Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

Culture and Related Industries refer to the aggregate of activities, providing the mass with culture goods, amusement goods and services. According to the characteristics of culture goods, amusement goods and services, they can be classified into two categories, or nonprofit cultural activities and profit cultural activities.

Culture and related industries is the important component of the tertiary industry. These are the derivative sector from the Industrial Classification of the National Economy and are composed of two categories of culture services and related cultural services.

Culture Services mainly refers to the news service, publishing and copyright services, radio, television, film services, art sand cultural services, Internet culture services, culture and leisure entertainment services, and other cultural services.

Related Cultural Services mainly include cultural stationery, equipment and related cultural products, and the sales of cultural stationery, equipment and related cultural products.

Non-culture and Related Industries refer to the other activities sponsored by the cultural sectors, which do not belong to the culture and related industries.

Arts Performance Troupes refer to the various professional performing arts groups, which sponsored by the cultural sectors or guided by the cultural society (approved by the cultural market administration, or registered and permitted with the relative certificate), including non-governmental troupes, such as drama troupes, dialect troupes, comedy troupes, children troupes, Opera troupes, puppetry troupes, Shadowgraph troupes, etc., comprehensive professional arts performance troupes. The mass amateur arts performance troupes are not included.

Arts Performance Places refer to the various sites for cultural activities, which sponsored by the cultural sectors or guided by the cultural society (approved by the cultural market administration, or registered and permitted with the relative certificate), with the facility of auditorium, stage, and lighting, and selling tickets in public. The theaters and rehearse sites which are affiliated to the cultural sectors without independent financial accounts which are open to the public should be covered independently.

Cultural Market Operating Units refer to the units dealing in culture and cultural services, which registered and permitted with the relative certificate by cultural market administration.

Radio Coverage of Population refers to the percentage of population, which can listen to one of central, provincial, city, prefecture, and county radio programs by wireless, cable, satellite and other technical means, in the surveying area, to national total population, according to Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the State Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television.

Television Coverage of Population refers to the percentage of population, which can watch one of central, provincial, city, prefecture, and county television programs by wireless, cable, satellite and other technical means, in the surveying area, to national total population, according to Statistical Standard and Method on Television and Radio Coverage of Population established by the State Administration of Broadcasting, Film and Television.

Cable Television Coverage of Household refers to the percentage of households, which can watch television by cable of radio and television network, to national total household.

National Comprehensive Archives refer to all archives institutions, which are directly conducted by the central and local levels archives administration, collecting and keeping various documents and materials by administrative regions or historical periods.