Abstract:The 20th National Congress of the CPC was successfully convened in 2022, and China embarked on a new journey to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and march towards the second centennial goal. In 2022, there are about 200 research works and blue books on China's cultural industry published, and about 3,000 papers in academic journals. In 2022, cultural industry research focuses on hot topics such as cultural industry empowerment of rural revitalization, construction of a cultural power, digitalization of cultural industry, high-quality development of cultural industry, and upgrading of cultural consumption. Among them, the national cultural digitalization strategy has become the focus of scholars' attention, and the research of Cultural Metaverse has become an academic flashpoint, reflecting the extensive attention of the academic community to academic frontiers, industrial development and new industrial formats. On traditional topics, more focus has been put on the basic theory of cultural industry, new formats of cultural industry, cultural enterprises and parks, and regional cultural industries, scholars pay more attention to concept expansion, research perspective, statistical classification, new business formats, transformation and upgrading, industrial structure, and cultural and tourism integration. The group of academic journals in the core area of the cultural industry has basically taken shape, and academic conferences attach importance to academic frontier and innovation. In 2022, the research on cultural industry mainly has the following shortcomings:the basic theory of cultural industry ignores “industrial attributes”;lack of detailed statistical data and in-depth industry analysis in the annual report of cultural industries; the small number of regional cultural industry research results; lack of strategy summary research on key cultural enterprises and cultural parks; lack of attention to cultural industry policies. Given the situation of 2022,this paper offers the following suggestions: continue to promote the basic theoretical research of the cultural industry; carry out in-depth research on the national cultural digitalization strategy; strengthen the research of cultural industry policies and typical cases of cultural industry; especially strengthen industrial thinking, and build a scientific and reasonable cultural industry research paradigm that conforms to industrial reality.