The significant reallife value of Marxist theory of artistic production has been accepted and developed by not only western but also Chinese literary theoristsThe artistic production expounded by Marx is unfolding multidimensionally in the contemporary world，being demonstrated as the artistic production in aesthetic creation，ideologies，and art industriesPresenting several new features，the imbalanced development of artistic production pointed out by Marxist literary theories has been greatly changed：on the one hand，the imbalance between the development of traditional artistic production and that of material production continuedOn the other，new phenomena has emerged from the imbalanced development of factors interior of the artistic productionNew variations have also taken place in the relationship between artistic production and artistic consumption in Marxist theories commercial value and cultural value are both taken care of in the artistic production，and multiple value functions are realized in artistic consumption