List of highest-grossing films in China


This is a list of the highest-grossing films in Mainland China. Most of the data below is provided by EntGroup's China Box Office website, with the gross in yuan.

Rankings of highest-grossing films

Top 50 all-time highest-grossing films

As of 17 February 2020.


RankTitleTotal gross Country / RegionYear
1Wolf Warrior 25.67929 billionChina2017
2Ne Zha5.01335 billionChina2019
3The Wandering Earth4.68433 billionChina2019
4'4.25025 billionUnited States2019
5Operation Red Sea3.65079 billionChina, Hong Kong2018
6Detective Chinatown 23.39769 billionChina2018
7The Mermaid3.39211 billionChina, Hong Kong2016
8My People, My Country3.17137 billionChina, Hong Kong2019
9Dying to Survive3.09996 billionChina2018
10The Captain2.91229 billionChina2019
11The Fate of the Furious2.67096 billionUnited States2017
12Hello Mr. Billionaire2.54757 billionChina2018
13Monster Hunt2.44002 billionChina, Hong Kong2015
14Furious 72.42659 billionUnited States2015
15'2.39054 billionUnited States2018
16Monster Hunt 22.23708 billionChina, Hong Kong2018
17Crazy Alien2.21365 billionChina2019
18Never Say Die2.20175 billionChina2017
19Aquaman2.01321 billionUnited States2018
20'1.97752 billionUnited States2014
21'1.94174 billionChina2017
22Venom1.87068 billionUnited States2018
23Kung Fu Yoga1.75260 billionChina2017
24Pegasus1.72854 billionChina2019
25The Bravest1.70659 billionChina2019
26'1.69588 billionUnited States2015
28'1.65593 billionChina, Hong Kong2017
29Lost in Hong Kong1.61410 billionChina2015
30Better Days1.55830 billionChina2019
31'1.55124 billionUnited States2017
32Zootopia1.53036 billionUnited States2016
33Warcraft1.47230 billionUnited States2016
34'1.46439 billionUnited States2015
35Goodbye Mr. Loser1.44161 billionChina2015
36Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw1.43464 billionUnited States2019
37Youth1.42258 billionChina2017
38Jurassic World1.42073 billionUnited States2015
39'1.41774 billionUnited States2019
40Ready Player One1.39666 billionUnited States2018
41Us and Them1.36163 billionChina2018
42The Island1.35505 billionChina2018
43Avatar1.33986 billionUnited States2010
44The White Storm 2 - Drug Lords1.31254 billionChina, Hong Kong2019
45Dangal1.29918 billionIndia2017
46Project Gutenberg1.27377 billionChina, Hong Kong2018
47Lost in Thailand1.27195 billionChina2012
48'1.24699 billionChina, Hong Kong2013
49'1.24635 billionUnited States2016
50'1.24522 billionUnited States2018

Top 20 domestic films

As of 17 February 2020.


RankTitleTotal gross Country / RegionYear
1Wolf Warrior 25.67929 billionChina2017
2Ne Zha5.01335 billionChina2019
3The Wandering Earth4.68433 billionChina2019
4Operation Red Sea3.65079 billionChina, Hong Kong2018
5Detective Chinatown 23.39769 billionChina2018
6The Mermaid3.39211 billionChina, Hong Kong2016
7My People, My Country3.17137 billionChina, Hong Kong2019
8Dying to Survive3.09996 billionChina2018
9The Captain2.91229 billionChina2019
10Hello Mr. Billionaire2.54757 billionChina2018
11Monster Hunt2.44002 billionChina, Hong Kong2015
12Monster Hunt 22.23708 billionChina, Hong Kong2018
13Crazy Alien2.21365 billionChina2019
14Never Say Die2.20175 billionChina2017
15'1.94174 billionChina2017
16Kung Fu Yoga1.75260 billionChina2017
17Pegasus1.72854 billionChina2019
18The Bravest1.70659 billionChina2019
19'1.65593 billionChina, Hong Kong2017
20Lost In Hong Kong1.61410 billionChina2015

Top 20 foreign films

As of 17 February 2020.


RankTitleTotal gross Country / RegionYear
1'4.25025 billionUnited States2019
2The Fate of the Furious2.67096 billionUnited States2017
3Furious 72.42659 billionUnited States2015
4'2.39054 billionUnited States2018
5Aquaman2.01321 billionUnited States2018
6'1.97752 billionUnited States2014
7Venom1.87068 billionUnited States2018
8'1.69588 billionUnited States2018
9'1.55124 billionUnited States2017
10Zootopia1.53036 billionUnited States2016
11'1.46439 billionUnited States2015
12Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw1.43464 billionUnited States2019
13Jurassic World1.42073 billionUnited States2015
14'1.41774 billionUnited States2019
15Ready Player One1.39666 billionUnited States2018
16Avatar1.33986 billionUnited States2010
17Dangal1.29918 billionIndia2017
18'1.24635 billionUnited States2016
191.24522 billionUnited States2018
20Coco1.21186 billionUnited States2017

