Abstract: he paper established the evaluation system of innovation- driven ability in Chinese manufacturing industry from the basic elements driven ability, scientific and technological innovation driven ability, green development driven ability and economic benefits driven ability and used the improved entropy method to evaluate the innovation- driven ability of Chinese manufacturing industry from 2009 to 2014, finding the innovation-driven ability of Chinese manufacturing industry showed continuous improvement in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, but there still existed some problems, such as lacking of highly educated talents, imperfect Internet facilities, lacking of independent innovation ability, serious environmental pollution, low level of management and so on.So the manufacturing enterprises should recruit talents though multiple channels, improve the Internet infrastructure, establish R&D center and take full implementation of green upgrading.

Key words: improved entropy method, Chinese manufacturing industry；innovation-driven ability