The added values of China's culture and tourism industries accounted for bigger shares of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023, the National Bureau of Statistics said on Monday, citing the results of the fifth national economic census.
In 2023, the added value of the country's culture and related industries was around 5.95 trillion yuan (827.66 billion U.S. dollars), accounting for 4.59 percent of GDP, an increase of 0.17 percentage points compared to the previous year.
The added value of tourism and related industries reached 5.48 trillion yuan, representing 4.24 percent of GDP, up 0.57 percentage points compared to the previous year.
The census also showed that the added value of agriculture and related industries was 19.85 trillion yuan, accounting for 15.34 percent of GDP.
The economic census, one of China's key national surveys, provides a comprehensive overview of the country's secondary and tertiary industries, offering valuable insights into its social and economic development.
China carried out four national economic censuses in 2004, 2008, 2013 and 2018, respectively, and formally started its fifth national economic census in 2023.
Added values of China's culture, tourism sectors secure larger shares of GDP
A group of South Korean prosecutors and investigators of the anti-corruption investigative unit launched an attempt to arrest the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol, multiple media outlets said Friday.
About 150 prosecutors and investigators of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) headed for the presidential residence in central Seoul from the government office building in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province at about 06:14 on Friday.
The prosecutors and investigators arrived at the presidential residence at about 08:00 and about half of them entered the residence by 08:30.
The investigators were reportedly confronting agents of the presidential security service, who protect Yoon at close range inside the residence.
About 2,700 riot policemen were reportedly deployed to the residence to help proceed with the arrest warrant to arrest Yoon and search the president residence.
The CIO warned earlier that if the security service blocked the arrest, it would be a crime of obstruction of justice.
The detention warrant against Yoon was issued by a Seoul court on Tuesday to question the impeached leader over his martial law imposition on the night of Dec 3, 2024, which was revoked by the National Assembly hours later. Yoon had been named by investigative agencies as a suspected ringleader on insurrection charge.
The arrest warrant was scheduled to be effective for a week until Jan 6.
It marked the first time in the country's modern history that an arrest warrant was issued against a sitting president.
The CIO has been investigating Yoon's martial law imposition jointly with the National Office of Investigation and the Defense Ministry's investigation headquarters.
The impeachment motion against Yoon was passed in the National Assembly on Dec 14 and was delivered to the constitutional court for deliberation for up to 180 days, during which Yoon's power is suspended.
Yoon's defense team has said it cannot accept the detention warrant and called it "illegal and invalid". It filed an objection Thursday to the execution of the detainment warrant, as well as the search warrant, according to Yonhap news agency.
S Korean investigators launch attempt to arrest impeached President Yoon
