In recent years，the cultural industry of China has been developing steadily，the overall industrial scale and development levels have been continuously expanded and improved.Year 2017 is an important year for China to implement the “13^th Five-Year Plan” in which the policies and laws focusing on the various segments of the cultural industry have been issued to support the comprehensive development of the cultural industry.Among them，the emerging industries represented by “internet+” demonstrate prominent development.Special economic zones，as the pioneers of China's economic development，show the characteristics of rapid development，distinctive features and mature systems in terms of the development of their cultural industries when compared with other cities and regions.The development of the cultural industries in the 5 special economic zones has their own strengths but also share certain commonalities.Currently，the digital cultural industry is the highlight of the development of the cultural industries of the special economic zones and，as the well-received cultural industry，has great development potential.In addition，the development of the cultural industries of the special economic zones has made great progress，however，the regional unbalanced development and the shortage of professional talents constitute the constraints for the next-phase development of the cultural industries in these places.