BEIJING, Aug. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- As an important period in which to realize a moderately well-off society in an all-round way, the years from 2010 to 2020 are a golden time to facilitate a boom in China's cultural industry.

The 12th Five-Year period (2011-2015), a crucial part of the decade, offers historic opportunities for further development of China's cultural industry. The country should not only strive to consolidate its cultural development achievements over the past decades, it should also try to resolve problems that have emerged during this process.

It should seize the opportunity to forge itself into an international cultural power to meet people's ever-growing cultural demands and boost the sector's role in the national economy.

Despite remarkable progress over the past decades, China's cultural industry has failed to boost its growth through innovation. Instead, the sector's rapid development has largely depended on the exploitation of the country's material cultural resources and the development of its cultural tourism. A growth mode was aimed at increasing its economic returns through the exhaustive development and utilization of the country's natural and historical sites.

This primary development stage needs the extensive use of land and enormous government financing to sustain, bringing private enterprises, rather than the government, the largest investor, the lion's share of economic profits. Such a development model usually gives rise to vicious competition among different regions and cultural business operators and results in the exploitation of the country's natural scenery.