Abstract: From the perspective of regional equality and outcome equality, and according to the degree of equalization of public cultural resources between regions, this paper constructs the index system of equal evaluation of basic public cultural services, and puts forward an evaluation method involving expert scoring, comprehensive index and Gini coefficient. It then conducts an empirical study on the equalization level of basic public cultural services in China from 2011 to 2016. The results show that 1) the equalization level of basic public cultural services in China is not high, reaching an unbalanced status and showing a downward trend from 2011 to 2016; 2) in terms of public cultural resources, the situation in the east has been the best, followed by western whereas the central region the worst; 3) the serious regional difference of public cultural financial inputs and the worsening regional difference in the supply of public cultural products are the main factors restricting the process of equalization of basic public cultural services. Finally, the advantages and disadvantages of the empirical model are discussed in this paper.

Key words: Public cultural services, Equalization, Model construction, Empirical study, Gini coefficient