The economic theory of geography argues that economic amenity and natural amenity play a decisive role in the distribution of talents. With the increase of per capita income, however, the attractiveness of humanistic amenity to talents tends to gradually increase. This study, employing the urban-talent data at the national level, aims to validate the talent agglomeration effect of humanistic amenity. The study found that humanistic amenity has become a powerful factor to atrract talents in China. In addition, cinemas, cultural centers and other cultural facilities have a signifi cant and robust impact on the regional distribution of talents, and humanistic amenity is the cause of the agglomeration of talents, but not the result. As the stock of facilities related to humanistic amenity accumulates, its ability and scale to absorb talents will not decrease marginally, but tend to increase cumulatively. It is suggested in this study that "Chinese characteristics" should be highlighted to create shape humanistic amenity for attracting talents.