This paper argues that financial support for cultural development is the internal demand for cultural public products attributes and the necessary measures for inheritance of Chinese civilization. This paper carries out a comparative study on the situation of national and provincial financial support for cultural development in five aspects: from total amount of capital investment, structure, investment and management pattern, the support of the cultural system reform and the support of the construction on state-owned cultural assets management system, with the help of Hubei province as a central China representative and example. The survey shows that including Hubei province, the existing problems are: inadequate funding on culture, unreasonable input structure, low capital integration strength and the ineffective implementation of cultural support policy, etc. The author believes that Hubei government will clear and definite new ideas and implement new measures the above five problems during Twelfth Five-Year period. <<