The National Bureau of Statistics of China released the Statistical Communiqué of the People's Republic of China on the 2021 National Economic and Social Development on February 28. The statistical communiqué shows, the year 2021 registered 3.25 billion domestic tourists, up by 12.8 percent over the previous year. Of this total, there were 2.34 billion tourists from urban areas, an increase of 13.4 percent; and 900 million tourists from rural areas, an increase of 11.1 percent. Domestic tourism revenue was 2,919.1 billion yuan, up by 31.0 percent. Of this total, tourists from urban areas spent 2,364.4 billion yuan, up by 31.6 percent; and tourists from rural areas spent 554.7 billion yuan, up by 28.4 percent.  

By the end of 2021, there were 2,044 art-performing groups and 3,671 museums in the culture and tourism system throughout China. A total of 3,217 public libraries received 728.98 million people. There were 3,317 cultural centers. A total of 6,736 episodes of 194 TV series and 78,372 minutes of TV cartoons were made in 2021. The country produced 565 feature movies and 175 popular science movies, documentaries, animation and special movies. A total of 27.6 billion copies of newspapers and 2.0 billion copies of magazines were issued, and 11.0 billion copies of books were published. The average number of books possessed per person was 7.76 copies. By the end of 2021, there were 4,233 archives in China and 189.31 million files were made accessible to the public. The business revenue of enterprises above the designated size engaged in culture and related industries reached 11,906.4 billion yuan, up by 16.0 percent over that of the previous year on a comparable basis. 

(From China Tourism News)