Abstract: The decisionmaking behavior of local governments, especially local officials, has a nonnegligible impact on urban industrial pollution. This paper discussed the relationship between local officials’ characteristics and urban industrial pollution. Yangtze River Delta area is selected as the research area to tested the effect of local officials’ characteristics (Age, Tenure and Promotion) on urban industrial pollution using the relevant data from 2005 to 2014. The results show that the factors such as age, tenure and promotion of local officials had different effects on urban industrial pollution: (1) With the increase of officials age, industrial pollution increased first and then decreased. (2) Officials prefer to reduce industrial pollution in the early years of the administration. However, over time, the industrial pollution will be aggravated. (3) Compared to officials th〖JP〗at transferred from other cities, the intensity of urban industrial pollution under locally officials administration will be slowed down. For effective control of urban industrial pollution,we put forward some policy suggestions from the aspects of improving the promotion mechanism of local officials and improving the environmental assessment system of local officials