China News Service, Beijing, October 30 (Reporter Wang Enbo) The National Bureau of Statistics of China announced on the 30th that in the first three quarters, China's cultural and related industry enterprises above designated size achieved operating income of 8,420.5 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), compared with the same period last year. An increase of 21.8%, an average increase of 10.0% in two years, 2.4 percentage points faster than the year-on-year growth rate in the first three quarters of 2019.

  Zhang Peng, a senior statistician from the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities of the National Bureau of Statistics, said that although the development of Chinese cultural enterprises has been affected by factors such as the superimposition of epidemics and floods in some areas since the beginning of this year, policies and measures to help enterprises have been implemented effectively, and cultural and related industries have maintained rapid growth. , The foundation of recovery is consolidated.

  Specifically, the role of "ballast stone" in the core area of ​​culture is prominent.

In the first three quarters, the operating income of cultural core areas was 5191.1 billion yuan, an increase of 22.9% over the same period of the previous year, and an average increase of 11.7% in the two years, which was 0.9 percentage points higher than the year-on-year growth rate in the first three quarters of 2019; it accounted for 61.6 percent of cultural enterprise operating income. %, 0.6% higher than the same period last year.

  Among them, three industries, including news information services, creative design services, and content creation and production, have two-year average growth rates exceeding double digits, 19.5%, 16.3%, and 11.1% respectively; however, cultural, entertainment and leisure services are more affected by the epidemic. The annual average decline is 9.9%.

  Zhang Peng also pointed out that with the in-depth implementation of China's cultural industry digital strategy, the leading role of new cultural business formats represented by live video broadcasting, creative advertising, and smart entertainment equipment manufacturing has continued to increase.

  In the first three quarters, the 16 industry sub-categories with obvious characteristics of new cultural business types achieved operating income of 2832.2 billion yuan, an increase of 26.1% over the same period of the previous year; an average increase of 24.0% in two years, 14.0% higher than the average level of all cultural enterprises; The contribution of cultural enterprises to the growth of operating income reached 38.9%, an increase of 6.1 and 3.4 percentage points over the first quarter and the first half of the year, respectively.

  From a regional perspective, the construction of cultural industry clusters in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao regions has continued to advance, which has strongly promoted the development of related regional cultural industries.

In the first three quarters, the eastern region achieved operating income of 6471.5 billion yuan, an increase of 22.5% over the same period of the previous year, an average increase of 10.4% in two years, 0.4% higher than the average level of all cultural enterprises; the proportion of the country was 76.9%, compared with the previous year An increase of 0.5% over the same period.

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