Cultural Consumption

and logistics office of the municipal government.

By the end of November, 2020, 150,901 TEUS with a total value of 27.84 billion yuan ($4.26 billion) had been transported via the route from Chongqing since it opened in September 2017.

The route is part of the New International Land-sea Trade Corridor, a trade and logistics passage jointly developed by Singapore and provincial-level regions of west China. Chongqing is a center of operation for the passageway.

The corridor’s number of final destinations has expanded to 250 ports in 96 countries and regions, according to its logistics and operating center. play a progressively more important role in making popular science reach the masses through websites and diversified mobile applications.

In 2019, the total number of social media accounts focusing on science and technology on Twitterlike Sina Weibo came in at 4,834, while accounts on Wechat stood at 9,612, up 72.09 percent and 36.01 percent, respectively, from 2018.

Dances and concerts are the artistic performances which are most popular with the Chinese youth, according to a survey by Chinayouth Daily published on December 24, 2020.

The survey, covering 1,978 people aged between the ages of 18 and 35, shows that 57.7 percent of the respondents claimed they favor dances, and 50.1 percent said they mostly attend concerts.

The survey also reflected the varied choices among young Chinese.

Li Xuan, an undergraduate at the Renmin University of China, enjoys watching plays and musicals during her free time. “I have many friends who enjoy such performances, and we like to discuss the shows we have watched and make recommendations to each other,” she said.

The increase in cultural consumption reflects the prosperity of China’s cultural market and the enhancement of people’s overall cultural confidence, Wei Pengju, a cultural economics expert with the Beijing-based Central University of Finance and Economics, said.