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Four months ago, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television of China accepted the reorganization and changed its name to the General Administration of Press and Publication, Radio, Film and Television. After that, the agency updates its policy and responsibilities, and published online. One of the cancellations is that they are not going to run the film censorship for those of general topics scripts.

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The change is authorized by the official article, which also describes amendment of their responsibilities, focusing on "cancellation", "release" and "reinforcement". There are twenty cancellations and eight releases in the article.

The professor Chen, Shan thinks it is the right time to release this new article. In the present day, there are about thousands of new movies every year and they would benefit from the cancellation in various ways. The theater can perform the movie on the targeted time and save the budget for other production. The new rules will challenge the movie directors because it makes the market more competitive.

The associates of the agency told the journalist that the new censorship has been implemented for three to four years. For a while the scripts were required full inspection during the censorship. In the recent years, only 1,500-summary is required. The statement is supported by the majority of the insiders. They submit the summary of the scripts to the previous agency then they can start to produce the movie. Sometimes the agency will ask them to modify the scripts, yet rarely reject the scripts.

Some others express their concerns that the agency will not accept the movie after it is done. In that case, the investigators will loss all the funds. The director Zhang Qi agrees with that. Due to the still-existing censorship of finished movie, the directors and the investigators have the chance to not get their movie pass by the agency.

Although the concerns continue, the change is welcomed by most people. They see it as a positive sign of improvement of the censorship.

In terms of the definition of "general topics", Shan Chen said the definition includes almost all the daily topics except those related to revolution history, the great leaders from the government, religion and race. If the topic is not well defined by the directors, a full script inspection is required and well known by them.