Timeline of highest-grossing films

Up until the 1980s, the Chinese box office was typically reported in terms of box office admissions, rather than gross revenue. The film with the highest ticket sales in China is :zh:喜盈門|In-Laws, released in 1981, followed by Mysterious Buddha and then Gunshots in the CIB, each with more than ticket sales. The Chinese–Hong Kong film Shaolin Temple set the record for the highest-grossing film in China, with a gross revenue of. The foreign film with the highest ticket sales in China is the Indian Bollywood film Caravan, which had its Chinese release in 1979 and sold nearly tickets in China. Hollywood film releases were relatively rare in China up until First Blood, which had its Chinese release in 1985, and went on to sell tickets, the highest for a Hollywood film in China up until 2018.
China began releasing box office gross revenue results for foreign non-Chinese films in November 1994, upon the release of The Fugitive. In 1995, Stanley Tong's Hong Kong action film Rumble in the Bronx became the all-time highest-grossing foreign film in China, where it grossed ¥95 million; it is not considered a domestic film as it was produced in Hong Kong. Later the same year, the American film True Lies overtook it as the all-time highest-grossing foreign film in China, with ¥103 million earned at the box office, while Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun became the year's highest-grossing domestic film in the country with ¥50 million. In 1997, Xie Jin's The Opium War was the year's top-grossing domestic film with ¥72 million, though it was narrowly beaten that year by , an American film which earned ¥72.1 million. In 1998, Titanic became the all-time highest grossing film to be released in China, with a then-unprecedented ¥360 million. In 2002, Hero became the highest-grossing domestic film, with. China's first domestic film to breach ¥360 million was released in 2009, The Founding of a Republic. In 2015, Monster Hunt became the first domestic film in 17 years to become the overall highest-grossing film in China, earning ¥2.44 billion.

Highest-grossing films by year

, an American film director, is the most represented filmmaker in the chart with four films to his credit, occupying the top spot in 2001, 2007, 2011, and 2014. Among domestic filmmakers, Feng Xiaogang and Stephen Chow are the most represented with three films each.
YearTitleTotal grossCountry / Region
1939Children of China9,000,000 ticketsChina
1950Iron Soldier11,000,000 ticketsChina
1951The White Haired Girl6,000,000 ticketsChina
1954A Torn Lily8,722,000 ticketsHong Kong
1955Awaara 100,000,000 ticketsIndia
1956The Peerless Beauty11,645,000 ticketsHong Kong
1962The Red Shoes44,000,000 ticketsUnited Kingdom
1979Gunshots in the CIB300,000,000 ticketsChina
1980Mysterious Buddha403,210,000 ticketsChina
1981:zh:喜盈門|In-Laws 469,290,000 ticketsChina
1982Shaolin Temple¥161,578,014 China, Hong Kong
1983Our Niu Baisui250,000,000 ticketsChina
1984'¥86,000,000 China, Hong Kong
1985Shaolin vs. Wu Tang 2: Wu Tang Invasion200,000,000 ticketsHong Kong
1986Innocent Teenagers161,000,000 ticketsHong Kong
1987'116,000,000 ticketsChina, Hong Kong
1988Yellow River Fighter130,000,000 ticketsChina
1989The Birth of New China¥30,000,000 China
1990:zh:妈妈再爱我一次|My Beloved¥94,000,000 Taiwan
1991Jiao Yulu¥53,120,000 China
1992:zh:周恩來 |Zhou EnlaiChina
1994The Fugitive¥25,800,000United States
1995True Lies¥103,000,000United States
1996Police Story 4: First Strike¥80,000,000Hong Kong
1997'¥72,100,000United States
1998Titanic¥360,000,000United States
1999Be There or Be Square¥43,000,000China
2000Final Decision¥120,000,000China
2001Pearl Harbor¥105,000,000United States
2002Hero¥250,000,000China
2003Cell Phone¥53,000,000China
2004Kung Fu Hustle¥173,000,000China, Hong Kong
2005The Promise¥181,000,000China
2006Curse of the Golden Flower¥291,000,000China
2007Transformers¥282,000,000United States
2008If You Are the One¥325,000,000China
20092012¥466,000,000United States
2010Avatar¥1,339,860,000United States
2011'¥1,071,570,000United States
2012Lost in Thailand¥1,271,950,000China
2013'¥1,246,990,000China, Hong Kong
2014'¥1,977,520,000United States
2015Monster Hunt¥2,440,020,000China, Hong Kong
2016The Mermaid¥3,392,110,000China, Hong Kong
2017Wolf Warrior 2¥5,679,290,000China
2018Operation Red Sea¥3,650,790,000China, Hong Kong
2019Ne Zha¥5,013,350,000China

Box office milestones

As of 17 February 2020.


MilestoneTitleTotal grossCountry / RegionDate reached
5,000,000 ticketsThe White Haired Girl6,000,000 ticketsChina1951
10,000,000 ticketsIron Soldier11,000,000 ticketsChina1952
20,000,000 ticketsAwaara 100,000,000 ticketsIndia1955
30,000,000 ticketsThe Red Shoes44,000,000 ticketsUnited Kingdom1962
40,000,000 ticketsThe Red Shoes44,000,000 ticketsUnited Kingdom1963
50,000,000 ticketsAwaara 100,000,000 ticketsIndia1978
100,000,000 ticketsCaravan300,000,000 ticketsIndia1979
200,000,000 ticketsGunshots in the CIB300,000,000 ticketsChina1979
300,000,000 ticketsGunshots in the CIB300,000,000 ticketsChina1980
400,000,000 ticketsMysterious Buddha403,210,000 ticketsChina1981
¥100,000,000Shaolin Temple¥161,578,014China, Hong Kong1983
¥200,000,000Titanic¥360,000,000United States1998-01-18
¥300,000,000Titanic¥360,000,000United States1998-02-01
¥400,000,000¥403,665,000United States2009-08-02
¥500,000,000Avatar¥1,160,500,000United States2010-01-17
¥1,000,000,000Avatar¥1,160,500,000United States2010-02-08
¥2,000,000,000Furious 7¥2,426,590,000United States2015-04-26
¥3,000,000,000The Mermaid¥3,392,100,000China, Hong Kong2016-02-26
¥4,000,000,000Wolf Warrior 2¥5,679,290,000China2017-08-11
¥5,000,000,000Wolf Warrior 2¥5,679,290,000China2017-08-19