Comparison Of The Creative Industries Developed In China And Japan

Currently, the Creative Industry is one of the domains that world's industries are upgrading to, which attracts keen concern and active support from many countries. China has recognized the strategic meaning and urgency of the development of Creative Industry, and has confirmed it in the eleventh five-year-plan. Japan's Creative Industry ranks front in the worldwide, and is a good reference of comparison in consideration of both geographic and cultural factors.This dissertation applies the approach of comparative economics to study the reality of two countries' Creative Industry as a whole and in details. After compares the similarities and differences, it tries to interpret the causes from different country conditions, and predict the trend of Creative Industry in two markets. Furthermore, tries to find something that China could benefit from Japan's experience.Chapter 1 introduces the background, composition and major innovations of this study.Chapter 2 is a summary of relative basic studies of Creative Industry in the worldwide. It reviews the concepts and confines of statistics of Creative Industry, and points out the major differences of various definitions. After that, names the most suitable Chinese concept according to the core expression of this dissertation.Chapter 3 compares the Creative Industry in two countries as a whole. It reviews this industry from market scales, structures, market supply and demand both in realities and in the future. According to the statistic data, it tries to find the differences and to predict the developing trend.To be continued with Chapter 3, Chapter 4 compares two countries' Creative Industry in details, included with four typical sub-industries, which are Publishing Industry (including the publishing of newspaper, journal and magazines, books, digital contents), Movie Industry, Anime Industry, and Computer Games Industry. It uses the first-hand statistics data to elaborately compare these sub-industries in both quality and quantity, and summaries the major similarities and differences and their origin. Then, it tries to predict the future of some sub-industries based on the research.The last part of this dissertation studies the industry policy in two countries. After comparison of strategic significance, policy subject, legislation, finance system and training of human resource, it points out the inadequate of China's industry policy, and introduces Japan's advanced experience for China's reference.