Abstract:The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was successfully held in 2024, which made a systematic plan and comprehensive deployment for the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, and pointed out the way forward for cultural work in the new era. By 2024, 273 academic works and blue books and 2,051 academic papers on China’s cultural industry were published. The researches on Chinese cultural industry in 2024 generally present the following characteristics: the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee opens a new era of Chinese-style modernization; new cultural quality productivity has become a hot topic.The number of papers about it continues to increase. The production capacity driven by cultural innovation receives much more attention. The integration of science and technology with culture is further; new cultural tourism consumption has become an important part of the public’s better life and an important way for expanding domestic demand. Digitalization can better revitalize rural culture; the researches on cultural enterprises and cultural industrial parks focus on industrial innovation and sustainable development; the cultural industry annual reports focus on panoramic observation; cultural industry academic conferences are held more frequently. Academic journals continue to pay high attention to cultural industry research.Among them, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, XI Jin-ping Thought on Culture, new cultural quality productivity, humanistic economics, cultural system and mechanism reform, digital cultural industry, new integration of culture and tourism and artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) are academic hot topics.In 2024, there are still some shortcomings in the research of cultural industry, such as relatively weak theoretical construction and less attention to the development of internationalization; In the future, The academic community should strengthen the study on the basic theory, international development, personnel training, cultural new forms and modern cultural industry system.