Movies, television, and paper media are the three horses in the Shenchong media landscape. Therefore, after Zhou Liang Shuyi and others, those who came in to have the meeting were Qiu Liben, editor-in-chief of "Shengshi Oriental Weekly", Philip Paulin of "Far East Economic Review", Lin Xingzhi of "Xinbao Financial News", Luo Weiming of "Movie Age", and Lin Niantong of "First Movie Review".

The rapid development of the economy between Hong Kong and Taiwan has given birth to a large number of local middle-class people. After the granaries are full, they know etiquette, and when they have enough food and clothing, they know honor and disgrace. After meeting material needs, these people will naturally pursue spiritual satisfaction. Gossip entertainment magazines are too vulgar and boring, and English magazines have a sense of cultural isolation. Therefore, Shen Chong used the method of "occupying the magpie's nest and pursuing a nest to have children" based on "Asia Weekly" and then taking the explosive scoop news as the selling point. The founded "Shen Shi Oriental Weekly" immediately attracted great attention. In just a few months, he firmly sat in the No. 1 Chinese political and economic magazine. It was not only popular in Hong Kong, but also in the Chinese region of Southeast Asia. This magazine was seen on every plane taking off from Kai Tak Airport.

"... The sales volume of "Shengshi Oriental Weekly" is about 300,000 yuan per issue, including 180,000 yuan in Hong Kong, 80,000 yuan in Chinese in Southeast Asia, and 10,000 yuan in North America and Australia combined... Taiwan does not allow our magazines to be published in Taiwan, but according to statistics, about 50UU of each issue of the magazine was bought by a Taiwanese trading company. I think it should be the official purchase for internal distribution." After Qiu Liben introduced Taiwan, he introduced the situation in the mainland: "The situation in the mainland is relatively optimistic. Although the Ministry of Culture and the Hong Kong and Macao Office have not approved our application for distribution in Guangdong, magazines are allowed to be sold on the trains of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway. In this way, more than 12,000 copies can be sold in each issue. I think sales will soar after the opening of publication."

"Asia Weekly" has been founded for many years, and it has no shortage of channels and reputation. It already has sales of more than 100,000 yuan. "Shengshi Oriental Weekly" born on its corpse has a sales of 300,000 yuan in just a few months. However, Chen Chong did not value sales. He was interested in the influence, so he was not happy. Instead, he warned: "Editor Qiu, you should not take it lightly, walk steadily, and do not rush to open up the market. Especially in order to increase sales, you should not create some controversial topics that attract attention. Taiwan and the mainland are now in a period of transformation, just like a young girl who is in love, whose minds are unpredictable and cannot be stirred up. If you are not careful, you will be regarded as a gangster and will be sent to prison for your whole life."

Qiu Liben's heart was greatly calmed after a trip to Beijing. He nodded when he heard this and said, "Don't worry, Mr. Chen, I know the right measure."

"Far East Economic Review" and "Xinbao Finance News" are both high-quality media, with good reputation, stable revenue, and smart management. They have no trouble. Therefore, Chen Chong has never interfered in the daily operations of these two media. This time, the two editors were called to hold a meeting, not to report on the business, but to other things.

"Editor-General Qiu is doing political news, Mr. Philip and Mr. Lin are doing financial news, and Editor-General Luo and Editor-in-Chief Lin are doing film news. Everyone is incompatible. Today, you are all here to find you to work together and report an in-depth news."

Chen Chong signaled Gu Liwei to send a document to each person, and then said: "In early April, I held an Academy Awards. Mr. Zhao Dan said some more intense opinions at the award ceremony. Over the past month, the mainland media have held a national discussion around his words. Everyone is well-informed and must have heard of it. Among them, one of them has attracted my attention."

"This view is the film rating system. The United States and the United Kingdom have rating systems, while Hong Kong is known as the Oriental Hollywood, the world's second largest film production site. It only has the film inspection office, but there is no rating system. This situation made me very curious, so I checked it out and didn't know if I didn't check it. I was shocked when I checked it. It turned out that Hong Kong's film inspection system was an illegal governance act without a legal basis, and it has lasted for almost 30 years. As a place of rule of law, such things happened and no one discovered it, which shocked me."

Although in 19RU, the H line "We Hong Kong talks about the law" was not overwhelmed, the British and Hong Kong governments often hyped up Hong Kong's complete laws and good public security to create a sense of colonial superiority. Therefore, several people were surprised by this and picked up the documents in front of them and read them.

There are legal loopholes in Hong Kong's film inspection system, which is something that Chen Chong knew long ago. In 1987, after the front page of "Far East Economic Review" broke this loophole, the Hong Kong government spent more than a year to re-formulate the law on electric chair inspection and introduce a hierarchical system. Since then, the term "three-level film" has been added to the Chinese vocabulary.

