In 2022, China's cultural industry revenue increased by 1% year-on-year. Scale | Culture | China
According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on June 29th, China's cultural industry achieved a revenue of 16550.2 billion yuan in 2022, an increase of 169.8 billion yuan or 1% compared to the previous year.
With the deepening implementation of the national cultural digitization strategy, the rapid development of new cultural industries characterized by digitization, networking, and intelligence has become an important support for promoting the high-quality development of China's cultural industry. According to statistical data, in 2022, the 16 sub categories of industries with more obvious characteristics of new cultural formats achieved a revenue of 5010.6 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7% compared to the previous year, with a growth rate 5.7 percentage points faster than the entire cultural industry. The operating revenue of the cultural new industry accounted for 30.3% of the total operating revenue of the cultural industry, surpassing 30% for the first time, an increase of 1.6 percentage points from the previous year.
The cultural industry has achieved stable profit growth, and some performance indicators have improved. In 2022, China's cultural industry achieved a total profit of 127.07 billion yuan, an increase of 34.1 billion yuan or 2.8% compared to the previous year. Among them, cultural enterprises above designated size achieved a total profit of 937 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8% compared to the previous year; Cultural enterprises below designated size achieved a total profit of 333.7 billion yuan, an increase of 2.7% compared to the previous year. Some performance indicators have improved compared to the previous year. In 2022, the profit margin of China's cultural industry operating revenue was 7.7%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the previous year.
The strategic support role of technological innovation in the development of the cultural industry is gradually emerging, and the independent innovation ability of cultural enterprises is effectively enhanced. In 2022, cultural enterprises above designated size invested 152.9 billion yuan in research and experimental development, an increase of 6.4% compared to the previous year; The proportion of R&D expenses to operating revenue of cultural enterprises above designated size was 1.24%, an increase of 0.07 percentage points from the previous year. 460000 R&D personnel from cultural enterprises above designated size, an increase of 11.4% compared to the previous year; The proportion of employees in cultural enterprises above designated size is 5.8%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points from the previous year.