World City is the highest in all levels of development and the most influential super city in all the cities in the world. Building world city is one of the high goals of urban development, and cultural construction is the important measure for building "world city" and "central cultural city".Through the comparison with New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, this article puts forward some suggestions about how to speed up the development of the city culture by analyzing the advantages and gaps of Beijing on "cultural heritage and population", "cultural dynamic and industry", "cultural facilities and markets", "ecological entironment and livable city". <<