Since the reform and opening up, China's "industrial revolution" can be considered to be one of the most important events in human history in the last century. This paper reviews five stages of the “pre-industrial times” in the 30 years after the founding of new China, as well as four waves of China's industrialization process since the reform and opening up. It is found that although China’s industrialization was boomed and rapidly pushed forward after the reform and opening up, it in fact laid a solid foundation for the industrialization process in materials, talents, organizational form, social culture and so on in the 30 years after the founding of new China. The four waves of industrialization after the reform and opening up are a process of combining bottom-up institutional experiments with up-bottom top-level design. In these four waves, whether it is township enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, or special economic zones, they are all facing the industrial upgrading and kinetic energy conversion in the new era, and there is a high degree historical and logical unity. In order to find micro evidence for grand narrative, we investigated Tiangong International, a private iron and steel enterprise in Danyang, Jiangsu Province. From a village repair plant to a township enterprise, and then to the listed company and international enterprise group, the growth of Tiangong International has witnessed the historical process of "China's industrial revolution". Under the background of China's transformation and upgrading currently, as well as the high-quality development, it is a new mission of China's industrialization to promote the evolution of our manufacturing industry to "high-end manufacturing" and "intelligent manufacturing".
