A project to introduce digital cinema to the Chinese countryside has been newly launched when four hundred mobile cinema projectors were recently donated to rural villages. 　　

The Director-General of the Beijing Culture Administration Jiang Fanmin is one of the organizers of the program. He says farmers from 2,500 administrative villages will be able to watch films at their doorsteps in 5 years time. 　　

"We forecast that in the next five years, 60 percent of all villages will have a digital cinema. That's at least 2,500 villages." Once all the cinemas have been built, he says they will put a cultural welfare policy in place to help farmers in poor and remote areas watch films for free. 　　

Other villages will be charged a low fee to watch the films. 　　

Cinema facilities are few and far apart in rural China and the program will significantly boost capacity.