Ne Zha 2 alone took ¥15.46 billion — roughly ¥4 billion more than the second and third films on this list combined — and rewrote the top of the Chinese chart in a single season. The tightest race is at the bottom: Detective Chinatown 2 at number 19 beat The Mermaid at number 20 by just ¥510,000, and Pegasus 2 misses out at number 21 by another ¥6.3 million, leaving three films inside a ¥7 million band. Two other figures explain how different this market is from the global chart: thirteen of the twenty opened during Chinese New Year, and only two are imports — Zootopia 2 from 2025 (¥4.59 billion) and Avengers: Endgame from 2019 (¥4.25 billion). The Mermaid, which set China's all-time record with ¥3.397 billion back in 2016, now sits exactly on the cut line at number 20.