Abstract: Cultivating industrial resilience is a necessary strategy to cope with the profound changes unseen in a century and a practical move to promote the steady and sustainable development of China’s economy. However, the relevant research progress is rather slow, and the research results are relatively scattered. The existing studies vary in the analysis of the connotation, influencing factors, and measurement evaluation of the industrial resilience, lacking systematic summarization. This paper reviews the research progress of industrial resilience and its related fields, analyzes and evaluates the connotation and the measurement methods of industrial resilience, and outlines the influencing factors of industrial resilience. The findings show that industrial resilience is a complex coupling system composed of economic, social, and ecological environment subsystems that interact with each other. This paper focuses on the core contents of industrial resistance, recovery, re-orientation and renewal, aiming to achieve the sustainable development in the economy, the society, and the ecological environments. However, there are still deficiencies in the theoretical framework construction, comprehensive exploration of the research subjects, and cross-industry comprehensive researches in current industrial resilience researches, leaving broad space for future researches. In short, a systematical review of the industrial resilience can help to deeply understand it and provides useful references for promoting the improvement of China’s industrial resilience and the steady economic development.

Key words: industrial resilience, connotation, influencing factors, outlook