Once the thriving capital of Imperial China, the city of Datong now lies in near ruins. Not only is it the most polluted city in the country, it is also crippled by decrepit infrastructure and even shakier economic prospects. But Mayor Geng Yanbo plans to change all that, announcing a bold, new plan to return Datong to its former glory, the cultural haven it was some 1,600 years ago. Such declarations, however, come at a devastatingly high cost. Thousands of homes are to be bulldozed, and a half-million of its residents (30 percent of Datong's total population) will be relocated under his watch. Whether he succeeds depends entirely on his ability to calm swarms of furious workers and an increasingly perturbed ruling elite. The Chinese Mayor captures, with remarkable access, a man and, by extension, a country leaping frantically into an increasingly unstable future.
The Chinese Mayor has generally received positive reviews.
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The Chinese Mayor was released in 2015 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 2 reviews, giving The Chinese Mayor (2015) an average rating of 70%.
With a score of 70%, The Chinese Mayor is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2015, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2015 with similar scores include films like The Danish Girl and The Stanford Prison Experiment.
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