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: Zhong Yao

Studies on Marxism.2014.No.3.