According to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on the 29th, in the first quarter, cultural and related industry enterprises above designated size in China (hereinafter referred to as "cultural enterprises") achieved a revenue of 339.39 billion yuan, an increase of 6.2% over the same period last year, and a growth rate 0.2 percentage points faster than the full year of 2024. The core cultural field achieved a revenue of 2312 billion yuan, an increase of 7.1% over the same period last year, and a growth rate 0.8 percentage points faster than the full year of 2024. Zhang Peng, a senior statistician at the Social Science and Culture Department of the National Bureau of Statistics, interpreted the data and pointed out that in the first quarter, the vitality of the cultural market was stimulated from multiple perspectives such as cultural consumption benefiting the people, cultural supply optimization, and cultural scene innovation, and the development of cultural enterprises was steadily increasing. The cultural new industry is developing rapidly. In the first quarter, 16 industry subcategories with obvious characteristics of cultural new formats achieved a revenue of 1.4846 trillion yuan, an increase of 12.5% over the same period last year, 6.3 percentage points faster than all cultural enterprises above designated size. The contribution rate of cultural new formats to the revenue growth of all cultural enterprises above designated size was 83.5%. The cultural service industry plays a significant role as a "ballast stone". In the first quarter, the cultural service industry achieved a revenue of 1856.9 billion yuan, an increase of 9.7% compared to the same period last year, with a growth rate 2.0 percentage points faster than the full year of 2024. The cultural service industry accounted for 54.7% of the revenue of cultural enterprises above designated size, an increase of 1.7 percentage points compared to the same period last year. Its contribution rate to the revenue growth of all cultural enterprises above designated size was 83%, driving the revenue growth of all cultural enterprises above designated size by 5.1 percentage points. Driven by factors such as cost reduction and efficiency improvement, as well as positive production and operation in some cultural service industries, cultural enterprises above designated size achieved a total profit of 274.4 billion yuan in the first quarter, an increase of 29.1% compared to the same period last year. The operating revenue profit margin was 8.09%, an increase of 1.43 percentage points from the same period last year, indicating a steady improvement in the profitability of cultural enterprises. (New Society)