The Spatial Characteristics Of Beijing's Creative Industry Clusters And Their Evaluation Of Supporting Conditions

The creative industry, which is introduced by the UK Government Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), has been regarded as a hot industry in21st century. It involves many disciplines such as innovation, culture, technology, and economics; and it can benefit the social long-term sustainable development, by maintaining the growth of Green GDP, and prompting the upgrade of Secondary Industry. Cluster development model is a good support for industries development and it is able to help the immature innovation corporations unite and grow together. As a result, most metropolises around the world lay high emphasis on construction and development of creative industry cluster, including Beijing. This paper chooses Beijing, one of the most famous cosmopolitan cities, as its scope. From the perspective of creative industry cluster, this paper work on the differences of domestic and international space characteristics, analyze the requirements of cluster development, use other countries’ experience for reference, and draw on enlightenments on how to develop Beijing creative industry and its cluster. At last, I will give some suggestions about Beijing creative industry development. To some extent, creative industry is significant for Beijing’s function optimization and industrial structure upgrade.This paper is divided into five chapters. The first chapter mainly introduces the background, research significance, and methodology. The second chapter gives analysis and summary of the content of creative industry, providing theory support for the later chapters; and discusses space characteristics and development requirements of creative industry, based on domestic and international experience. The third chapter studies on present situation of Beijing creative industry and cluster development, summarizes the space characteristics of30clusters in Beijing, and points out different layout in different types of creative industry cluster. The fourth chapter selects relevant indicators of districts in Beijing and creative industry, use principal component to analyze the requirements of creative industry development. On such basis, the last chapter provides suggestions of sustainable development strategy for creative industry.