Over 700 Entertainment Enterprises Closed in China in Political Crackdown This Year

Chinese actress Zhao Wei, member of the jury of the 73rd Venice Film Festival poses during a photocall, on August 31, 2016 at Venice Lido. TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images

Chinese leader Xi Jinping is clamping down on the entertainment industry. More than 700 talent agencies in China have been shut down so far this year.

According to commentators in Taiwan and China, the entertainment industry has close ties to CCP officials, and the showbiz storm reflects an unusually fierce factional struggle within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).