Abstract: Taking the 23 prefectural-level cities in the old northeastern industrial base of China as studying object, this paper adopts DEA-Malmquist model to measure the efficiency of economic revitalization of the old northeastern industrial base of China during 2004-2014. At the same time, the panel data model is used to analyze the space-time characteristic and the influence factors of economic revitalization efficiency of the old northeastern industrial base. The results show that: the economic revitalization efficiency of the old northeastern industrial base during 2004-2014 grows slowly and lacks of effectiveness; technology change index decline is the main reason for the low efficiency of economic revitalization, and the slight improvement of index of technical efficiency change mainly is caused by pure technical efficiency change index, and there exists obvious regional difference; the development of the secondary industries in the industrial structure and population size have a significant role in promoting efficiency in economic revitalization; governmental supporting and opening degree have some positive influence on the efficiency of economic revitalization, but the effectiveness is limited and also there exists a big regional differences; the influence of science and technology level is negative or in significant.

Key words: the old northeastern industrial base of China, economic revitalization efficiency, regional difference, influence factors