The Banlam Grand Theater in Xiamen hosted the opening ceremony of the China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival last week. This year's festival includes the Golden Rooster Award nomination ceremony, an awards ceremony, film screenings, forums, a project market and outreach programs for early- and mid-career filmmakers. 

A project signing ceremony also kicked off this year's Golden Rooster Film Market. Participants announced a total of 175 cultural and film industry projects. Six projects each topped one billion yuan in value, with 97 projects valued above 100 million yuan. The Xiamen Film and Cultural Industry Base and City Film and Culture Theme Project was featured at the ceremony. 

The film base is home to a new international film and television copyright service platform. Based in Xiamen, the platform's stated mission is to globalize Chinese film and television intellectual properties, to attract international film and TV IP copyrights, to promote international cultural exchange and to support the development of the film industry.