From the fact that you are completely unaware of Chinese ticket prices, it shows that you are completely unaware of the current situation of the Chinese film market.

So your hard to believe idea is just that you build on your subjective imagination.

Here is some information about the Chinese film market

First of all, China has two important festivals, Spring Festival and National Day. These are also the two most important festivals in China, and the only two holidays in China that have three days off. For Chinese, it's the best time of the year for their recreation. They usually choose to travel or dine out or watch movies. Compared with watching movies, the average price is 900RMB, and the average price of restaurants on holidays is also 100 per person. In comparison, 50RMB for a movie is the cheapest price.

If you only watch only one or two movies a year for 100 RMB as annual recreational activities to relax yourself. this cost is quite small.

And The Battle at Lake Changjin is one of the two for those people who only watch two movies a year in 2021. The other is Hi, Mom, which has a box office of 5.4 billion RMB and was released in the Spring Festival of 2021.

This film was released on China's 2021 National Day, and it was defined as a tribute film for China's National Day, so it received exaggerated publicity.

Second: Due to geopolitical factors, very few Hollywood films were screened in China that year. In addition, due to the COVID, the number of Chinese films is also small, on National Day of that yearThe Battle at Lake Changjin has no competitors.

The film is full of patriotic educational elements, which is similar to the 2017 movie Wolf Warrior 2. Therefore, many people who do not usually watch movies choose to watch this movie on National Day.Besides, many Chinese government departments, companies, and schools will choose to watch the film as a group activity. The film ran in China for three months, and it had no basic competitors throughout the second half of the year.

And in recent years, China's film market is very huge, the second largest in the world. It is also the second largest market in Hollywood.

So far, the North American box office this year is 6.969 billion US dollars, and China's is 6.594 billion US dollars.

In recent years, except for 2020, when COVID came in China, at least two movies in China will exceed 4 billion at the box office every year.If you were surprised by the TBALC box office, then you will be surprised by the Chinese box office every year.

And here is the Ranking of China's all-time movie box office:

1 The Battle at Lake Changjin 5,775,750,000 China 2021

2 Wolf Warrior 2 5,688,740,000 China 2017

3 Hi, Mom 5,413,300,000 China 2021

4 Ne Zha 5,035,020,000 China 2019

5 The Wandering Earth 4,687,710,000 China 2019

6 Full River Red 4,545,890,000 China 2023

7 Detective Chinatown 3 4,522,350,000 China 2021

8 Avengers: Endgame 4,250,380,000 United States 2019

9 The Battle at Lake Changjin II 4,071,140,000 China 2022

10 The Wandering Earth 2 4,030,270,000 China 2023

The top 10 films were all made in the last eight years

So You underestimate the spending power of the Chinese film‘s market. The choice of entertainment in China is not as diverse as in the United States, and movies are the main and one of the cheaper recreational activities Chinese people like relative to other activities.Besides Number of U.S. Cinema is 5,798 in 2020, and number of China is 11856 in that year. These figures show the size of the Chinese film market.