China's science fiction industry has entered the era of "100 billion"! At the 8th China Science Fiction Conference held in Beijing from April 27th to 29th, the China Science Fiction Research Center and the Science and Human Imagination Research Center of Southern University of Science and Technology jointly released the "2024 China Science Fiction Industry Report". The report shows that in 2023, the total revenue of China's science fiction industry will be 113.29 billion yuan (RMB, the same below), a year-on-year increase of 29.1%. Among them, China's science fiction reading industry revenue was 3.17 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.3%; China's science fiction film and television industry revenue was 11.59 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 38.8%; China's science fiction game industry revenue was 65.19 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.4%.
According to Wang Ting, director of the China Science Fiction Research Center, in the process of Chinese culture "going out", the international communication of Chinese science fiction has shown diversified, networked and three-dimensional characteristics, and its overseas influence has gradually increased, becoming a new rising star on a global scale. cultural power. The China Science Fiction Research Center, relying on the international communication big data intelligent service platform of the Institute of Contemporary China and the World, jointly launched the "Chinese Science Fiction Overseas Communication Report (2018-2023)". The report shows that from 2018 to 2023, the global search popularity of Chinese science fiction increased year by year, and reached the peak of search popularity in 2023, which was nearly 37 times higher than in 2018. Among them, the search popularity in 2019 increased by approximately 689.5% year-on-year, which was related to the release of the movie "The Wandering Earth" that year. In 2018, the number of overseas mainstream media reports on Chinese science fiction was less than 200, and in 2022 it will exceed 3,600. Judging from the country distribution of mainstream media reporting on Chinese science fiction, from 2018 to 2023, American media reported the largest number of Chinese science fiction over the years. The media in India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Thailand report more on Chinese science fiction. Actively promoting Chinese science fiction to "enter" Europe, Oceania, South America and other regions is an important way to improve the overseas communication effect of Chinese science fiction in the future. The report shows that based on a comprehensive analysis of the communication index, the average communication index of science fiction game IP is as high as 82.73, which is much higher than science fiction film and television (average index 70.44) and science fiction literature (average index 64.76). How to further develop game IP, enhance the influence of Chinese culture, and expand overseas markets are the key directions for the future layout of science fiction games.
"Science fiction is generating a new literary perspective, providing a new way to deeply understand life and the situation of the community in a modern context." At the China Science Fiction Conference Yuanyu Future Forum and "Co-create a science fiction ecology and share a smart future" - Science Fiction Power At the Cultural Tourism Industry and Rural Revitalization Forum, Shi Zhanjun, member of the Party Group and Secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Writers Association, said that science fiction, with its rich imagination and profound cultural heritage, is being used in the innovative design of the cultural tourism industry and the changes of the times, creating A unique and attractive cultural tourism project. For example, in the science fiction movie "The Wandering Earth 2", the space elevator that goes straight through the sky amazed billions of viewers. After the movie became popular, it brought huge traffic to the real-life "space elevator" in Mangshan Yizhang, Chenzhou, Hunan. The scenic spot's Internet-famous attraction "Sky Elevator" can "traverse" the height of 50 floors in just 59 seconds, attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists. Since then, science fiction writers represented by Liu Cixin, Wang Jinkang, and Chao Xia have conducted interviews and talks in Mangshan and become a hot topic. “Science fiction, as a form of cultural expression and communication, is injecting new vitality into the cultural tourism industry and rural revitalization. These science fiction-themed cultural tourism projects can not only create a benign ecology for the cultural tourism industry, but also lead the public through the perspective of science fiction. To pay attention to the impact of science and technology on society and people's hearts, further stimulate the public's interest in science and technology, and cultivate the public's scientific literacy." Shi Zhanjun said. ▲
