Guests attend the opening ceremony of "Beijing Movie Night" event in Mumbai, India, Oct. 17, 2018. (Xinhua/Stringer)

MUMBAI, Oct. 18 (Xinhua) -- Beijing Film Night has been held at the National Center for Performing Art in Mumbai, an initiative to boost wider cultural exchanges between China and India.

The event was jointly organized by Chinese Consulate-General in Mumbai and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.

Du Feijin, head of the publicity department of Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, said at the event Wednesday that the films produced in Beijing and Mumbai are culturally close to each other, adding that as the two cities become closer due to the films, both cities will continuously deepen film cooperation and people-to-people exchanges which have reached a new height.

Movie people from both cities have exchanged views at the event on topics such as co-production, exhibition cooperation, personnel training, film techniques and intellectual property protection.

The Beijing Film Night helmed by the Beijing municipal government is a new initiative aimed to build a platform for cultural exchanges to promote comprehensive co-operation involving film institutes, artists and scholars from the two countries.

Chinese Consul General in Mumbai Tang Guocai and Chief Information Commissioner of Maharashtra Sumit Mullick also attended the event.