The united Nations Research Institude put forward the new concept of"knowledge economy"in 1990's.In the last few year,Zhejiang and Guangdong advanced the concept of "cultural economv"in the porcess of constructing great cultural province and for the first time took it as a practic topic in the construction of grat cultural province.The concept of—cultural economy" sufficently manifests the features of the integration of culture and economy,reveals profundly the construction rule of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics,and agrees with the Scientific outlook on Development.The positive development of cultural economy will forcefully promote the implementattion of the Scientific Outlook on Development and harmony in the society.Then,what's the background for the emerging of cultural economy?What's its relationship with knowledge economy?What's its development trend?The PaDer will disucss on the above-mentioned issues.