Abstract：The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 20th CPC Central Committee have made important strategic arrangements for building a culturally strong country, prompting scholars in the field of cultural industries to conduct systematic and in-depth theoretical explorations centered on high-quality cultural development.In 2025, a total of 166 academic monographs and blue books on China’s cultural industry research were published, along with more than 2,100 academic papers. These studies focused on key topics such as XI Jin-ping Thought on Culture, new quality productive forces in culture, humanistic economics, building a culturally strong country, digital cultural industries, Chinese modernization, artificial intelligence empowerment, rural cultural revitalization, and the upgrading of cultural consumption.XI Jin-ping Thought on Culture provides a fundamental standpoint, value orientation, and methodological guidance for China’s cultural industry research, while studies on new quality productive forces in culture and humanistic economics together constitute the contemporary expression and innovative direction of the foundational theory of cultural industries.Building upon traditional themes such as new forms of cultural industries, cultural enterprises, cultural industry parks, and regional cultural industries, scholars in 2025 have paid increasing attention to emerging focal issues including artificial intelligence, culture-tourism integration, cultural “going global,” and national cultural parks.Cultural industry academic journals have formed a core publication matrix, and academic conferences have placed greater emphasis on the translation of theory into practice. At the same time, existing research also exhibits certain shortcomings, including a pronounced “head effect” among cultural enterprises, an “island effect” in cultural industry parks, and a relatively limited number of thematic studies in cultural industry reports.Looking ahead, China’s cultural industries should continue to strengthen theoretical innovation and system building, deepen research on new cultural industry formats and industrial integration, improve studies on national cultural spaces and regional cultural ecosystems, advance the development of open and shared cultural industry big data and think tank systems, thereby contributing intellectual support and academic wisdom to the construction of a culturally strong country.
2026, Vol. 43 
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