AI Infographic: Development of China's culture and tourism, public health and sports in 2025

By the end of 2025, there were 1,879 art-performing groups affiliated to government culture and tourism departments throughout China. A total of 3,253 public libraries received 1,469.83 million person-times of visits nationwide. There were 3,517 cultural centers.

Subscribers to cable television programs numbered 207 million, among which 200 million subscribed to digital cable television programs.

A total of 3,376 episodes of 110 TV series and 93,874 minutes of 336 TV cartoons were produced in 2025.

The country developed 511 feature movies and 253 popular science movies, documentaries, animation, virtual reality and special movies.

A total of 23.0 billion copies of newspapers and 1.6 billion copies of magazines were issued, and 10.8 billion copies of books were published.

By the end of the year, there were 4,227 archives in China and 267.26 million files were accessible to the public.

The business revenue of enterprises above the designated size engaged in culture and related industries reached 15,213.5 billion yuan, up by 7.4 percent over that of the previous year on a comparable basis.

In 2025, a total of 6.52 billion domestic trips were made, up by 16.2 percent over that of the previous year.

The expenditure of domestic tourists was 6,300.3 billion yuan, an increase of 9.5 percent.

The number of inbound visits to China totaled 154.50 million, up by 17.1 percent.

The expenditures of inbound visitors to China totaled 131.1 billion US dollars, up by 39.2 percent.

The number of inbound trips made by foreigners to China under the visa-free policies totaled 30.08 million, up by 49.5 percent.

The number of outbound visits by Chinese mainland residents totaled 167.92 million.

By the end of 2025, there were 1.107 million medical and health institutions in China, including 38 thousand hospitals. There were 13.40 million medical technical personnel in China. The medical and health institutions in China had 10.09 million beds. The total number of medical visits and hospital discharges in 2025 reached 10.58 billion and 0.30 billion respectively.

There were altogether 5.004 million sports venues. The sports venue area totaled 4.37 billion square meters and the per capita sports venue area was 3.1 square meters. In 2025, Chinese athletes won 146 world championships in 31 sport competitions and broke 17 world records.