In recent years, the urban and rural functional grade of Huangshan city continues to improve.

There are 8 cultural centers, 11 public libraries, 52 museums (including 33 private museums) and 101 township cultural centers. There are 49 key cultural relics under state protection and 117 at the provincial level. There are 21 items on the national intangible cultural heritage list and 63 items on the provincial list. There are five radio stations, and six medium - and short-wave transmitters and transmitters, covering 99.40 percent of the population. There are five TV stations and 286,000 cable TV subscribers, covering 99.45 percent of the total population with TV programs.

The city's public cultural venues provided free services to 3.94 million people, completed 805 performances of "delivering plays to 10,000 villages", updated 42,600 copies of rural library publications, and screened 8,480 rural public welfare films, attracting more than 900,000 visitors. The fourth China Intangible Cultural Heritage Traditional Arts Exhibition and the 16th Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and Four citizens Art Festival were successfully held. Huang Mei opera the Distant Gap and the song Huizhou Flavor were selected as the provincial "Five One Project" award, and Hui Opera "Three Stops Cup" was rated as the provincial Excellent modern drama. Huizhou Cultural Ecological Protection Experimental Area was granted the national cultural ecological protection zone, and Shexian County and Yixian County were awarded the "thousand-year-old ancient county" of Chinese place-name cultural heritage.The huge increase is a clear indication of the rapid development of tourism industry.