Abstract:

　At present, censorship is the specific method of supervision on the cultural products for Chinese government. Although it can protect minors’physical and mental health in some degree, censorship is not adapted to the rapid development of cultural industries. To meet the needs of the development of cultural industries, cultural workers in China focused on cultural products classification system gradually. This paper firstly taken the United States and South Korea for example,briefly introduced the establishment and current situation of the foreign cultural products classification system;then analyzed the necessity of implementing cultural products classification system in China in terms of facilitating market supervision,ensuring freedom of speech,liberating cultural productivity, protecting minors’physical and mental health and establishing the human-centred concept;finally, it discussed the background of cultural products classification system establishment in China, and made recommendations.