2 April

A delegation led by Union Minister Dr. Pe Myint arrived to Shangdong Province Qingdao Film Museum via Beijing, People’s Republic of China yesterday afternoon.

The museum was the earliest cinema in China built in 1902 and exhibits film documents, film posters and film making equipment that were observed by the Union Minister and party.

Next they met with officials from Qingdao culture travel department and Qingdao film works and discussed and invited for basic infrastructure, technical support and investment in Myanmar motion picture sector development. The Qingdao Film Museum was designed by German experts in 1899 and was constructed in 1907 as a three-storey cinema building. The cinema was restored in 2013 and become a film museum and a restaurant. It was the first cinema in China and was showcasing the earliest film history of China.— MNA (Translated by Zaw Min)