Abstract:This paper is based on the panel data of public companies in new energy industry and non-new energy public companies from 2011 to 2017, and using multiple regression model to empirically analyze the influence of government subsidy to the profitability and research ability of new energy industry as well as new energy firms after the 12th Five-Year Plan. According to the result of running the model, the article concludes the following conclusions: From the perspective of the whole industry, the features of new energy lower the stimulative effect of government subsidy on firms" profitability and researching ability. What"s worse, government subsidy have negative impact on the profitability of firms with the effect of the industry. From the perspective of firm itself, government subsidy is negatively related to the profitability of new energy companies, and have a inverted U relationship with the R&D ability of firms. Therefore, this thesis believes that government should follow the market disciplines and implement market-oriented subsidy policies for new energy industry, and improve the disclosure rules. From the perspective of new energy companies, they should focus on improving their profitability and innovation-driven endogenous growth.