Creative Industries And The Development In China

Creation is more and more important for a country to advance its economic growth in the times of knowledge, technology and information.Creative industries include those industries which have their origin in individual creativity,skill and talent and which have a potential for wealth and job creation through the generation and exploitation of intellectual property. Talent and culture are the key factors for the development of creative industries.New-born as the creative industries are, they have already manifested the powerful affection and huge development space and become the strongly-developed industries in many developed countries. Combing the practice of China,the changing of the ways of economic growth is an important theoretical and practical issue during the period of"11th Five Year plan". I think that the creative industries will play an important role to the changing of the ways of our economic growth.Now,the creative industries have developed in some cities of our country,such as Beijing,Shanghai and Shenzhen. But problems such as lacking of creative talents, short of capital, weak in intellectual property protection had restrained its development greatly. So, in this paper, the author firstly introduced the definition,classification,characteristics of creative industries and reasons of rapid development in some countries. Then this paper elaborates the function of creative industries from several aspects:changing the ways of economic growth,enhancing the urban competence,increasing urban employment,continuing the venation of urban culture,and molding the characteristic city landscape,protecting the national culture and so on. Finally, the author analyzes factors such as talent, culture, technology, capital, tolerance and government policies that will affect the development of creative industries, establishes the factor-model of creative industries development, and presents some policy suggestions for national and local governments to develop creative industries.In the paper,the author distinguishes three concepts:creative industries,cultural and creative industries and cultural industries;In order to analyze factors that affect the development of creative industries, the author establishes the factor-model of creative industries development on the basis of the Diamond Model presented by Porter, which is the most excellent part of this paper.