I know. I think it's just because most members on here are ultra nationalists, so rationality is the last thing in their mind. This is the case not only with Chinese members to be honest, but with members from every other country on here be it Indians, Pakistanis, Turks, Iranians, etc etc. So the bragging is normal on here.
Even with a clear topic like this one, where we can clearly see that Chinese movie is almost exclusively local with little to no box office revenue outside the country, yet some members here are saying China is challenging the US Hollywood, a country who almost completely dominates the world movie industry and box office worldwide.
The issue with China's entertainment industry is not a lack of talent or skills, since a large educated populous increasingly wealthy country like China should have a far more influential entertainment industry and influence globally. The issue is the country's system as well, since the nature of the government itself and censorship discourages certain types of movies from being made.
The CCP even prohibits too much violence , blood, ghosts etc in movies. Just look at this example of one successful Chinese ghost producer whose movie was censored for such reasons( according to the party for promoting ghosts and superstitions. Lol )
Xinyan Fu dives into the Chinese horror movie history and the ideology behind the censorship that targets horror movies.
independent-magazine.org
Even American movies products won't perform much better if they were acting in such an environment in China, since it stiffles creativity and impedes you from even coming up with certain types of ideas/movies. Lol
Secondly the country is too focused on their internal market (guess its because they have a huge population), so they focus almost exclusively on China, unfortunately people around the world aren't that attracted to Chinese culture per se, so there is little incentive for foreigners to search for such movies in China.
Thirdly but funny enough, internet censorship also plays a part . Since Chinese Internet space is basically closed up and isolated to the world akin to a North Korea situation in this sector. So Chinese media, entertainment and Internet players are closed off from interacting with a global audience. This impedes growth, interaction, exchange of ideas/inspiration, and discovery of some good unknown movies in China. This is also another big handicap for the country and an unintended consequence of the great firewall. For example if not for Chinese members in China on here telling us about this movie on this thread I'm sure most of us won't even know about this movie, since I personally have never even heard of it until I saw this hread. Lol So this shows how important connectivity in the Internet era is , those who are closed off are at some sort of disadvantage globally not locally though.
In fact all the few Chinese members in China on here have to use VPN to bypass the great firewall and have access to this site and interact with audiences globally. If not for that none of them will even be on here. So imagine the vast majority of Chinese people who don't use VPN and who will never really connect or interact much with the world online.
So it's understandable for such a huge increasingly prosperous country to be punching way below its weight in this sector. Small South Korea with 50million people has achieve way more global media and entertainment influence globally than China. Its not like they are just better than China , there are political reasons for that.