CCTV News: Pan Xuhua, statistician of the Social Science and Culture Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, interprets data on national cultural and related industries and enterprises above designated size in the first half of 2025.

In the first half of the year, all regions and departments conscientiously implemented the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, continuously optimized the cultural consumption market environment, and continuously improved the supply capacity of cultural products and cultural services. The production and operation of cultural enterprises grew steadily and rapidly, the cultural service industry played a strong supporting role, the new cultural industry developed rapidly, and the profitability of cultural enterprises continued to improve.

The operating income of cultural enterprises above a certain scale has grown steadily and rapidly. In the first half of the year, the national cultural and related industrial enterprises (hereinafter referred to as "cultural enterprises") achieved operating income of 7129.2 billion yuan, an increase of 7.4% over the same period last year, and the growth rate was 1.2 percentage points faster than the first quarter. Among them, the core cultural sector achieved operating income of 484.45 billion yuan, an increase of 10.0% over the same period last year, and the growth rate was 2.9 percentage points faster than the first quarter; the operating income of three major industries, including content creation and production, creative design services, and news information services, achieved double-digit growth, with growth rates of 11.8%, 11.8% and 10.8% respectively.

The cultural service industry plays a strong supporting role. In the first half of the year, the cultural service industry achieved operating income of 3921.8 billion yuan, an increase of 10.7% over the same period last year, and the growth rate was 1.0 percentage points faster than the first quarter. The proportion of operating income of cultural service enterprises in scale accounted for 55.0% of cultural enterprises above scale, an increase of 1.6 percentage points over the same period last year. The contribution rate to the growth of operating income of all cultural enterprises above scale was 77.0%, driving the growth of all cultural enterprises above scale by 5.7 percentage points. Cultural manufacturing, cultural wholesale and retail industries achieved operating income of 1994.4 billion yuan and 1213 billion yuan, respectively, an increase of 3.1% and 4.6% respectively over the same period last year, with growth rates of 1.5 and 1.3 percentage points faster than the first quarter, respectively.

New cultural industry is developing rapidly. In the first half of the year, the 16 industries with relatively obvious characteristics of new cultural formats achieved operating income of 315.64 billion yuan, an increase of 13.6% over the same period last year, 6.2 percentage points faster than all cultural enterprises above the scale. The contribution rate of the operating income of new cultural formats to the growth of all cultural enterprises above the scale was 76.8%. Among them, the operating income of five industries, including intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing for entertainment, other cultural digital content services, other cultural arts industries, Internet advertising services, and digital publishing, grew at a higher year-on-year, of 42.8%, 22.9%, 20.3%, 19.5% and 16.3% respectively.

The profitability of cultural enterprises continues to improve. In the first half of the year, cultural enterprises above designated size achieved a total profit of 629.8 billion yuan, an increase of 19.3% over the same period last year. The operating income profit margin was 8.83%, an increase of 0.88 percentage points from the same period last year. Judging from the 43 industry categories, 38 industries achieved profitability. Among them, three industries, including digital content services, Internet information services, information service terminal manufacturing and sales, have a significant driving effect on the total profits of cultural enterprises above a certain scale.