Founded in January 2014, the base is one of the earliest provincial cultural industry research platforms approved by Henan Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department. Supported by School of Humanities, it absorbs experts to develop the regional cultural industry. Now it has fifteen full-time researchers, more than twenty part-time members. Since its foundation, based on the local economic and social development, the base has regarded the cultural inheritance and innovation of Central China as its duty, studied concerned industries: jade carving, cultural tourism, drama, film and television, Zhongyuan writers’ works, cultural exhibition. It has undertaken fourteen national projects, thirty six ministerial programs and projects of Henan, and over seventy other projects.