Abstract:The competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises affects its market competitive advantage and sustainable development ability directly. This article builds the comprehensive evaluation index system of manufacturing enterprises’ competitiveness from five dimensions, thus the manufacturing research ability, the marketing ability, the ability of the employees, the organization and management ability and the brand influence. Taking the information express advantage of the interval intuitionistic fuzzy sets, a new method of multi- attribute appraisal is put forward based on the ELECTRE III and the IVIFNS. First experts are asked to determine the indifference, preference and veto threshold of the five properties. Then according to the score function and the precise function of the interval intuitionistic fuzzy Numbers it calculates the reliability matrix, and the net credibility which is regarded as competitiveness of the alternatives is introduced to sort the alternatives. Finally the method is applied to evaluate the competitiveness of three manufacturing enterprises in the pearl-river delta, the effectiveness of the proposed method has been verified.