The abrupt rising of cultural industry is a corollary of the establishment and improvement of a socialist market system. The raising of the concept of culture industry is a reflection of the necessary needs of cultura...The abrupt rising of cultural industry is a corollary of the establishment and improvement of a socialist market system. The raising of the concept of culture industry is a reflection of the necessary needs of cultural development triggered by socialist market economy and a reflection of our ever deeper understanding of the individuality and commonality of spiritual products and material products. It is a precondition for the growth of cultural industry that cultural undertaking and cultural industry are clearly and scientifically defined. On the basis of past practice of cultural institutional reform, a guideline has been offered at the 16th Party congress that separates cultural undertaking from cultural industry, providing a clear road to cultural system reform. The significance of this "bifurcation" lies in the acknowledgement of the economic properties of cultural products and cultural services, and of the legal status of cultural industry. Cultural system reform should follow the norms and characteristics of socialist spiritual civilization, satisfy the needs of socialist market system, and gradually set up a cultural management system that each and every cultural entity operates according to law under the leadership of the Party committees and stewardship of governments. The key thrust of the reform is to blaze new trail in system and mechanism with an eye to people at large and market. The current cultural system reform currently unfolding nation-wide aims no less than to break through the systematic barrier that hinders cultural development, and to create a new, broad sphere for the development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries in China.展开更多
文摘The abrupt rising of cultural industry is a corollary of the establishment and improvement of a socialist market system. The raising of the concept of culture industry is a reflection of the necessary needs of cultural development triggered by socialist market economy and a reflection of our ever deeper understanding of the individuality and commonality of spiritual products and material products. It is a precondition for the growth of cultural industry that cultural undertaking and cultural industry are clearly and scientifically defined. On the basis of past practice of cultural institutional reform, a guideline has been offered at the 16th Party congress that separates cultural undertaking from cultural industry, providing a clear road to cultural system reform. The significance of this "bifurcation" lies in the acknowledgement of the economic properties of cultural products and cultural services, and of the legal status of cultural industry. Cultural system reform should follow the norms and characteristics of socialist spiritual civilization, satisfy the needs of socialist market system, and gradually set up a cultural management system that each and every cultural entity operates according to law under the leadership of the Party committees and stewardship of governments. The key thrust of the reform is to blaze new trail in system and mechanism with an eye to people at large and market. The current cultural system reform currently unfolding nation-wide aims no less than to break through the systematic barrier that hinders cultural development, and to create a new, broad sphere for the development of cultural undertakings and cultural industries in China.
