| At present, the leading industry of China’s national economy has been transformed from the initially agriculture into today’s non-agricultural industries, the economic growth mainly comes from the non-agricultural industries, our country have entered into a new stage of the industry supporting agriculture development. In the industrial system, the equipment manufacturing industry in the manufacturing industry, because it lies in the high-end part of the value chain, thus occupies an extremely important strategic position. Because this, in the national "12th Five-Year" Plan, the central government clearly put forward that "Develop the advanced equipment manufacturing industry, adjust and optimize the raw material industries, transform and elevate the consumer goods industry, promote the manufacturing industry from large to strong". The economic development trend of the world major industrialized countries have shown that, the equipment manufacturing industry is not only the cornerstone of the country’s economic development, but also is the lasting power of strengthening the country’s competitiveness. Therefore, the development of the equipment manufacturing industry plays a key role in the going forward of country’s industrialization process, the revitalization and development of the equipment manufacturing industry has a great role in promoting our country economic development and modernization process.Located in the west of the Pearl River Delta, the City of Jiangmen currently has initially formed a large number of characteristic industrial clusters, such as urban motorcycle and spare parts manufacturing, and Daao Town’s container manufacturing and etc.. The development and growth of industrial cluster has made a great contribution for the economic development of Jiangmen City, with the provincial and municipal levels of government increased efforts to support for the equipment manufacturing industry, the equipment manufacturing industry in Jiangmen City has become a new driving force of stimulating industrial economic growth. Under this background, to research and clearly judge the upgrade route of the equipment manufacturing industry in the Jiangmen City becomes extremely important.In this paper, on the basis of the regional industrial upgrading and equipment manufacturing related theory, taking the equipment manufacturing industry of Jiangmen City as the research object, using the SPSS statistical analysis software, comprehensively and thoroughly research the existing problems during the development process of the equipment manufacturing industry in Jiangmen, and propose the industry upgrade path of the advanced equipment manufacturing industry in Jiangmen. Firstly, on the basis of elaborating the advanced equipment manufacturing industry connotation, classification and status, introduce the current development status of the equipment manufacturing industry in Jiangmen City, make a detailed analysis and research on the economic conditions and social foundation of the Jiangmen City developing advanced equipment manufacturing industry; And then, with the angle of industrial upgrading, from two aspects of qualitative and quantitative to analysis the advanced equipment manufacturing industry status quo in Jiangmen City, construct out the industrial upgrading evaluation index system, and as a standard to judge Jiangmen City is in line with or not the development of advanced equipment manufacturing industry. Finally, combined with the domestic and international economic environment and economic development prospects, research and point out the industry upgrading path of Jiangmen City developing advanced equipment manufacturing industry, and puts forward the strategies and suggestions of the advanced equipment manufacturing industry industrial upgrading. |