On April 27, a sci-fi short movie titled Dreaming of the Future, featuring interactive human-screen technology and integrated sound and light effects, unveiled the 8th China Science Fiction Convention in 2024 at the No. 1 Blast Furnace of Shougang Park in Shijingshan District. Under the theme of "Creating the Future with Scientific Dreams", the conference features four sections: an opening ceremony, a forum, industrial promotional sessions and the Sci-fi Film Week.
During the opening ceremony, the 2024 China Science Fiction Industry Report, the Science Fiction Industry Development Initiative and new sci-fi films were released successively. The construction projects of the Science Fiction Alliance of Universities and the Science Fiction Film and Television Industry Institute were launched during the same section. Awards were also presented to the representatives of the winners of the 2nd Science Fiction Planet Award. It is noteworthy that the sci-fi short films Earth Artillery and Double Helix made their debut. These two works were adapted from Liu Cixin's novel of the same name and Wang Jinkang's short film clips respectively.
At the convention, the 2024 China Science Fiction Industry Report, which was jointly released by the China Science Fiction Research Center and the Research Center for Science and Human Imagination of the Southern University of Science and Technology, showed that China's science fiction industry is seeing accelerated growth. In 2023, the total revenue of China's science fiction industry reached CNY 113.29 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase by 29.1 percent; the total revenue of China's science fiction film and television industry reached CNY 11.59 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase by 38.8 percent; China's sci-fi game industry garnered a total revenue of CNY 65.19 billion, increasing by 15.4 percent year-on-year; China's sci-fi cultural tourism industry achieved a total revenue of CNY 31.06 billion, representing a year-on-year increase by 106.7 percent.
(Sources: Beijing Daily, Shijingshan District Convergence Media Center)
During the opening ceremony, the 2024 China Science Fiction Industry Report, the Science Fiction Industry Development Initiative and new sci-fi films were released successively. The construction projects of the Science Fiction Alliance of Universities and the Science Fiction Film and Television Industry Institute were launched during the same section. Awards were also presented to the representatives of the winners of the 2nd Science Fiction Planet Award. It is noteworthy that the sci-fi short films Earth Artillery and Double Helix made their debut. These two works were adapted from Liu Cixin's novel of the same name and Wang Jinkang's short film clips respectively.
At the convention, the 2024 China Science Fiction Industry Report, which was jointly released by the China Science Fiction Research Center and the Research Center for Science and Human Imagination of the Southern University of Science and Technology, showed that China's science fiction industry is seeing accelerated growth. In 2023, the total revenue of China's science fiction industry reached CNY 113.29 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase by 29.1 percent; the total revenue of China's science fiction film and television industry reached CNY 11.59 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase by 38.8 percent; China's sci-fi game industry garnered a total revenue of CNY 65.19 billion, increasing by 15.4 percent year-on-year; China's sci-fi cultural tourism industry achieved a total revenue of CNY 31.06 billion, representing a year-on-year increase by 106.7 percent.
(Sources: Beijing Daily, Shijingshan District Convergence Media Center)