Abstract:The innovation level of integrated circuit(IC) has a significant impact on the national economy and security of China, as well as on its technological development. The IC innovation policy is the policy guide to improve IC innovation capability. Taking 123 nation - level IC policy documents issued in China from 1987 to 2020 as research samples, we encode and quantitatively analyze the content of policy texts by using content analysis method and policy tool theory. We draw the evolution trend of increasing number and improving structure of policies, and the use of specific policy tools is mainly environmental policy. And then we point out the existing problems. Besides, it is found that objective programming policies play a key role in the overall quantity and structure of policies. At last but not least, it provides directions and suggestions for the future innovation policy design of China's IC industry from the perspective of policy tools to strengthen market management and independent innovation.