本文采用中国31个省份1996-2013年的面板数据,对中国文化产业与经济发展的内在驱动效应展开研究。研究发现:第一,文化产业投入和产出规模扩张对地区GDP和人均GDP增长具有显著作用,两者间的交互效应会加大其对经济发展的推动力;第二,文化产业有助于带动旅游业和整个第三产业发展,促进地区经济增长;第三,中国文化产业对经济发展的带动效应存在显著的地区差异,西部地区文化产业对经济发展的提升作用最大,中部和东部地区效应相对不足。因此,进一步加大对文化产业发展的政策支持,实现文化产业的合理布局,不仅能够促进整体经济增长,而且可以实现区域平衡发展。

This paper studies the internal drive mechanism of Chinese Cultural Industry to the economic development, using panel data covering China's 31 provinces which have different economic growth and income status, from the year of 1996 to 2013. The result shows that:Firstly, as the inputs to cultural industry and outputs from the cultural industry expand, the regional GDP and per capita GDP grow accordingly. These factors play a significant role in the economic growth. Furthermore, the interaction between inputs and outputs, which contains many development chances and business factors, will increase the driving force for regional economy. Secondly, cultural industries mainly contribute to the growth of tourism and other service industries, all of which belong to the important tertiary industry. Now, as the tertiary industry brings about over half of the regional total income, the significant role of cultural industry is obvious. Thirdly, the analytical result shows an important phenomenon:the economic pull effect of cultural industry shows large regional difference:the driving effect is the obvious in Chinese western areas, and is comparatively weaker in the middle and eastern areas. As a matter of fact, the western regions need faster growth more than any other regions. Therefore, as China's economic development transits from the extensive growth to the new kind of growth with environmental protection and low resources consumption, to further increase the policy support for the development of cultural industries, and to promote cultural industry's overall scale are important to industrial structure optimizing and economic development. In addition, preferential development policies to the western areas are helpful to the cultural industry scale effect, and can assist the development of these regions.