Regional Differences Of China's Cultural Industry

In the era of knowledge economy, the cultural industry has become a symbol ofnational comprehensive international competitiveness. The eighteenth NationalCongress of the Communist Party of China has pointed out, to “promote culturalundertakings prosperity, cultural industry rapid development”, however, the culturalindustry development in China started late, and the obvious regional difference existedin the economic development situation, but the development of cultural industries isnot completely consistent with economic development, such as Tibet, under thecondition of the economic development lag behind, is still capable of showing thecultural industry’s prosperity, it is based on this phenomenon, this paper tries to explorethe regional differences of the culture industry.This paper uses the data of the cultural industry from2000to2010, using theTheil index to analyze the gap of China’s eastern, central and western regions of thecultural industry, found that the gap between China’s cultural industry is larger, but thistrend in shrinking, the gap in the region is greater than the gap between the regions,and the eastern part of the gap is greater than the gap between the central and westernregions. Then, this paper analyzes the regional competitiveness of China’s culturalindustry by the Factor Analysis, found that in the GDP of the backward areas, thecultural industries also lags behind, but this phenomenon is not absolutely.Then, using the Regression Analysis to analyze the gap of China’s culturalindustry, and found that GDP, financial allocations and cultural market managementagencies in total assets and cultural industry income, urban per capita disposable,income per capita and cultural consumer spending has the obvious positive correlation.Finally, this paper argues that by promoting balanced economic development,increasing people’s income, to enhance people’s awareness of cultural consumption,increasing government investment in the cultural industry development backward area,improve the cultural industry development market mechanism, encourage culturalmarket management agencies, such as investment way to promote the cultural industry.