Abstract:The high technology industry and its upgrading should significantly influence the future China’s national competitiveness.But the effect of technology import on industrial upgrading is not good in China.Using panel data from 2004 to 2012 of five sub-industries in high technology industry and the data of three economic regions of our country, based on factor analysis method to measure the degree of high technology industrial structure upgrading, this paper empirically analyzes the moderator effect of specific type of high technology industry and the moderator effect of high technology geography location’s on the relationship between the technology import and high technology industries upgrading. This paper finds that the technology technology import has significantly advanced the high-tech industries’ upgrading.The real accurate effect of the advance is depend on the specific high-tech industry’s type and its geography location . Empirical Analysis Shows that the medical equipment and instrumentation manufacturing industry’s upgrading are significantly advanced by the technology import, but the electron and communication equipment, aviation spacecraft , pharmaceutical manufacturing industry’s upgrading are not significantly advanced. The degree of the advance by the technology on the high-tech industries’ upgrading in middle china is ranked first , and then the east region be second and the west region be last. The import technology effect on high -tech industry upgrading exhibited economic law ‘marginal revenue decreasing’ in east China. Based on the empirically result, this paper puts forwards some suggestions for Chinese high-tech firms.