Sitcom becomes nation’s longest-running show

China has stepped up efforts to punish those who promote cults online and via social media, in accordance with China’s latest judicial interpretation on cult-related crime.

The internet and social media outlets have become prominent platforms for cult members to preach their ideologies in recent years. To ensure such new criminal activities can be clearly targeted by law, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate jointly released the judicial interpretation onWednesday. she hopes they will air another 3,000 episodes and that it regularly beats every other program the TV station broadcasts in terms of audience ratings.

She attributed the show’s success to telling interesting stories about families against the backdrop of economic and social developments in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, since 2000.

“The TV series, which is recorded in Cantonese, features the typical culture and lifestyle in South China,” Ding said.

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According to Chinese law, a cult is an illegal organization that tries to control people by deifying the sect leader; deludes members under the guise of religion or in other names; and engages in activities that harm society.

According to interpretation, the judicial which will recent years, the show has also been broadcast live, while producers have worked to incorporate modern themes.

“New content has helped the show to keep up with societal developments and the latest fashions, but I still stick with traditional southern Chinese culture when I write the screenplays,” Ding said, adding that she will increase her interaction with the audience and solicit advice from viewers.

Lu Xiaoguang, the show’s director, said In-Laws, OutLaws has stayed truthful to life in Guangdong. take effect on Feb 1, thosewho use online chat rooms and social media platforms such as WeChat for cult-related activities may face imprisonment, as can those who print cult messages on bank notes.

Cultmemberswhohave foreign connections, recruit people in other areas, carry out cult activities at key festivals,

“The province attracted a large number of people from outside when it began to open to the outside world decades ago, and so many interesting stories have been created between Cantonese and those from elsewhere,” Lu said.

The program has helped launch the careers of several actors, including Liu Tao, who has gone on to star in several hit TV dramas. preach to minors or work as civil servants will be severely punished, the judicial interpretation stated.

Meanwhile, people who repent joining cults will be handled leniently. Those who were tricked or forced into joining a cult will be exempt from punishment.

In May, three Falun Gong cult followers were imprisoned by a court in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region for

Tan Tian, a professor at Jinan University in Guangzhou, said producers should better tap the potential for the long-running show’s success, such as through video games and themed shopping centers.

Although originally filmed in Cantonese, the series is translated into Mandarin and broadcast by stations nationwide. Its VCDs have also gone on sale in the United States, Singapore and Malaysia.

It has won several provincial and national awards and, since 2000, has helped Guangdong TV to attract advertising worth more than 2 billion yuan ($290.5 million). downloading Falun Gong materials from illegal websites and sending cult material to primary school students. They were sentenced to terms from one year to two and a half years.

China banned the cult in 1999, accusing the group of using religion to brainwash practitioners, extracting money from them, and even encouraging practitioners to set themselves alight.