Revenue at 83,000 major cultural and related enterprises in China totalled 10.821 trillion yuan in January–September 2026, up 4.3% from the same period a year earlier on a comparable basis, the National Bureau of Statistics of China said.
Revenue in 16 sectors with prominent features of new cultural formats reached 5.3827 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.9%. That was 4.6 percentage points faster than the growth rate for all major cultural enterprises.
Cultural services revenue rose 7.3% to 6.5697 trillion yuan. Revenue in cultural manufacturing fell 0.2% to 2.6744 trillion yuan, while wholesale and retail revenue declined 0.1% to 1.5769 trillion yuan.
