State-owned cultural enterprises play several roles in contemporary economic and social development. They play a basic role in promoting culture industry to become state pillar industry, a leading role in innovating development mode of culture industry, a key role in promoting scientific and technological progress of culture industry, a dominant role in safeguarding national culture security and taking part in international culture industry competition, a modeling role in correctly dealing with the relationship between social benefit and economic benefit of culture industry, a linking role in realizing cultural common prosperity, and a guiding function to non-public cultural enterprises. Moreever, it is the main force of developing the advanced socialist culture and leads the communication of socialist values.

Editor: zhang Jiangang