The plays will be screened by the UK-based 'Royal Shakespeare Company'.
"Live from Stratford-upon-Avon," a collaboration between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Picturehouse Entertainment since 2013, was launched in China today.
Directed by Gregory Doran, Shakespeare's four plays Richard II, Henry IV Part I and Part II and Henry V will be presented from May to October in China.
The Royal Shakespeare Company will also work with Chinese playwrights and dramatists on new translations to help the works of Shakespeare reach ordinary Chinese people, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Shakespeare, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564 and he died there on April 23, 1616.