On June 28, the Law on Promotion of the Cultural Industry (Draft for Comments) (hereinafter the “Draft”) of over 7,700 words was released for public consultation.

The Draft clarified for the first time the definition of the cultural industry: “The cultural industry stated in this Law collectively refers to (i) operational activities involving creation, production, dissemination and display of cultural products, as well as provision of cultural services that hold culture as their core content; and (ii) activities necessary for realizing the above operational activities, such as cultural auxiliary production and intermediary services, cultural equipment production, and culture consumption terminal production, etc.”

“This serves as the logical start of the legislation, and a realistic need in order to ensure precision and effectiveness of the promotional measures,” says the President of the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) Academy of Culture and Economics, Pengju Wei, who believes that the operational cultural industry is a corresponding concept to the public benefit cultural industry. The definition and the scope of the cultural industry should primarily be based on the Classification of Cultural and Related Industries (2018), revised and published by the State Statistical Bureau, including operational activities involving creation, production, dissemination and display of cultural products, as well as provision of cultural services that hold culture as their core content, as along with other related auxiliary activities. That is a scientific conclusion of theories and practices in the cultural industry over the past years.

Source: gov.cn