he crosses paths with Cai Meng (Han Chae Young), a woman determined to fight against the Japanese regime. They gain each other's trust as they try to outsmart the enemy within their own territory.

This tells the story of corporate rookie Zhang Xiao Yu, and how through her extraordinary talent, she manages to earn the appreciation of Lin Rui, the sales division director of a renowned cosmetics company. Lin Rui’s many achievements as the sales director of the cosmetics company, SW, has earned her recognition from SW’s board of directors in France. She is next in line for her boss Shu Wan Ting’s position, but her road to the top hasn't been easy. Unwilling to be replaced, Shu Wan Ting recruits Lin Rui’s rival, Fang Jing, to lead a new department. This is when Zhang Xiao Yu is hired as Lin Rui’s secretary and gets caught up in the messy office politics. Despite everything happening around her, Zhang Xiao Yu manages to blossom as a career woman while also finding her true love.

Briar and Bramble, who lost their mother Barbara when they were cubs, are thrown into danger when escorting a scientist, which may lead them to a family reunion.

During the 1990s, Xu Ban Xia is a woman with vision and strength who overcomes many obstacles in the male-dominated steel industry to carve out a place for herself. Xu Ban Xia's mother died during childbirth while her father never cared for her. In spite of this, Xu Ban Xia has grown tough, proud and fearless in the face of challenges. Xu Ban Xia and her good friends Xiao Chen and Tong Xiao Qi venture into the transport of scrap steel. In an industry where men have an absolute advantage, Xu Ban Xia relies on her adventurous spirit and pragmatic attitude to weather many untold hardships and even survives death. She eventually opens up an international steel import business. Xu Banxia develops a keen sense for the market to gradually expands their business, pushing herself to grow in her field while also finding love.

In the early 1990s, the orphan Jane Xiaoai was forced to drop out of school due to her family’s poverty and moved to Guangzhou to work. In Guangzhou, she worked as a small restaurant worker and a tea girl in a foreign trade company. With her cleverness, kindness, and daring fighting spirit, she has grown into an excellent foreign trade merchandiser and business manager. But Jane Eyre is not satisfied with the identity leap that has been achieved. After several setbacks, she established her own foreign trade company. After experiencing the 1998 financial turmoil in Southeast Asia and the 2008 financial crisis, she relied on the results of China’s reform and opening up. China’s booming foreign trade trend eventually grew into the boss of a multinational.

As the chairman of a successful technology company, Lu Kun often finds himself in large group settings. While he has no problem addressing any number of people, he has incredible difficulty with any sort of direct, physical contact. Suffering from a strange allergy which is only triggered by direct skin-to-skin contact, something as simple as a handshake could prove deadly. Without the ability to directly come into contact with others, Lu Kun is intrigued when he learns a doctor by the name of Fu Yang has created an incredibly lifelike robot companion dubbed Friday.

According to the real deeds, the play tells that Huang Wenxiu came out of the countryside. After graduating from graduate school, he gave up the opportunity to work in a large city.

The film is adapted from Yu Hua's novel "Alive".

The two amnesiac youths, Yue Jinzhao and Yue Qi, have been wandering the land in search of their identities and pasts, only for Yue Qi to lose all of her money to a member of the Risen Soul Cult. In the process of trying to recover the lost money, they meet up with Luo Zhouyan, the head of the "Evanescent" Luo family who is spearheading efforts in her region to destroy the cult and expose its crimes. As the Yue siblings and Luo Zhaoyan join forces with each other and members of the True Martial Alliance: Ju Shifang, Ming Xin, and her uncle Xian Qing, to root out the leaders of the cult while overcoming their personal demons and finding out about the mysterious organizations operating in the shadows.

Bright Future tells the story of county party secretary Mei Xiaoge (played by Hu Ge) and the reforms he and his colleagues introduce to bring about much needed change and development to the lives of the people of Guangming county. Given the subject, it does appear to be a more serious themed show. The series is a key project by China’s National Radio and Television Administration.

This is a tale about a group of young people who grew up in Jiudaowan. 40 years after the reform and opening up, they experienced the hardships of life, the merry-go-round of love, and various ups and downs of their careers. These true friends fought side by side and eventually matured into adults.

