What have you seen? Maybe you and I are looking at different things.

When you say 'very poor in acting, directing, and producing', I just wonder what you're watching.

China takes all of these things very seriously.

Productions for dramas are like this.

Approximately two years before the airing date. Big budget productions might take up 3 to 4 years to prepare.

1.The script is written.
2.The directors, producers, and screenwriters scout talents and have casting calls. Actors and actresses actively pursue these roles instead of waiting for their agency to say, 'Go and try.'
3.Costume fittings and styling is done to see which candidates best fit the roles.
4.Pre-production photography commences.Cast confirmed. If the drama has started filming midway and the actor is not suitable for the role, there'll be a casting change. Yes, they do it.
5.Filming commences.Production stills released at the same time. Filming usually takes anywhere from 8 months to 1 year for a 40 episode drama.
40 episodes and above take up to 2 years.
6.Post-production, editing, music.. Promotions.
7.Pre-broadcast promotions, promotions during broadcasting period, interviews, TV appearances, write ups,

Let me tell you, there is no other country in Asia who takes acting, filming, cinematography and production of films and dramas more seriously than China?

Every Chinese actor and actress or talent based in China takes up 3 to 6 dramas each year if they're focusing on dramas.
If it's films, they do about 3 films each year. With each film taking up about 3 to 4 months, sometimes 5 or 6 months.

Have you seen Zhang Jizhong's productions? The Huang Xiaoming dramas, the Zhao Wei dramas, Yang Mi's projects,
Hu Ge?

Have you seen Shanghai Bund 2007? That was awesome.
Have you seen their period dramas?

China has 3 internationally famous schools just for the arts of filming, acting, directing, and cinematography.

Beijing Film Academy trained Huang Xiaoming, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Yang Mi and many others

Chen Kun. Bejing Film Academy.
Dramas :
1.The Story of a Noble Family
2.C'est La Vie, Mon Cherie
3.Remembrance of Dreams Past
Films :
1.Balzac and the Little Seamstress
2.Baober in Love
3.The Knot

Zhao Wei. Beijing Film Academy.
Dramas :
1.Huan Zhu Ge Ge 1 & 2
2.Romance in the Rain
3.Moment in Peking
Films :
1.Penitentiary Angel
2.Chinese Odyssey 2002
3.The Longest Night in Shanghai
4.Red Cliff

Huang Xiaoming.Beijing Film Academy
Dramas :
1.Da Han Tian Zi/Emperor of the Great Han Dynasty
2.Return of the Condor Heroes 2006
3.Shanghai Bund 2007
Films :
1.The Message
2.The Banquet
3.Flirting Scholar 2

Shui Ling. Beijing Film Academy
Dramas :
1.Tears in Heaven
2.Half Life Fate
3.Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (There is an award winning film of the same title starring Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi)
Films :
1.Seven Nights
2.Words of My Sister

Yang Mi. Beijing Film Academy.
Dramas :
1.Return of the Condor Heroes 2006
2.Wang Zhao Jun
3.Chinese Paladin 3
4.Detective Di Renjie

Films :
1.Beijing Fairytale
2.Empires of the Deep
3.Men (The Door)

Zhang Meng of Beijing Film Academy has done excellent work Heaven
Zhang Yimou excellent director from BFA has directed House of Flying Daggers, Raise the Red Lantern, The Road Home.
His fellow graduate, Chen Kaige, did Farewell, My Concubine. These are films.
Central Academy of Drama trained Zhang Ziyi of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, 2046, House of Flying Daggers, Memoirs of a Geisha. Tang Wei of Lust, Caution.
Zhang Ziyi hasn't done a lot of dramas.

