The Film Bureau, part of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, vets scripts, grants production licenses, controls studios and equipment and coordinates releases.
Given that documentary filmmaking is itself a competitive field, with its makers vying for grants, production money, festival slots, distribution deals, awards and audiences, it's a subject that is clearly near and dear to the documentarian heart.
Worldwide, renewable electricity projects are granted production support to ensure competitiveness.
If Apple is granted production under the Foreign Trade-Zone procedure it could be exempt from customs duty payments on the listed foreign-status materials/components used in export production.
Oil companies like Norway's DNO and Canada's Addax Petroleum have been granted production share licenses in Kurdistan, and DNO even announced on Wednesday that it had rejected a $700 million offer from "a large international company" for its license shares.
In deciding whether to grant a production order, judges are supposed to weigh the interest of the police in obtaining evidence with the public interest in a free press.
This is granted on production of a valid passport and various documents.
Google is putting $1m£766,00000) into funding grants and production resources to help YouTubers tackle social issues and encourage tolerance.
Current practice rewards innovative companies with patents, a temporary monopoly granting sole production rights to the innovator, he notes.
They're all filmed in Northern Ireland, encouraged by grants and production facilities made available as part of the post-Troubles reconstruction of the region.
