There are currently over 4000 cultural enterprises in Tibet, and their contributions to its economy are becoming increasingly prominent, China News reported.

Tibet is an important place for cultural preservation of the Chinese nation, and its cultural industry has a huge potential for development. According to Kangchen, director of Tibet Autonomous Region Cultural Affairs Bureau, between 2010 and 2014 Tibet’s cultural industry had expanded at an average annual rate of around 20 percent. There have also been marked results in generating jobs in the cultural industry, increasing farmers’ income and boosting poverty reduction.

As of now, Tibet has two national-level cultural industry demonstration bases, 14 regional-level such bases and one experimental park. Kangchen said that in 2015 alone, Tibet’s cultural industry attracted investment of 570 million yuan and had an annual output of 2.7 billion yuan, accounting for 2. 8 percent of Tibet’s GDP.

The recently passed outline of Tibet's “13th Five-Year Plan”(2016-2020) stipulates that Tibet will vigorously develop the cultural industry and promote integrated development of the cultural industry with tourism, sports, construction, ethnic handicraft and other areas.