The Chinese mainland's box office revenue for the just concluded Mid-Autumn Festival holiday period reached 389 million yuan (around 54.8 million U.S. dollars), according to the China Film Administration.
The holiday, spanning from Sunday to Tuesday, attracted 9.57 million moviegoers, with domestic films earning 332 million yuan, accounting for 85.35 percent of the total revenue.
Drama film "Stand by Me" topped this year's Mid-Autumn Festival holiday ticket sales chart with 123 million yuan.
Comedy "A Frozen Rage" that debuted on Sept. 15 came in second with nearly 50 million yuan, followed by the drama film "Like a Rolling Stone" that garnered 36.2 million yuan.
Other notable performances included "Enjoy Yourself" with over 27.8 million yuan, and the crime film "Go for Broke", which pocketed almost 19.7 million yuan.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated on the night when the moon reaches its fullest and brightest on the 15th day of the eighth month in the lunar calendar.
China's Mid-Autumn holiday box office reaches 389 million yuan
The 2024 World Robot Contest Finals, just concluded on Tuesday in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, has captivated visitors with exciting robot battles and groundbreaking technologies.
The event consists of two major competitions: Brain-Computer Interface or BCI Brain-controlled Robot Competition and Youth Robot Design Competition.
Running from Jan 16 to 21, the event covers more than 20 major events, 50 minor events and 100 competition groups, providing a broad competitive stage for robot enthusiasts around the world.
During the six-day event, incredible displays realized by BCI technology, like typing and communicating with mind, have also taken the spotlight at the fair.
BCI refers to a system allowing a person to control a computer or other electronic device using his or her brainwaves, without requiring any movement or verbal instruction.
At the competition site, young contestants, wearing portable devices on their heads, silently controlled line-following robots to complete challenge tasks by leveraging their brainwave signals.
Wu Qin, a referee of the competition, explained that the performance of contestants is determined by their level of concentration during the event, with the data being collected from within the human brain.
"The BCI device works kind of like a fitness tracker that monitors our heart rate and blood oxygen levels," Wu added.
Meanwhile, a display and experience area, showcasing various application scenarios of BCI, have attracted crowds of visitors.
"I just experienced the mood breathing light and visual typing. Both are quite advanced. I haven't come across similar things before. This competition let us learn about these novel devices, and it's great," said a visitor.
Robot competition wows public with advancing brain-computer interface technology