Abstract: During the last three decade, western economic geography has experienced theoretical turns which changes rapidly and diversely. Based on absorbing related knowledge from the turns, the theory of industrial cluster formed the evolution of research focus and content, and it has persistent impacts on the development and practice of the research on industrial cluster in China. From the perspective of economic geography, this paper firstly reviews the research on industrial cluster and its evolution since 1970s, and divides the theoretical evolution of industrial cluster into three stages: the embryonic stage, the developed stage and the deepening stage. Secondly, it is argued that there are some new trends for the research on industrial cluster after 21 century, and the paper found the focuses of related studies are mainly on three dimensions, which are network, time and space respectively. Meanwhile, three new characteristics and trends were discovered on the content of those studies: ①the complexity on networks which showed from ‘the structure of cluster’ to ‘the networks of clusters’, ②the temporal dynamics that showed from ‘static cluster’ to ‘cluster evolution’, ③the non-embeddedness on spatial aspect which showed from ‘permanent cluster’ to ‘temporary cluster’, ④the international networking feature in technology which showed from ‘entitative cluster’ to ‘virtual cluster’. Finally, based on such reviews, the paper further concluded the influences and implications on the study of industrial cluster in China.