CHINESE blockbusters “The Taking of Tiger Mountain” and “Youth,” as well as 24 other popular Chinese movies and television shows, will air to European audiences as part of the annual cultural exchange event entitled Beijing Excellent Films and Television Productions’ Overseas Exhibition Season.

The 2018 event kicked off in Athens on May 9, and will run for up to six months.

First launched in 2014, the event hosted by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has exhibited more than 100 Chinese films and television productions in the United Kingdom, France, Russia and some countries in Africa.

This year’s lineup includes six television dramas, eight documentaries, three animated series, seven movies and two promotional flicks for the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Beijing.

Attica TV in Greece, which reaches 90 percent of the country’s television audiences, and London-based Propeller TV, which covers more than 30 million families in 45 European countries and regions, will broadcast the Chinese productions. (China Daily)