🚀 China's sci-fi industry is shooting for the stars! In 2023, it raked in a staggering 113.29 billion yuan (about $16 billion), marking a stellar year with a 29.1% year-on-year growth. This is the first time the industry's revenue has soared past the 100-billion-yuan milestone! 🌟
The 2024 China Science Fiction Industry Report, unveiled at the 8th China Science Fiction Convention in Beijing, breaks down this astronomical success:
- Sci-Fi Reading: Bookworms contributed 3.17 billion yuan, up 4.3% from last year. 📚
- Sci-Fi Films & TV: Screens lit up with 11.59 billion yuan in revenue, a whopping 38.8% increase! 🎬
- Sci-Fi Games: Gamers powered the bulk of the earnings with 65.19 billion yuan, growing 15.4%. 🎮
- Sci-Fi Cultural Tourism: Adventurers boosted revenues to 31.06 billion yuan, a mind-blowing 106.7% surge! 🌐
The screen sector saw a significant rise in sci-fi web series and mini-series, along with a boom in short and medium-length sci-fi videos—perfect for your streaming binge! 🍿
This epic report was a collaboration between the China Science Fiction Research Center and the Research Center for Science and Human Imagination at Southern University of Science and Technology. 🤝
With numbers like these, China's sci-fi scene isn't just a galaxy far, far away—it's right here and it's electrifying! ⚡
Reference(s):
cgtn.com
