Abstract:In 2019, the academic research on China’s cultural industry showed slight decrease in quantity, improvement in quality, narrow focuses and highlighted hot issues. In terms of academic hot issues, the high-quality development of cultural industry, legislation of cultural industry, cultural industry of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, artificial intelligence, scene theory, game and e-sports industry development have received a lot of attention, reflecting the rapid response of the academic circle to cultural policy adjustment, technological progress and industrial practice. In conventional research field, more focus has been put on the basis theory of cultural industry, industrial formats, enterprise parks, and researches on industrial policies, and a mature research specification has been formed in interdisciplinary research, and a number of stable academic institutions and research teams have come into being, which lays a foundation for the discipline construction in cultural industry. In terms of conferences and periodicals on cultural industry, they are marked with obvious branding trend, ever increasing influence and ever richer contents and forms, and gradually build up a new way of cultural industry communication and is conducive to forming a virtuous circle of academic community. In the future, we believe that we need to continue to increase undergraduate and graduate programs in cultural industry, put more efforts in basic theoretical research, pay attention to the traditional and frontier forms in cultural industry, improve its public cultural service function, and enhance the exchanges and cooperation between academia and enterprises in cultural industry.