Abstract:This paper investigates the relation between private equity and enterprise’s technological innovation using the data of Chinese listed firms in the manufacturing industry on GEM during the period from 2009 to 2014. The results show that the private equity investments can effectively impulse enterprise’s technological innovation. Further research indicates that companies invested by PEs with such features as foreign background,larger investment scale, longer holding period and alliance investment tend to have strong technological innovation performance. The results provide evidence for the authority to promulgate PE relevant policies and for companies to introduce PEs to be their stockholders.