China News Service, July 31. According to the website of the National Bureau of Statistics, Xin Jia, a statistician from the Department of Social Sciences and Culture of the National Bureau of Statistics, interpreted the operating income data of cultural and related industrial enterprises above designated size in the first half of the year. Xin Jia said that in the first half of the year, the decline in operating income of cultural and related industry enterprises above designated size has significantly narrowed, and a positive trend has gradually emerged; in particular, the continuous and rapid growth of "Internet + culture" demonstrates the great resilience and development potential of new cultural businesses.

  Xin Jia pointed out that in the first half of the year, cultural and related industrial enterprises above designated size achieved operating income of 4,019.6 billion yuan, a decrease of 6.2% from the same period last year, and the rate of decline narrowed by 7.7 percentage points from the first quarter. Among the 9 major categories of cultural and related industries, news and information services grew by more than double digits, reaching 13.4%, an increase of 1.8 percentage points from the first quarter; the growth rate of creative design services changed from negative to positive, with a decrease of 2.5% from the first quarter Turning to an increase of 3.3%, the decline of the remaining seven industries narrowed by 7.2 to 10.3 percentage points from the first quarter, reflecting the gradual recovery of the production and operation of cultural enterprises.

  In the first half of the year, the "Internet + culture" new business model continued to rise against the trend, and online cultural consumption maintained rapid growth. From the perspective of sub-industries of culture and related industries, the 16 industry sub-categories with more obvious characteristics of new cultural business types achieved operating income of 1,293.9 billion yuan, an increase of 18.2% over the same period of the previous year, and the growth rate increased by 2.7 percentage points from the first quarter; accounting for more than scale The operating income of cultural and related industry enterprises accounted for 32.2%, an increase of 8.3 percentage points from the same period last year. Among them, Internet advertising services, other Internet information services, multimedia game animation and digital publishing software development, other cultural digital content services, manufacturing of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles for entertainment, and manufacturing of wearable intelligent cultural equipment all achieved double-digit operating income increase.

  Xin Jia said that in the next stage, with the coordinated progress of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, the effects of macroeconomic policies will further manifest, the economy will gradually recover, cultural consumer demand will be released, and the cultural market will continue to strengthen. The production and operation of cultural enterprises is expected to gradually improve.