An eye mask sold by the Palace Museum [Photo/gugong1925.world.taobao.com]

China's culture sector and related businesses continued to grow rapidly last year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Thursday.

The total revenue of the culture sector and related businesses hit 8.93 trillion yuan (about $1.33 trillion), up 8.2 percent year-on-year, according to an NBS survey over 60,000 enterprises of scale in China.

Specifically, seven of the nine culture-related sectors saw their business revenues rise last year, with three of them registering double-digit growth, the NBS said.

News and information services boasted the fastest growth in 2018 with total revenue of 809.9 billion yuan ($120.73 billion), rising 24 percent from the previous year