National Bureau of Statistics: The operating income and profits of cultural enterprises in the first three quarters have grown rapidly, achieving new progress in the high-quality development of the cultural industry.

National Bureau of Statistics, Pan Xuhua, a statistician from the Social Science and Culture Department, interpreted the data of cultural and related industry enterprises above a certain scale nationwide in the first three quarters of 2025. The interpretation states that in the first three quarters, various regions and departments have implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, continuously improved the cultural industry system and market system, continuously improved cultural and economic policies, increased financial and fiscal support, promoted the implementation of major cultural industry projects, and maintained rapid growth in cultural enterprise production, achieving new progress in the high-quality development of the cultural industry. The original text is as follows: Cultural enterprise operating income and profits increase rapidly in the first three quarters - Pan Xuhua, a statistician from the Social Science and Culture Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, interprets the data of national cultural and related industry enterprises above a certain scale in the first three quarters of 2025. In the first three quarters, various regions and departments have implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, continuously improved the cultural industry system and market system, continuously improved cultural and economic policies, increased financial and fiscal support, promoted the implementation of major cultural industry projects, and maintained rapid growth in cultural enterprise production, achieving new progress in the high-quality development of the cultural industry. The operating income of cultural enterprises above a certain scale maintains rapid growth. In the first three quarters, the operating income of national cultural and related industry enterprises above a certain scale (hereinafter referred to as "cultural enterprises") reached 10,958.9 billion yuan, an increase of 7.9% from the same period of the previous year, which was 0.5 percentage points faster than the first half of the year. Among them, the operating income of the core cultural fields reached 7,421.6 billion yuan, an increase of 11.5% from the same period of the previous year, which was 1.5 percentage points faster than the first half of the year. The operating income of three major categories of industries, such as content creation production, creative design services, and news information services, achieved double-digit growth, with growth rates of 14.0%, 13.2%, and 11.6% respectively. The driving effect of cultural service industry is significant. In the first three quarters, the cultural service industry achieved operating income of 6,062.6 billion yuan, an increase of 11.9% over the same period of the previous year, which was 1.2 percentage points faster than the first half of the year. The proportion of operating income of cultural service industry enterprises in cultural enterprises above a certain scale was 55.3%, an increase of 1.9 percentage points from the same period of the previous year. The contribution rate of cultural service industry enterprises to the growth of operating income of cultural enterprises above a certain scale was 79.7%, driving the growth of operating income of cultural enterprises above a certain scale by 6.3 percentage points. The cultural manufacturing industry and cultural wholesale and retail industry achieved operating income of 3,076.6 billion yuan and 1,819.7 billion yuan respectively, an increase of 2.3% and 5.5% from the same period of the previous year. The continue rapid development of cultural new format industries. In the first three quarters, 16 industry sub-categories with obvious characteristics of cultural new formats achieved operating income of 4,886.0 billion yuan, an increase of 14.1% from the same period of the previous year, 6.2 percentage points faster than cultural enterprises above a certain scale. The contribution rate of cultural new format industries to the growth of operating income of cultural enterprises above a certain scale was 74.7%, driving the growth of operating income of cultural enterprises above a certain scale by 5.9 percentage points. Among them, five industry sub-categories had higher year-on-year growth rates in operating income, including entertainment intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing, other cultural digital content services, Internet advertising services, other cultural and artistic industries, multimedia games, animation, and digital publishing software development, with growth rates of 47.2%, 24.5%, 20.0%, 19.0%, and 18.1% respectively. The total profit of cultural enterprises steadily increased. In the first three quarters, cultural enterprises above a certain scale achieved a total profit of 909.3 billion yuan, an increase of 14.2% from the same period of the previous year. The profit margin of operating income was 8.30%, an increase of 0.45 percentage points from the same period of the previous year. Among the 43 industry categories, 39 industry categories were profitable. Among them, three industry categories such as digital content services, information service terminal manufacturing and sales, and handicrafts sales played a significant role in driving the total profit of cultural enterprises above a certain scale. This article is selected from the official website of the National Bureau of Statistics, edited by GMTEight: Feng Qiuyi.