China’s industrial transformation and upgrading has an impact on employment in terms of industrial structure changes，industrial development discrepancies，regional industrial development，etc.During industrial transformation and upgrading，there are some prominent problems，especially the imbalance of industrial and employment structure，employment difficulties and unemployment，unconformity of labor quality and industrial upgrading requirements，business cost rising and recruitment difficulties and so on. The causes of these problems are as follows：the coordination of macroeconomic policy and employment policy，self-perfections of employment policy，matching between talent cultivation and industrial development，as well as urbanization and basic public services’ lagging behind of industrial transformation and upgrading. To resolve these problems and achieve employment promotion，based on performance improvement，we should allow the fully function of the market decisive role，concern about the employment difficulties and unemployment groups，and give full play to promote employment and job security，it is highly recommended to make macroeconomic policy and employment policy in favor of employment promotion，as well as speed up talent cultivation to meet the need of industrial restructuring and upgrading.