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Culture
At the end of 2005, there were 2,577 performing troupes, 2,868
culture centers, 2,736 public libraries, 1,556 museums, 273 radio
broadcasting stations, 302 television stations and 50 educational
television stations throughout China. Subscribers to cable
television programs and digital cable television services numbered
125.69 million and 4.13 million, respectively. Radio broadcasting
and television broadcasting coverage rates were 94.5 percent and
95.8 percent, respectively. The country produced 260 feature
movies, 42 science, educational, documentary and cartoon movies and
14 special movies in the year. A total of 40.4 billion copies of
newspapers and 2.75 billion copies of magazines were issued, and
6.4 billion copies of books published. There were 4,012 archives
and 60.16 million documents were made accessible to the public.
Development of the Internet Service
According to the China Internet Network Information Center, till
the end of 2005, IP addresses on the Chinese mainland totaled 74.39
million and the number of netizens soared to 111 million, 17
million more than the previous year, representing a growth rate of
18.1 percent. China’s online community made up 8.5 percent of the
total population, with 84.8 percent of Internet users having junior
college education or above and 1.8 percent, a high school degree.
Students accounted for 35.1 percent of all netizens, enterprise
employees for 29.6 percent, teachers and other administrative staff
for 7.3 percent, public servants for 6.6 percent, employees of
public service units for 6.5 percent, and others for less than 5
percent.
A total of 64.3 million had broadband access, 21.5 million more
than the previous year. The average browsing time was 15.9 hours
per week, which is 2.7 hours or 20.5 percent more year on year. The
most frequent activities were browsing news, searching for
materials through search engines and e-mailing. The average netizen
paid 103.6 yuan each month for Internet connection, not including
the expenses for online services. Online service charges exceeded
100 billion yuan in 2005, reflecting this sector’s huge market
potential.
Cultural Heritage Protection
The State Council has designated the second Saturday of each
June from 2006 as the Day of Cultural Heritage. The first such day
fell on June 10, 2006 and had the theme "protecting cultural
heritage and maintaining spiritual habitat." National and local
authorities of culture and heritage protection held various
activities on that day. The sixth list of key state-level cultural
heritage sites and the first list of state-level masterpieces of
the oral and intangible heritage were also issued that day.
The verification of the first batch of state-level masterpieces
of the oral and intangible heritage progressed smoothly. Till
February 2006, 501 candidates had been identified. They were
selected from 1,315 entries, in the 10 categories of folk
literature, music, dance, drama, folk ballad, acrobatics and
sports, fine arts, handicraft, traditional Chinese medicine and
folk custom, which were recommended by the departments concerned of
31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities.
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