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The animated film “Ne Zha 2” achieved a blowout success during the Lunar New Year holiday, sending China’s box office soaring to record new heights. China’s national pride, weighed down by the country’s economic slowdown of recent years, also received a much-needed boost from the big success.

The film has already grossed 14.1 billion yuan ($1.95 billion), surpassing not only “Captain America: Brave New World” during the same season but also the 2021 blockbuster “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” to take the prize as the world’s seventh best grossing movie of all time. Such shiny achievements have turned this three-year-old demon boy known as Ne Zha into the new symbol of national pride for China, capable of slaying Spider Man and Captain America.