On December 15^th, Sun Shoushan, Deputy Director of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, delivered the 2016 Annual Report on China’s Gaming Industry at the opening ceremony of the annual conference of China’s gaming industry. The report showed that the revenue for mobile games amounted to 81.92 billion RMB in 2016, a year-on-year growth of 59.2%. The revenue from client games was 58.25 billion RMB, a year-on-year decrease of 4.8%. In 2016, the actual income of China’s gaming industry was 165.57 billion RMB, among which the electronic sports game generated 50.46 billion RMB. There were 158 listed Chinese gaming companies and around 3,800 domestic games approved by the State Administration. About 260 were imported, and the number of users of live-streaming games exceeded 100 million.

Via Banhua