Mainland China as a totalitarian country, control of the media from the past been presented on the strict control of the state. But with the reform and opening up, media control has also been on a different shift. The 2008 Olympics held in and Wenchuan earthquake report such incidents, given the media in mainland China have different voices. Also, the degree of china media control is in dispute. Media industry as the core of the cultural industry, the relationship between the two very closely. The cultural industries will lead the media industry in mainland China. Now mainland China is promoting cultural industries, the media industry will be affected. In this thesis, researched the media control in China since reform and opening up the changes and development of cultural industries, to try to explain the relationship between the two.