The Business Income of Cultural and Related Industries Above Designated Size Decreased by 6.2 Percent in the First Half Year of 2020

With the continuous improvement of epidemic prevention and control situation and the continuous promotion of returning to work and production, the production and operation of cultural enterprises in China are gradually improving. According to the survey of 59,000 cultural and related industry enterprises above designated size in China, in the first half of the year, the above-mentioned enterprises realized an operating revenue of 4,019.6 billion yuan, which was 6.2 percent [1] lower than that of the same period of last year based on comparable caliber (see note VI for details), and the decline rate was 7.7 percentage points narrower than that of the first quarter. The operating revenue of 16 industry sub categories [2] with obvious characteristics of new cultural industry was 1,293.9 billion yuan, an increase of 18.2 percent.

In terms of industry category, among the nine industries of culture and related industries, the business income of news and information services reached 399.6 billion yuan, an increase of 13.4 percent year-on-year, and maintained a rapid growth; that of creative design service was 625 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth of 3.3 percent; although the other seven industries were still declining year on year, the decline rate was significantly narrowed than that in the first quarter.

In terms of industry types, the operating income of cultural manufacturing industry was 1,538.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 9.5 percent, and the decline rate was 9.0 percentage points lower than that in the first quarter; that of cultural wholesale and retail industry was 621.6 billion yuan, with a decrease of 17.7 percent, and the decrease rate narrowed 9.6 percentage points; that of cultural service industry was 1,859.8 billion yuan, with a growth rate of 1.7 percent from a 2.9 percent drop in the first quarter.

In terms of sectors, the operating revenue of cultural core areas [3] was 2,471.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 4.0 percent, a decrease of 6.7 percentage points compared with the first quarter; that of cultural related fields reached 1,548 billion yuan, with a decrease of 9.4 percent and a decrease rate of 9.0 percentage points narrower.

In terms of regions, the eastern region achieved 3,046 billion yuan of operating revenue, a year-on-year decrease of 6.3 percent, and the decline rate was 7.6 percentage points lower than that in the first quarter; that of the central, western and northeast regions were 573, 365.3 and 35.3 billion yuan, respectively down 6.7, 2.4 and 19.8 percent, with a decrease rate of 8.6, 7.2 and 5.0 percentage points.

Notes:

[1] It refers to nominal growth, without deducting the price factor.

[2] The 16 industries with obvious characteristics of the new format are: Radio and television integrated broadcast control, Internet search service, other Internet information services, digital publishing, other cultural and art industries, animation, game digital content services, Internet game services, multimedia, game animation and digital publishing software development, value-added telecommunication cultural services, other cultural digital content services, Internet advertising service, Internet culture and entertainment platform, copyright and culture software service, intelligent UAV manufacturing for entertainment, wearable intelligent cultural equipment manufacturing, and other intelligent cultural consumer equipment manufacturing.

[3] The core areas of culture include six industries: news and information services, content creation and production, creative design services, cultural communication channels, cultural investment and operation, cultural entertainment and leisure services, and cultural related fields include three industries: 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 Half Year of 2020

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 coverage of cultural and related industries above designated size is 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 of 50 or above or the annual business income of 10 million yuan or above, of which, the annual business income of culture and entertainment service industry is 5 million or more.

III. Survey Method

Every quarter, the cultural and related industrial legal entities above designated size shall be identified and summarized 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

Implement the classification of culture and related industries (2018), 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, Jilin, Heilongjiang, 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. There is a difference between the operating revenue of cultural and related industries enterprises above designated size in the first quarter of 2020 and the previously published data in the first quarter of 2019. The main reasons are: (1) the number of enterprises above designated size has changed. In the first quarter of 2020, some enterprises will be included in the investigation scope if they reach the above scale standard, some enterprises will withdraw from the investigation scope because of the smaller scale, and some factors such as newly built and put into operation enterprises, bankruptcy, changes in the cancelled (revoked) enterprises, and statistics and law enforcement to remove false enterprises, etc. will change the number of enterprises above the designated size. In the first quarter of 2020, the number of cultural and related industry survey enterprises above designated size nationwide was 59,000, an increase of 3,396 over the previous year. According to the comparable approach, the operating revenue of cultural and related industry enterprises above designated size in the first quarter of 2019 was 1,960.6 billion yuan. （2） We strengthened statistical law enforcement, cleaned up the enterprises that did not meet the requirements above the scale and the false data filled in during the inspection of statistical law enforcement, and revised the relevant base number according to the regulations.