With the deepening of transferring from regional division to value chain division,industrial transfer,industrial clusters,and industrial upgrade are closely related.Based on the review of the trends and rules of industrial transfer and clusters development,this paper first discusses the industrial clusters’ development on the background of industrial transfer and then points out shortages and future trends in the study of this field.The main shortages are:the industrial transfer theory and internal positive study are short of interconnections; study on industrial transfer and industrial clusters under the perspective of value chain as well as the study on policy in effectiveness of industry’s undertaking real estate industrial clusters are quite weak and the theory in undertaking industrial cluster’s upgrading in industrial transferring pilot area is still imperfect. In the context of deepening labor division,the only way to lay the solid foundation for meticulous logic and realistic study on industrial cluster is to incorporate the industrial transfer and industrial cluster into a unified theoretical framework.