The Reseach Of Chinese Urban Residents Cultural Consumption Influencing Factors And Regional Differences

With the deepening of the reform and opening up, China’s economic has developed by leaps and bounds and people’s living standards have improved significantly. At the same time, it also released the national huge consumption desire and became a powerful engine of growth. After meeting the basic material needs, residents began to pay attention to personal culture, education and leisure to enjoy a higher level consumption. So, the cultural consumption gradually has come into the mind of the public.Though cultural consumption in our country started relatively late, butit has increased year after year and has becomethe new hot spot to promote economic development.However, regional differences in cultural consumption hasbeenalso gradually expanding year after year. And it’s operating efficiency is not high.For studyingthe China’s unbalanced regional development in the field of cultural consumption,thispaperanalyzes the present situation of our country’s cultural consumption. By collecting 2005-2012 cultural consumption related data, it describes the dynamic development of the regional differences with difference coefficient and divides our 31 provinces into three levels according to the cultural consumption. Then this paper analyzed and compared the regional differences of Chinese cultural consumption and the contribution of influenceing factors with the panel regression model.Finally,according to the empirical results, this paper puts forward the corresponding suggestions for the expansion of cultural consumption and the coordination of the regional cultural consumption gap. It may contribute to provide a useful reference.