On July 13, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism released the Statistical Bulletin on National Cultural and Tourism Development 2022 to provide a report on the implementation of cultural and tourism work in 2022.

Institution and staff

As of the end of 2022, there were 314,000 cultural and tourism units in China, an increase of 1,900 from the end of the previous year. Among these, there were 68,100 units under the cultural and tourism sectors at all levels, an increase of 2,800, and the number of people employed in these units went up to 724,900, an increase of 14,500.

Art performance

As of the end of 2022, there were 19,739 art performance troupes, an increase of 1,369 compared to the end of 2021. The number of employees was 415,200, down 38,100 from the end of the previous year.

In 2022, art performance troupes held 1.66 million shows, which was down 28.6% compared to 2021. Total revenue reached 8.1 billion yuan, which represented a decrease of 28.4%.

The number of art performance venues nationwide increased by 106 from the end of 2021 to 3,199 at the end of 2022. The number of seats available to audiences was 2.47 million, down 2.6%.