The original intention and achievement of Chinese character culture industry research and practice is “Chinese character culture + X”, and “Chinese character culture + City (Region)” is the most comprehensive practice. Because of its rich cultural carrying capacity, unique pictographic features, and many related physical carriers, Chinese character culture can become the core and leading cultural strategy of cities, regions, and communities. In China, the two practical cases that combine Chinese character culture and city cultural strategy most closely are “Xu Shen’s Hometown – Luohe” and “Yin Ruins – Anyang.” This paper focuses on the cross fields of Chinese character culture, cultural industry, and public management, takes Luohe and Anyang as samples, introduces the cultural strategy modes and main contents of the two cities on the theme of Chinese character culture. By researching and comparing the implementation of the two strategies and the construction ideas behind them, this paper sums up the planning framework of the two cities’ cultural strategies. It matches the corresponding practice path of Chinese character culture to provide references. It helps scholars of Chinese character culture practice cultural strategic prediction, decision-making, and consulting projects of different cities.

Based on the intention and idea of Chinese character-based cultural industrialization, this paper puts forward the concepts of “Chinese character culture industry” and “Chinese character culture industry research” by integrating the basic theories of Chinese character culture and cultural industry, combining the practical attempts of Chinese character researches and cultural creative designs. This paper also defines the nature of “Chinese character culture industry research” by sorting out the contents of the related subjects, and puts forward the research contents of this specific field. In this way, this study tries to construct a theoretical framework of Chinese character culture industry research.