The Business Income of Cultural and Related Industry Enterprises Above Designated Size Increased by 7.6 percent in the First Three Quarters of 2019

According to the survey of 56,000 cultural and related industry enterprises nationwide, in the first three quarters of 2019, the above-mentioned enterprises achieved the business income of 6,218.7 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6 percent [1] compared with the same period of last year on a comparable basis (see Note VI for details), and the overall growth continued to be stable and rapid.

In terms of industry category, 8 sectors of the 9 industries of culture and related industries had achieved operating growth. Among them, there were 3 industries with a growth rate of over 10 percent, namely, 465.6 billion yuan of news information service revenue, an increase of 22.4 percent over the same period last year, 825.6 billion yuan of creative design services, an increase of 12.2 percent, and 30.8 billion yuan of cultural investment and operation, an increase of 12.3 percent.

In terms of industrial type, the cultural manufacturing industry had a revenue of 2,656.9 billion yuan, an increase of 4.2 percent over the same period last year. The business income in cultural wholesale and retail trade achieved 998.3 billion yuan, an increase of 5.4 percent, and that of cultural service industry reached 2,563.6 billion yuan, an increase of 12.4 percent.

In terms of sub sectors, the business income of cultural core areas [2] was 3,706.5 billion yuan, up by 10.8 percent over the same period of last year; and that of cultural related areas was 2,512.2 billion yuan, up by 3.3 percent.

In terms of regions, cultural and related industrial enterprises above designated size in the eastern region achieved business income of 4,701.7 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7 percent over the same period of last year, accounting for 75.6 percent of the national total; those in the central, western and northeast regions were 884.1, 572.7 and 60.2 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 9.4 and 13.8 and a decrease of 1.2 percent, accounting for 14.2, 9.2 and 1.0 percent of the national total.

Note: [1] Refers to nominal growth, excluding price factor.

[2] The core areas of culture include news and information services, content creation and production, creative design services, cultural transmission channels, cultural investment and operation, cultural entertainment and leisure services, and other 6 industries. Cultural related fields include 3 industries, such as cultural auxiliary production and intermediary services, cultural equipment production, and cultural consumption terminal production.

Business Income of Cultural and Related Industry Enterprises Above Designated Size in the First Three Quarters of 2019

Annotations:

I. Explanatory Notes:

Culture and Related Industries refer to the collection of production activities that provide cultural products and cultural related products for the public. According to the Classification of Culture and Related Industries (2018), culture and related industries include nine categories: news and information services, content creation and production, creative design services, cultural communication channels, cultural investment and operation, cultural entertainment and leisure services, cultural auxiliary production and intermediary services, cultural equipment production and cultural consumption terminal production.

Business Income refers to the sum of "main business income" and "other business income".

II. Statistical Coverage

The statistical scope of culture and related industries above designated size is within the scope of industries specified in Classification of Culture and Related Industries (2018), the industrial enterprises with annual main business income of 20 million yuan or above, the wholesale enterprises with annual main business income of 20 million yuan or above or the retail enterprises with main business income of 5 million yuan or above, and the service enterprises with the number of employees 50 or above or annual business income of 10 million yuan or more, in which, the annual business income of culture and entertainment service industry is 5 million yuan or more.

III. Survey Methods

The cultural and related industrial legal entities above designated size shall be identified and summarized every quarter according to the data obtained from the comprehensive survey of industrial enterprises above designated size, wholesale and retail enterprises above designated size and service enterprises above designated size on the national statistical online direct reporting platform.

IV. Industry Classification Standard

The Classification of Culture and Related Industries (2018) was implemented, please refer to http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjgz/tzgb/201804/t20180423_1595390.html.

V. Division on Eastern, Central, Western and Northeastern Regions

Eastern region includes Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong, and Hainan. Central region includes Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, and Hunan. Western region includes Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang. Northeastern region includes Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang.

VI. In the first three quarters of 2019, the business income of cultural and related industry enterprises above designated size is different from the previous data published in the first three quarters of 2018. The main reasons are: (1) the number of enterprises above designated size has changed. In 2019, some enterprises will be included in the investigation scope if they reach the above designated size, some enterprises will withdraw from the investigation scope because of the smaller scale, and some factors such as newly operating enterprises, bankruptcy, changes in the injection (hanging) and sale enterprises, and statistics and law enforcement to remove false enterprises, etc. will change the number of enterprises above the designated size. According to the results of the fourth national economic census, in the first three quarters of 2019, the number of enterprises surveyed in culture and related industries was 56,000, a decrease of 3,198 over the same period last year. Accordingly, according to the standard of Classification of Culture and Related Industries (2018), the business income of cultural and related industry enterprises above designated size was adjusted to 5,777.4 billion yuan in the first three quarters of 2018. (2) strengthen the statistical law enforcement, clear up the enterprises that do not meet the requirements above the designated size and the false data filled in during the inspection of statistical law enforcement, and amend the relevant base numbers according to the regulations.