In 2025, China's cultural and related industries (hereinafter referred to as "cultural industries") will achieve a new historical high of 20825.4 billion yuan in operating revenue, an increase of 8.8% over the previous year.
Data shows that the operating income of the nine major industries in the cultural industry has increased comprehensively. Among them, the operating income of four industries including creative design services, content creation and production, news and information services, and cultural entertainment and leisure services achieved double-digit growth, with increases of 13.2%, 12.4%, 12.3%, and 10.7% respectively compared to the previous year; The operating income of five industries, including cultural equipment production, cultural dissemination channels, cultural investment and operation, cultural auxiliary production and intermediary services, and cultural consumption terminal production, increased by 8.0%, 7.7%, 3.1%, 2.7%, and 2.5% respectively compared to the previous year.
The profitability of the cultural industry is steadily improving. In 2025, China's cultural industry will achieve a total profit of 1903.4 billion yuan, an increase of 7.3% over the previous year. The profit margin of cultural industry operating income is 9.1%; The per capita operating income and total per capita profit were 963000 yuan and 88000 yuan, respectively, an increase of 94000 yuan and 7000 yuan from the previous year.
The cultural new industry plays a leading role. In 2025, the 16 sub industries with obvious characteristics of new cultural formats will achieve a revenue of 766.51 billion yuan, an increase of 15.1% over the previous year, which is 6.3 percentage points faster than the overall cultural industry.
In addition, research and development investment in the cultural industry has grown rapidly. In 2025, cultural enterprises above designated size will invest 182 billion yuan in research and experimental development (R&D), an increase of 12.1% over the previous year.