Industrial technological characteristics are the main factors of influencing the catch - up performance of developing countries. Firstly, the paper elaborates the characteristics of industrial technological mode that affects industrial technological catch - up, and analyzes the possibility of technological catch - up in six typical industries based on it, The new environment of catch - up determines that China should choose a new way to catch up currently. On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of industrial technological mode and environment, the paper gives different choices of future technological catch - up modes in typical Chinese industries.