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This photo taken on January 30, 2019 shows 24-year-old Lu Qi from Hunan province posing for a portrait at Hengdian World Studios where he works as an extra, in Dongyang in China's eastern Zhejiang province. - Fed up with the drudgery of his sales job in southern China, Lu Qi quit and travelled a thousand kilometres north to one of the country's biggest film studio complexes with hopes of making it in movies.That remains a work in progress for Lu and thousands like him who eke out precarious livings as extras at Hengdian World Studios. But just as movie-goers flock to cinemas to escape reality, so does Hengdian's army of extras. (Photo by MATTHEW KNIGHT / AFP) / TO GO WITH: China-film-entertainment, FEATURE by Kelly Wang (Photo credit should read MATTHEW KNIGHT/AFP/Getty Images)

This photo taken on January 30, 2019 shows 24-year-old Lu Qi from Hunan province posing for a portrait at Hengdian World Studios where he works as an extra, in Dongyang in China's eastern Zhejiang province. - Fed up with the drudgery of his sales job in southern China, Lu Qi quit and travelled a thousand kilometres north to one of the country's biggest film studio complexes with hopes of making it in movies.That remains a work in progress for Lu and thousands like him who eke out precarious livings as extras at Hengdian World Studios. But just as movie-goers flock to cinemas to escape reality, so does Hengdian's army of extras. (Photo by MATTHEW KNIGHT / AFP) / TO GO WITH: China-film-entertainment, FEATURE by Kelly Wang (Photo credit should read MATTHEW KNIGHT/AFP/Getty Images)
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