关键词: 公共文化支出 , 国民收入 , 价格水平

Abstract: Could the growth of national income and rise in the price level promote the proportion of provincial governments expenditure on public culture? This paper applied the panel data of 31 provinces to test the above relationships over the period 2004—2010The empirical results showed that the proportion of provincial expenditure on public culture had a significant negative correlation with national income，which implied the “rich” provincial government failed to increase investment in public cultureThe “cost disease” did exist，which meant the rising price level was the main cause to force the provincial government to increase expenditure on cultureTherefore，the system reform from provincial government level required a further improvement and more concerns among policy makers

Key words: expenditure on public culture , national income , price level