Copyright industry contributes more to Chinese economy: report

BEIJING - The value-added output of China's copyright industry stood at 6.63 trillion yuan ($950 billion) in 2018, accounting for 7.37 percent of the country's GDP, according to a report released Monday by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication.

The 2018 figure surged 55 percent from 2013, when the industry's contribution to GDP was 7.27 percent, said the report.

Core copyright sectors, which refer to those that create copyrighted works as their primary products, hit 4.17 trillion yuan in 2018, an increase of 9.3 percent year-on-year, it said.