Abstract:Since reform and opening up, China has sustained a rapid economic growth. But the attendant resource depletion and environmental pollution brought forward imperative desire for upgrading industrial structure. Liaoning Province, an important center of mineral and base of heavy industry of China, faced even more resource and environmental problems and hence is one of the main provinces targeted at energy saving and emission reduction during the 13th Five-year program In order to analyze the link between industrial structure and carbon emission from the micro level, first this paper, used EIO-LCA, estimated carbon emissions and embodied carbon emissions of Liaoning’s industries. Then the industrial structure’s role in and impact on carbon emission reduction are analyzed and evaluated by building potential mode of carbon emission reduction. The results show that:The heavy chemical industry and the energy industry have the greatest potential for carbon emission reduction. Finally, based on the results of the study, corresponding suggestions such as upgrading energy structure and the technology of carbon reduction, especially optimizing economic structure are proposed.