In this paper,we had carried on a large number of investigations using meta-competence questionnaire,per- formance questionnaire and manufacturing management competence questionnaire,the results show that the meta-com- petence includes three factors:ideation,learning and application ability,self-development ability;ideation can effec- tively promote contextual performance and adaptive performance,while learning and application ability can improve the whole performance;ideation,marketing planning ability and product system management ability are effective predictive factors for manufacturing managers performance.