The bottleneck encountered in the development of creative industries is that the superstructure cannot meet the need of the economic base，especially in the contradiction between the administrative market segregation and increasing returns to scale which is the characteristics of the creative industries. Based on the two scopes of transition and development economy，this paper analyzes the role of scale effects to the development of creative industries，summarizes the stylized facts of administrative market segregation of the China’s economy as the institutional barriers to the long-term development of the creative industries. The policy implication of this paper are：① government transformation to reduce the resource allocation distortions and administrative market segregation，and becomes suppliers of public goods other than private goods；② deepen the reform of economy system to strengthen the basic role of the market in creative industries allocation；③deregulation to improve the viability of the firms of creative industries and to promote its inclusive development.