60 years ago, only Shanghai and other major cities owned cinemas, and the Chinese film market was not open for common people. After the liberation of China, more and more people flocked into cinema and enjoyed the wonderful movies.
Pupils from Lhasa No.3 Primary School are waiting in a queue for a film in front of the newly built as well as the first cinema of Lhasa, file photo from Xinhua on May 5, 1959.