Abstract: It is of great practical significance and value for enhancing the level of China’s IPR creation, application and industrialization, also for governments’ policy-making and enterprises’ strategy-upgrading that clarifying the definition, scope and statistical classification of intellectual property industries. At present, intellectual property industries are still the emerging-industry types in the frontier fields of competition. The developed countries such as the United States are increasingly accelerating the research and layout on the IP- related industries. By summarizing domestic and foreign research productions of the IP- related industries and drawing on the methods and criteria of the WIPO and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in defining the related industries, this paper puts forward at the first time systematic definition, and identifies the statistical classification, key fields and the corresponding GB/T4754-2011 code of China’s intellectual property industry with several statistical methods.