This paper studies culture industry total factor productivity from 2006-2010 and temporal evolution and spatial distribution characteristics in Jiangsu, based on the Malmquist index method. The result shows that the total factor productivity growth's function and influence is very limited for culture industry in Jiangsu from 2006 to 2010. Its improvement mainly contributes from the technical efficiency, the role of technological progress is small,the technical progress and technical efficiency rather than technology improvement. At the same time, the southern, middle and north part of Jiangsu respectively stays on different stages of scale economy, showing a clear regional features. Due to the rapid increase of the capital investment, the capital has been deepened, resulting technical setback in many prefecture-level cities. <<