Based on the research documents about the evaluation index for powerful cultural countries from foreign experts and scholars, this paper reviews and summarizes the research tendency, the methods for constructing index, theoretical foundations, the dimensions for constructing the evaluation indicators system, and the criteria for indicator selection of these studies from powerful cultural countries in today’s world. Besides, this paper makes a brief analysis on these research results. Accordingly, this study points out that China should learn experience from the research achievements abroad. Meanwhile, the paper also reveals that the study abroad also has its defects. Therefore, we should learn lessons from it.