Chen Chong was not a lawyer, and knew the origin, but he didn't know what legal loophole was. So when he got rich, he found a law firm and entrusted them to study the film inspection system, and quickly figured out where the law was violated.

The legal basis for the current film inspection system in Hong Kong comes from the Public Entertainment Venue Ordinance of 1953. According to its provisions, the Governor, in conjunction with the Executive Council, formulated the Film Inspection Regulations and established the Film and Television and Entertainment Management Office in 1953. The film inspection system in Hong Kong has been officially formed since then.

In the following years, film inspections were conducted without clear standards. In order to improve this situation, in 1973, the Film and Television and Entertainment Administration Office published the film review standards, namely the "Movie Inspection Guide", which listed eight inspection standards, but this is not a law, but an administrative code, equivalent to the departmental regulations of the mainland.

According to Article 7, paragraph 1 of the Public Entertainment Places Ordinance 1953, the government shall conduct film inspections in accordance with the methods and principles prescribed in the Film Inspection Regulations, but the Film Inspection Regulations do not specify the principles and standards of inspections.

According to the principle of common law in the United Kingdom and the United States, all powers granted by laws are limited. The "Movie Inspection Regulations" do not stipulate principles and standards to limit the power of government film inspections, which violates the principles of common law and does not comply with the provisions of the "Public Entertainment Places Regulations 1953". Therefore, it is a more than right, and the more right it is illegal.

British and American laws have always paid attention to correct procedures. The "Movie Inspection Regulations" are illegal. The Film and Television and Entertainment Management Office established in accordance with it and the "Movie Inspection Guide" formulated and published by it naturally loses its legality. Therefore, all film inspection activities carried out by the government in accordance with the "Regulations" and the "Guidelines" are illegal.

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, such illegal behavior is boring and irrelevant, and can even be called picking the bones in the eggs, the law is reasonable and rigorous. Therefore, this information has a great impact on Hong Kong's legal system and the film industry, and is a big bomb.

However, it is very important to know when the bomb will detonate. After Chen Chong received the report, he kept attracting it but not sending it out, just to find a suitable opportunity. Now, he feels that the time is ripe. The mainland is now discussing film legislation, but he only wants to call for legislation, but he doesn't know how to legislate. It just uses Hong Kong as a reference to let mainland filmmakers know how to legislate.

According to Chen Chong's memory, in 1987, the Far East Economic Review broke out the legal loopholes in the Hong Kong film inspection system. The Hong Kong government immediately abolished the 1953 Film Inspection Regulations, formulated the transitional "1987 Film Inspection Regulations", and then began legislation. After more than a year of discussion, the "Film Inspection Regulations" with legal effects was promulgated in 19RR in 19RR, and a new film inspection agency was established to introduce the film rating system.

At the same time, after years of discussion and deliberation, the Mainland has formulated a film rating system based on Hong Kong's film legislation process, which was promulgated on March 1, 1989 and implemented nationwide on May 1, but unfortunately, a month later, a storm caused the 10-year efforts of mainland filmmakers to vain.

The official and authoritative magazine "Outlook" has specifically reported on the hierarchy system in the mainland. Its name is "Notice on the Implementation of Censorship and Screening of Some Films". It is nominally "some films", and actually covers almost all types of movies except military and main themes. It clearly stipulates four standards for "children should not watch": films with plots such as rape, theft, drug use, drug trafficking, and prostitution; films with plots of violence, murder and fighting that are prone to terror among children; films with plots of sexual and sexual behavior; films with plots of social deformities.

There is no problem with these four items at first sight. There is similar regulations for any country's film rating system, but there is a very important information hidden in it - this is the standard of "not suitable for children to watch", which means that the movies mentioned in the mainland can be produced and released, as long as minors are prohibited from entering when selling tickets.

It is conceivable how important this rating system is to the mainland film industry. If there was no June trend, Chinese films in the 1990s would have lived well...

Ten thousand years is too long, and 1989 is too long. Besides, it is not clear whether it can stop the storm. Therefore, he plans to take advantage of the reforms in the mainland and people's hearts are volatile to start a wave of film grading. He is planning to use "Far East Economic Review" and "Present Times Oriental Weekly" as arrows to open up the loopholes in the Hong Kong film inspection system, and then use "Movie Age" and "First Movie Review" as wings to guide mainland filmmakers to pay attention and learn from it. In this way, it is like dominoes, to promote the formulation of a film grading system in the mainland.

"Cases that can change the rules of an industry development are not available every day. I want you to do this news well." Chen Chong habitually knocked on the table and reminded: "Phillip, you and Editor-in-Chief Qiu, after the report comes out, you can contact the Legislative Council members more. When the legislation comes, I will know the specific content every time they discuss. Lao Luo and Editor-in-Chief Lin, this case is related to the future of the Hong Kong film industry. You can interview the big guys in the industry, especially Run Run Shaw. Shaw has produced so many erotic films. If the movie rating is the greatest impact on his company."
Chapter completed!