During the Warlord Era, the mysterious jade beads that people have been trying to track down for generations has appeared in jianghu. According to the legend, sealed within it are clues to a priceless treasure that symbolizes the throne. At this time, revolutionaries and progressive students launch a campaign to protect the national treasures. The central plains unites under the leadership of the "Five Elements Families" to eradicate Zhang Siye and Japan's Black Dragon Association. Through a series of circumstances, Huo Xiaoxie is caught in the fray and eventually integrates the five elements to become a force to be reckoned with in the revolutionary struggle to restore China.

During the 1944 Wang Jingwei regime of the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, Lu Feng, an orphan, returns home to Shanghai after studying for two years in Japan. Unbeknownst to the world, he has been ordered to enter the No. 76 Headquarters as an undercover agent for the Communist Party. Along the way, Lu Feng encounters the mysterious Hua Xiang Yu, a capable and skilled woman who has just returned from studying abroad in America, and his old childhood friend, Huo Fei. Both individuals seem to hold secrets of their own. Time and time again, as Lu Feng strives to protect his undercover identity, he finds himself on the opposite side of Hua Xiang Yu. Slowly and uncertainly, the two circle around each other, each hoping to uncover the other's real purpose. In this time of chaos where corruption and violence dominate the world, these underground agents, can only choose to fight for what they believe is right... and, hopefully, bring about a more peaceful tomorrow.

The special homicide case that was unsolved in 1997 resurfaced 13 years later. Criminal policeman Wei Zhengrong, who wasn't able to find out the real murderer that year was traumatised and left the front line. The once fledgling new policeman Lu Xingzhi grown from his innocence and has become a meticulous criminal investigation expert. The many coincidences of the case brought the master and apprentice together again to hunt down the real culprit.

Set in Beijing in the 1970s, this drama tells an inspirational story of how a group of young people grew up, chased their dreams and struggled in their life. The leading male character went through a lot together with his friends. They took the college entrance examination, went into business, started their own business, went abroad and entered politics. In this process, they supported each other all the time and found the meaning of struggle. The female characters in the play also experienced the ups and downs in life, and their destinies were closely intertwined. By depicting the transformation and growth of these characters against the backdrop of reform and opening up, the play presents the rapid development of the country, interprets the precious friendship and love between people, and encourages people to work hard with a positive attitude.

Ten years ago, Xu Lai was trapped in the earthquake and rescued by fireman, Jin Shichuan and the search and rescue dog, "Zhuifeng". In order to appease the injured Xu Lai, Jinshichuan promised her ten-year appointment. Ten years later, Xu Lai returned to China to become a reporter and an international dog trainer. He met Jin Shichuan at the rescue site. Jin Shichuan not only didn't recognize Xu Lai, but also misunderstood her as an unscrupulous reporter. Xu Lai corrected the name of the rescue team despite the misunderstanding. When establishing the search and rescue dog team, Xu Lai became Jinshichuan's partner as an international dog trainer, conquered the people with excellent professional skills, and gave his rescue dog "Ping'an" to Jin Shichuan. As journalists and firefighters, they always meet in the front line of danger. The two of them who have been tested by life and death have gradually warmed up their feelings.

Set in the period before and after the founding of PRC, it is a story that follows the first generation of People's Public Security. CCP undercover agent, Zheng Chao Yang, engages in a battle of wits and will against KMT operatives. Before the battle of Liaoshen, Communist operative CCP undercover agent, Zheng Chao Yang (Zhang Yi), infiltrates and lurks in the Peiping police station. Zheng Chao Yang's identity is discovered by a traitor, forcing him to evacuate the police station immediately. In his escape, he is able to take with him a secret list of KMT spies that can deal a detrimental blow to the KMT. After the liberation of Peiping, Zheng Chao Yang returns to the city. However, waiting for him is a new battlefield. The KMT has dispatched a team of elite spies operating under the codename "Tao Yuan". Tao Yuan is led by the elite spy codenamed "Phoenix" and who is actually Chao Yang's older brother, Zheng Chao Shan (Huang Zhizhong), who is a famous doctor.