Abstract: It is proposed the view of evaluating the value of an industrial heritage from the characteristics of an urbanindustrialization; and it is also pointed out that the oriented value of an industrial heritage lies in transferring andcarrying on the valuable cultural information in the process of industrialization, as well as transferring and developingindustrial cultural information for the contemporary and futurity． It is proposed a progressive evaluation method ofstarting from main trades to typical enterprises, and then to architectural heritages, whose essessment indexes havebeen worked out respectively, so as to set up an evaluation system． The industrial city: Chongqing is taken as thecase history using this evaluation method, which provides a useful exploration of evaluating the values of industrialheritages scientifically．