This article aims to explore the origins of the cultural and creative industry in the UK and how they blossom in the world. China has rich cultural heritages and a long history. The mainland and Taiwan all jump to the wagon of cultural and creative industries despite their different political and economic conditions. The mainland raises the concept and strategy of cultural economy policy in official documents since 1998，hile Taiwan develops the concept from the 90s. The mainland and Taiwan are all developing cultural and creative industries into the golden era.

At the same time，we also try to analyze the cluster of cultural and creative industries both in the mainland and Taiwan，in order to explore their characteristics and differences. For instance，shanghai “Tian Zi Fang”is a voluntarily aggregated cluster，“Beijing Zhongguancun Villageis is led by the government from bottom to top”，and Taipei “Huashan1914 Creative Park”is a flagship base，hat emphasizes the innovation of beauty，and humanistic concern.

Meanuhile，an analysis of 36 cities with cultural and creative potentials is included.A model of soft power and hard power is employed to obtain the total indicators of cultural and creative competitiveness of the city，which displays the potentials for international competition.With the rich historical heritage and cultural capital，the focus on the cluster of cultural industrial parks，as well as the enhancement of the aesthetic experience from bottom to top，we may promote the comprehensive development of cultural and creative industries and replace the industry-based economy with cultural economy，thus entering into a new age of invigorating the nation through culture.