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State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) under the State Council of the People's Republic of China dictates whether, when, and how a movie gets released in Mainland China according to the authority granted to it by the 2002 Regulations on the Administration of Movies. On Nov 7, 2016, The 12th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress at its 24th session passed the new PRC Film Industry Promotion Law from a legislative point of view. The law became effective on Mar 1, 2017. Although the country lacks of an equivalent like the Motion Picture Association of America film rating system, according to an unofficial translation of the new law, article 16 stipulates that films must not contain the following content:

  1. Violations of the basic principles of the Constitution of China, incitement of resistance to or undermining of implementation of the Constitution, laws, or administrative regulations;
  2. Endangerment of the national unity, sovereignty or territorial integrity; leaking state secrets; endangering national security; harming national dignity,honor or interests; advocating terrorism or extremism;
  3. Belittling exceptional ethnic cultural traditions, incitement of ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, violations of ethnic customs, distortion of ethnic history or ethnic historical figures, injuring ethnic sentiments or undermining ethnic unity;
  4. Inciting the undermining of national religious policy, advocating cults or superstitions;
  5. Endangerment of social morality, disturbing social order, undermining social stability; promoting pornography, gambling, drug use, violence, or terror; instigation of crimes or imparting criminal methods;
  6. Violations of the lawful rights and interests of minors or harming the physical and psychological health of minors;
  7. Insults of defamation of others, or spreading others' private information and infringement of others' lawful rights and interests;
  8. Other content prohibited by laws or administrative regulations.

On June 1, 2017, the SAPPRFT issued a notice, forbidding any spread of so-called "complete version", "uncut version", and "deleted scenes", etc. on any platform, including but not limited to online, mobile Internet, broadcast TV.

List

Date Title Prevailing Theatrical

Runtime in Non-Censored Markets

Runtime in China
July 4, 2014 American Hustle 138 minutes 103 minutes
Mar 27, 2015 Kingsman: The Secret Service 129 minutes 125 minutes
Mar 18, 2016 The Revenant (2015 film) 156 minutes 156 minutes though with a rumored 30-second cut
Dec 2, 2016 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film) 127 minutes 126 minutes
Dec 8, 2016 Hacksaw Ridge 139 minutes 19 seconds 138 minutes 30 seconds
Feb 24, 2017 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 106 minutes 99 minutes
Mar 3, 2017 Logan (film) 137 minutes 123 minutes
Apr 28, 2017 Love Off the Cuff 120 minutes 117 minutes
June 2, 2017 The Lost City of Z (film) 141 minutes 104 minutes
June 6, 2017 Alien: Covenant 122 minutes 116 minutes
June 9, 2017 The Mummy (2017 film) 107 minutes 106 minutes
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