The Course And The Development Evolution Path Of Cultural System Reform In China

Since the establishment of People’s Republic of China, particularly since reform andopening up, China’s cultural construction has gain great achievements. But with the changesof the objective situation, the contradictions appear between the cultural development abilitywith the people’s growing spiritual and cultural needs, the existing culture system with thesocialist market economic system, the status of culture’s development with the demands ofbuilding a well-off society, the means of cultural development and the new situation ofcultural industry reform. The basic outlet that changing the stage which is not adapt to thesituation is to reform. From the Sixteenth National Congress of the CPC to the EighteenthNational Congress，the culture system reform of China has gone through the practice andexploration of several phases such as the rudiment, the starting, the pilot, the deepening andthe hardest stage, which formed an integral system. Combing, summing up and studying theevolution course of our country’s cultural restructuring will clarify the important theoreticalproblems in the process of the cultural reform and development, which has a greatsignificance of consolidating the achievements of the cultural restructuring and promoting thegreat development and prosperity of our country’s culture.Jilin Province is a cultural province, but it is far from the goal of “cultural province”.Jilin Province is located in the arid inland with the lower economic growth in our country,Jilin’ s culture industry can not lead a road to “high, fine, tip”, which rely on advancedtechnology abundant funds in the eastern coastal areas like Guangdong and Shanghai；We cannot depend on exploiting the ethnic cultural resources, playing an “original brand” and“national brand” in the western minority areas like Yunnan and Guangxi. Because of this, JilinProvince’s exploration and practice will factually reflect and reveal the regularityunderstanding on cultural restructuring. This dissertation is to explore the road to culturaldevelopment relating to its positive and negative experience from practice of Jilin.The dissertation makes an induction analysis of the basic theories of the cultural system，which defines three fundamental levels: the “concept and characteristic of culture”, the“concept and category of the cultural system” and the “background and motivation of thecultural system reform”. When combing the main process of the reform of cultural system ofour country, this research takes the reform and opening up as the watershed, which divides ourcountry’s cultural system and reform into two major intervals of time. Before the reform andopening up, it contained three periods:“the early years of the new nation”,“the eve of the Cultural Revolution”,“the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, During that period ourculture mainly imitated the former Soviet Union mode, Relied on planned economy with“control”. After the reform and opening up, the reform of the cultural system was initiated, ithas five stages: the rudiment, the starting, the pilot, the deepening and the hardest period. Theevolution course reflects the interacting relations between cultural systems changes andcultural economic development. This dissertation summarizes the basic principle, main ideasand progress effect of our country’s cultural restructuring. In the empirical part，mainlyanalyzed the primary effects obtained from the reform, discussed the problems in history andsummarized the experience in the cultural system reform. The current existing problems in themanagement system are shown as: the management system is rigid; the resources integrationis not enough; the talented persons are in shortage. In market system are shown as: thegovernment intervention is strong and market regulation is weak; main market entity is notenough. In operational mechanism are shown as: the governance structure of culture units isunitary; the financing channel of cultural enterprise is narrow; there is “Double TrackSystem” phenomenon in social security system. Finally, the paper puts forward thesuggestions on further deepening the reform of cultural system in Jilin province. Focusing onmacro level, it is required to establish a smooth and orderly management system. On thepremise of ensuring Party Committee to become the “Main Switch” of ideology, focus on thetransformation of government functions. The key points are to strengthen the security function,activate the regulation function, and allocate resources efficiently. To further improve thecultural and economic policies, increase cultural investment and support, establish astandardized and effective financing mechanism, encourage all sectors of the community todonate cultural undertakings. Focusing on the medium level, it is required to create a healthyand normative market environment. The key points are to build a modern cultural marketsystem, optimize the policy environment of tax, finance, price, to improve the construction ofpublic cultural service system. Focusing on the micro level, it is required to improve flexibleand efficient operation mechanism. The key points are to activate the internal mechanism ofnonprofit cultural institutions; it is required to establish state-owned cultural assets companyin accordance with the modern enterprise system, to build a cultural industry group accordingto the international operation rules.