Abstract: In the world today,culture,economy and politics intermingle with each other and play a more and more important role in the competition of comprehensive national strength.In some developed countries,the cultural creative industry has already become a pillar industry of the national economy. Since the culture creative industry in our country is at an early stage of development,the only way to make it bigger and stronger is to strengthen the research and construction of the industry chain,and to constantly enrich and extend the industry chain.In this paper,we applied the theory of the industry chain to study the development of the cultural creative industry.Firstly,we pointed out the significance of the cultural industry chain and then analyses the cultural industry in our own country based on the thinking of the industry chain.Thirdly,taking "Harry Potter" industry chain as an example,we explained the greatly important role the industry chain played in promoting the industrial competitiveness. At last,considering the measures of developing cultural industry chain,we provided the following advices.One is to strengthen the protection of the intellectual property,the other is to strengthen the industrial planning research,and the last one is to strengthen researches and sales of the derivative products.