With the development of socio-economy and the rapid advance of science and technology, the function of industry in the national and regional socio-economic development has been evolving accordingly, leading to the change of industrial location factors and industrial spatial structure.In last decade, such a change was mainly manifested in the enhancing of the influence of technical, social and institutional factors on industrial activities and their to-cation, and the development of international industrial cooperation. To deal with these changes, new methods and contents of industrial geography have been developed, which could be used for reference by Chinese industrial geographers.