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.


An eye mask sold by the Palace Museum [Photo/gugong1925.world.taobao.com]


The total revenue of the culture sector and related businesses hit 8.93 trillion yuan (about $1.33 trillion), 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.


News and information services boasted the fastest growth in 2018 with total revenue of 809.9 billion yuan ($120.73 billion), rising 24 percent from the previous year.


Meanwhile, revenue of creative design services and cultural transmission amounted to 1.11 trillion yuan ($170 billion) and 1.02 trillion yuan ($150 billion) respectively, up 16.5 percent and 12 percent, data from the NBS showed.


Eastern China remained the sectors' largest revenue contributor by earning 6.87 trillion yuan ($1.02 trillion), 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.


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