Lu Yi.Shanghai Theater Academy
Dramas
1.Three Kingdoms
2.Su Dong Po
3.Eight Heroes
Films
1.A Time to Love
2.Jasmine Women
3.Seven Swords

Nie Yuan. Shanghai Theater Academy
Dramas
1.A Chinese Ghost Story.
2.Three Kingdoms
3.Water Margin (in production)
4.Journey to the West (in production)

Chen Jian Bin
Dramas
1.Three Kingdoms (he plays Cao Cao)
2.Concern
3.I'll Never Forgive
Films
1.Big City Small Issues
2.Confucius
3.There Are 100 Thieves in This World

Fan Bingbing. Shanghai Theater Academy
Dramas
1.The Legend and the Hero
2.Rouge Snow
3.Qin Shi Huang, The First Emperor

Films :
1.Lost in Beijing
2.Stretch
3.A Battle of Wits

Li Yapeng
Dramas
1.Anyone Would Say I'm in Love with You
2.The Beach
3.Legend of the Condor Heroes 2003
Films
1.Shanghai Story
2.The Days of Instant Noodles
3.The Longest Rainbow

He Zhuoyan.Hangzhou Arts School.
Dramas :
1.Royal Tramp 2007
2.Yi Tian Tu Long Ji 2009
3.Journey to the West (airing 2011/2012, depending on how long production takes)

Zhou Xun. Zhejiang School of Art.
Dramas :
1.Legend of the Condor Heroes 2003
2.The Orange is Ripe

Films :
1.Balzac and the Little Seamstress
2.Perhaps Love
3.Painted Skin

Dai Chun Rong
Dramas
1.Huan Zhu Ge Ge 1 & 2
2.Schemes of a Beauty (she was cold, conniving and intelligent in this drama)
3.Strange Hero Yi Zhi Mei (Iljimae as you guys know was made famous by Lee Jun Ki and Jung Il Woo but he was actually a Chinese hero.The Chinese are making this drama based on the legendary hero.)

Directors

Gao Xixi. Beijing Film Academy. Majored in Directing
Dramas
1.Shanghai Bund 2007
2.Three Kingdoms
3.Bliss is Like a Flower
Films
1.A Just Heart
2.Great Desert

Lee Guo Li
Dramas
1.Chinese Paladin 3
2.Shao Nian Yang Jia Jiang

Yu Min
Dramas
1.Return of the Condor Heroes 2006 (co-directed with Zhao Jian)
2.Legend of the Condor Heroes 2003 (co-directed with Zhao Jian
3.Yi Tian Tu Long Ji 2009/Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre 2009 (co-directed with Zhao Jian)

Huang Jianzhong
Dramas
1.Smiling Proud Wanderer
2.Hong Niang
3.The Queens (beautifully shot)
Films
1.Little Blossom
2.A Good Lady
3.Celebrating New Year

It does seem like my statements are pro-Chinese. I live in Malaysia and am Chinese, so I'm Malaysian Chinese. I was educated in Chinese for six years but never really learned how to appreciate it until I was in my teens.

The reason why it seems like I'm pro-Chinese is that I have a deeper understanding of Chinese culture than Korean or Japanese culture or other Asian cultures.

I was not raised in Korea or Japan, I can't speak the languages, I can only understand the simple simple words thanks to my younger sister who's a Korean and Japanese fanatic. She can speak and write in both languages and is even taking Japanese lingusitics examinations and she's currently teaching a Korean student English.

Therefore, when people talk about Korean or Japanese culture, I can only sit back and listen or tell them what I've learned about their cultures from their dramas and films and the news. Also, Japanese and Koreans are in some ways descended from the Chinese, so in many ways our values are similar. That's the only thing I understand about Koreans and Japanese well, that we share pretty much the same values in life.

no actually thats pretty much right, Lee Joon Gi. That is basically how you would pronounce it in korean.

it depends which style of romanization they follow, i guess. haha

Wow! You are really into this look-alikes comparison thing! And I do agree with many of your look alikes.

But I think posting all this on a korean drama blog isn't really a wise idea, since most people here will either just ignore or criticise your opinions. Just my two cents.
Your efforts for defending mainland entertainment and its actors are greatly appreciated though, I love mainland dramas just as much as watching korean dramas! Especially nowadays since there's a lot of modern mainland dramas on the market, so it's not all historical, etc :D