Timeline of China’s Cultural Policies

October 2000 - China for the first time focused on “cultural industry” and “cultural industry policy,” so beginning its efforts to improve policy-making for the cultural industry and enhance development and management of the cultural market system.

November 2002 - China clarified the distinction between “cultural undertaking” and “cultural industry,” and made substantial headway in building a legal framework for the latter.

December 2005 - China for the first time made major policy decisions on reforming the cultural system, allowing cultural institutions that have transformed into companies to absorb a certain amount of private capital to usher in shareholding reforms with diversified investment entities.

July 2009 - The Chinese government issued the Plan on Reinvigoration of the Cultural Industry. The cultural industry has since become a powerful engine towards boosting a new round of economic growth.

October 2010 - China first proposed making culture a pillar industry of its economy.

October 2011 - China pledged to develop a strong socialist culture, and made overall plans for deepening reform in the cultural system and promoting socialist cultural development and prosperity. The government set out to establish a modern cultural industry system, encouraging and guiding non-public cultural companies of all kinds and deepening reforms of state-owned cultural institutions.

November 2012 - China proposed accelerating the drive to develop a strong socialist culture, to expand the scale of the cultural industry and promote its intensive and professional development, along with the goals of building and developing a modern communications network, improving the country’s communication ability, and deepening opening-up in the cultural sector.

November 2013 - At the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee the Party proposed improvements to the cultural management system, establishing a sound modern cultural market system, and developing a new public cultural service network, in efforts to promote opening-up of the cultural sector.

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