high-level industry-based Specialty-universities play a vital role in China’s higher education institutions. This paper inspects and analyzes the connotation，feature and specific coverage of industry-based specialty universities in four perspectives of literature research，semantic grammar，historical evolution of industry-based education，and 2012 China Discipline Ranking，and indicates that 48 universities are in conformity with the typical features of high-level industry-based specialty universities. To give these universities full play to build an innovative country and rejuvenate the country through education，the government，industry governor and institution of higher education are bound to further strengthen the construction in development concept，classification guidance，distinction shaping and subject ecosystem so as to constantly enhance its core competitiveness.