The winners of the 14th Five-Year Plan for Spiritual Civilization Construction were announced recently, with 67 works on the list, including the TV documentary "Carrying the Reform to the End", the movie "Wolf", the TV series "Begonia", the drama "Narcotics" and the book "Greatness Needs to Be Understood: Reading Mao Zedong Together". These ideological, artistic and ornamental works of literature and art have received word-of-mouth and a bumper harvest in ratings, box office and distribution, a vivid example of the growing prosperity of China's cultural market since the 18th National Congress.
From 2012 to 2016, China's production of feature films grew from 745 to 772, and its box office grew from 17 billion yuan to 49.3 billion yuan; the production of TV dramas ranked first in the world for several years, reaching 334 15,000 episodes in 2016; and the publication of books increased from 414,000 titles and 7.93 billion copies in 2012 to 499,000 titles and 9.04 billion copies ...... Over the past five years, localities and relevant departments have adapted to the new normal of economic development, focused on the supply side of the force, and actively constructed a modern cultural market system and a cultural industry system, improved the quality and efficiency of the development of the cultural industry, and endeavored to promote the cultural industry to become a pillar industry of the national economy.
From the National Bureau of Statistics: in 2016, the added value of the country's cultural and related industries increased from 1807.1 billion yuan in 2012 to 302.54 billion yuan, exceeding 3 trillion yuan for the first time, and the proportion of GDP increased from 3.48% in 2012 to 4.07%. With the continuous emergence of new modes and technologies such as big data, "Internet +" and virtual reality technology, the gradual integration of cultural forms or media such as movies, television, cell phones, Internet, animation, games, etc., is forming a broad media industry and generating derivative value.