Abstract: With the transformation of social economy, the domestic emerged some idle industrial buildings and industrial heritage. Therefore, government agencies and scholars in colleges, universities and research institutions have been studying the industrial heritage protection and reuse in recent years. In this background, the past 10 years industrial heritage research literatures were analyzed, progresses were summarized, and some insufficiencies were proposed. Industrial heritage research has stepped into the subject research stage, and the biggest characteristic is that moving into the ‘experience’, ‘community’ and ‘creative’ theme, changing single museum protect reuse model to the diverse industrial heritage tourism development. Some ‘refinement’ research directions were formed, including the longitudinal, transverse and industry specialized research trend, but the subject is simple, space-time distribution of the research object is disequilibrium, and industrial heritage management research is insufficient. Finally, combining with the background of the business excessive reproduction of ‘gentleman’, how to balance the rights and interests were reflected, so as to solve realistic problems in the industrial heritage protection and reuse.