On February 6, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Statistics (BBS) released data that in 2024, legal entities in the city's cultural and related industries above designated size realized a total business revenue of CNY 2.30226 trillion, up by 6.6 percent year-on-year. Within this total, cultural enterprises above the designated size achieved operating revenues of CNY 2.25124 trillion, up by 6.7 percent year-on-year.

In terms of sectors, the core areas of culture realized a total business revenue of CNY 2.09515 trillion, an increase of 7.6 percent year-on-year. The core areas of culture consist of six industries such as news information service, content creation and production, creative design services, cultural communication/transmission channels, cultural investment and operation, and cultural entertainment and leisure services.

The cultural related fields achieved business revenues of CNY 207.11 billion, down by 2.5 percent over the previous year. The cultural related fields consist of three industries such as cultural auxiliary production and intermediary service, cultural equipment production, and cultural consumption terminal production.

In 2024, the enterprises with new cultural business forms in Beijing have realized operating revenues of CNY 1.59069 trillion, an increase of 11.1 percent over the previous year. These enterprises' revenue accounts for 70.7 percent of the total revenue generated by all cultural enterprises in the city. New cultural business forms comprise 16 distinctive industry subcategories, including internet search service, digital publishing, animation and game digital content services, and internet game services.

(Source: Beijing Daily)