The digital cultural and creative industry cluster refers to a tightly interconnected industrial collaboration formed within a clearly defined geographical area, led by a dominant category of digital cultural and creative endeavors. It attracts enterprises and related institutions to gather, creating a cohesive ecosystem. This cluster is characterized by four key features: digital intelligence-driven, virtual-physical interaction, multi-chain coordination, and network effects. The rise of digital cultural and creative industry clusters relies on a timely analysis of major transformations in productivity and production relations, as well as comprehensive responses to contemporary challenges such as technological advancement, institutional innovation, and globalization. These transformative opportunities include: technological progress driving new combinations of production factors; sustainable development requiring new cultural and creative benchmarks; bridging the digital divide necessitating innovative social governance; and the growth of digital trade expanding new market spaces. To promote the high-quality development of digital cultural and creative industry clusters, it is essential to align with the era’s demand for fostering new production factor combinations through technological advancement, advancing synergistically in three dimensions: momentum, forms, and paths. To revitalize momentum, continuous upgrading must be emphasized across four stages: new technology development-new factor introduction-new organizational construction-new growth cycle, steadily progressing toward higher growth potential and greater aggregation, and achieving higher productivity through cross-domain empowerment. For innovative forms, the organic integration of localization and globalization must be mastered, developing diverse industrial clusters, including: innovation-driven clusters, reflecting the principles of technological innovation and knowledge diffusion; scenario-based clusters, embodying the integration of cultural scenes, supply-demand matching, and localized experiences; virtual-physical interaction clusters, showcasing the synergy of digital-physical coordination and cross-domain empowerment; and tropical rainforest clusters, representing open sharing and networked organizational structures. For upgrading paths, tailored and agile exploration is required, encompassing: precise mapping of digital feedback-physical reshaping, continuous freshness-iterative upgrading for benefit amplification, and efficient collaboration-a honeycomb effect for full-chain integration.