Abstract：By taking China's online game industry and relevant policy of the 21 st century as objects and deducing the relationship between industry and policy in different periods of time,the research attempts to fully show the organic interaction between the two,and explore the attitudes which the policy should hold towards online game industry in the future. We first sort out the history and features of three phases of industry development process respectively,then summarize relevant polices at each phase,analyze policies' introducing reason,purpose,measures,achievements and deficiencies,and finally summarize the interaction between industry and policy,based on which,proposals on future policy adjustments are put forward. The period of 2000 to 2004 witnessed the emerging of online game industry,thus policy supported it tentatively; the period of 2005 to 2008 was a time when online game industry gained rapid development and earned increasing policy support; online game industry has showed a diversified development trend since 2009,and the corresponding policy is more pragmatic. It is suggested that more efforts be focused on top-level design and special policies concerning the development of online game industry be made in the future.

Keyword：online game industry;development;policy support;