In 2017，the countrywide overall culture and education consumption demand in urban and rural areas continued to maintain growth：The total culture and education consumption went up by 9.93%，reaching 2969.531 billion yuan；the per capita value went up by 9.31%，reaching 2141.91 yuan.As measured by per capita value，the annual growth of culture and education consumption in urban and rural areas was certainly lower than the GDP growth，slightly lower than the residents' income growth and evidently higher than the total consumption growth，also remarkably lower than the savings growth.The disparity in culture and education consumption between urban and rural areas shrank by 1.38%；the regional gap of culture and education consumption in urban and rural areas among various provinces shrank by 0.38% over the previous year.It is the disparities between rural and urban areas，among regions that mostly represent China's unbalanced and inadequate development.The status evaluations of the countrywide overall culture and education consumption demand in urban and rural areas in 2017 are as follows：The vertical evaluation of two decades since 1997，15 years since 2002，10 years since 2007，5 years since 2012 are remarkably higher than the base value and 1 years since previous year is slightly higher than the base value.The annual lateral evaluation without urban-rural and regional gaps is evidently lower than the ideal value，because of the continuous existing disparity of the urban-rural and the regional gaps.