With the progress of science and technology and the rapid development of digital economy，the virtual characteristics of cultural space are gradually manifested，and in this process，virtual cultural space is brewed，stimulated and developed. The interaction and combination among the spatial attributes，cultural nature and virtual characteristics of virtual cultural space become its remarkable characteristics. In the future，the response to people’s spiritual and cultural demands，the service to people’s all-round development and the optimization of social operation order will become the development trend of virtual cultural space，and it is also the direction that virtual cultural space needs to focus on breakthrough and centralized optimization in a certain stage. As far as the current development is concerned，high-quality content，diversified forms and systematic supervision have become the important points to achieve high-quality development of virtual cultural space in the era of digital economy.