China’s culture sector, related businesses grow 8.2% year-on-year in 2018
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China's culture sector and related businesses continued to grow rapidly last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday.
The total revenue of the culture sector and related businesses hit 8.93 trillion yuan (about 1.33 trillion U.S. dollars), up 8.2 percent year-on-year, according to an NBS survey over 60,000 enterprises of scale in China.
Specifically, seven of the nine culture-related sectors saw their business revenues rise last year, with three of them registering double-digit growth, the NBS said.
Silk figurines on display at the 13th China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo. /VCG Photo

Silk figurines on display at the 13th China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo. /VCG Photo

News and information services boasted the fastest growth in 2018 with total revenue of 809.9 billion yuan (120.73 billion U.S. dollars), rising 24 percent from the previous year.
Meanwhile, revenue of creative design services and cultural transmission amounted to 1.11 trillion yuan (170 billion U.S. dollars) and 1.02 trillion yuan (150 billion U.S. dollars) respectively, up 16.5 percent and 12 percent, data from the NBS showed.
A coffee house in the Forbidden City has attracted many young people. /VCG Photo

A coffee house in the Forbidden City has attracted many young people. /VCG Photo

Eastern China remained the sectors' largest revenue contributor by earning 6.87 trillion yuan (1.02 trillion U.S. dollars), accounting for 77 percent of the total revenue last year.
Culture sectors in western China saw a 12.2-percent year-on-year growth, the fastest nationwide, the NBS said.
(Cover image: Cultural creative products on display at the 13th China Beijing International Cultural and Creative Industry Expo in Beijing, China in October 2018. /VCG Photo)
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency