On June 3, Chinese media reported that the film "Tang Hai Truyen" by Truong Tinh Nghi and Tieu Chien was certified by Douyin as the top-grossing TV series of 2025.
To reach this milestone, the film "Tang Hai Truyen" had more than 10 billion views according to the theme on Douyin. The film's real-time temperature has surpassed 340 million.
Youku - a platform that is near the bottom of the list of active users, thanks to "Tang Hai Truyen" has risen to dominate the market share of Chinese TV series.
Accordingly, this platform accounts for 33.6% of Van Hop views, more than 35% of Khoc Van views, far surpassing competitors on strong platforms such as Tencent, Iqiyi, Mango TV...
The film's Dengta-based views have also broken over 1 billion, with daily views on Van Hop expected to peak at a new peak of 68 million.
Nhan Dan newspaper and China Central Television - 2 Chinese language agencies have continuously published articles praising "Tang Hai Truyen".
The film is also currently receiving many compliments from Taiwanese (Chinese) audiences.
China Central Television confirmed that "Tang Hai Truyen" has reached more than 115 million television viewers. The film broke the historical temperature record of the Youku platform with 10,451.
Although it has only been shown for 15 days, the film has entered the top 2 films that have attracted the strongest new members to the Youku platform in the past year.
The film also reached the top 1 Maoyan temperature among films shown in May, top 1 temperature on the Douyin platform among films currently shown.
As the Chinese film with the highest number of votes with a score of 9.5 on IMDB and more than 13,000 votes, the film ranked No. 1 before was "Tran Tinh Lenh" also by Xiao Zhan.
The film review round on the Douyin platform reached more than 517 thousand votes, of which more than 500 thousand were 5-star reviews.
Chinese media evaluated with this achievement, "Tang Hai Truyen" by Xiao Zhan has opened a new standard for Chinese cinema in 2025. Many films released later will find it difficult to surpass this achievement.
