Abstract: ]Strategic emerging industry is a new and hot word in China' s economics. Due to the underdevelopment of related theoretical research, it is doubted and considered as "concept boast" or "old wine in a new bottle". From the historical perspective, this paper analyzes the strategic emerging industry with consideration of China' s economic system reform, the dynamic evolution of space and time as well as the consciousness in active choices to find its policy and theoretical bases. It is expected that we can, to some degree, solve the confusion in theory and practice as well as unify the understanding of strategic emerging industry. In this way, the intrinsic mechanism of strategic emerging industry can be explored, which ensures the industry to be cultivated and developed.

Key words: strategic emerging industry, policy evolution, theoretical origin