Abstract: This paper develops a theoretical framework from the two dimensions of industrial innovation chain and policy instruments, with a purpose to conduct a cross-country analysis on the new-energy vehicle industry's policies and then provide implications for policy-making systems. This research has adopted the method of content analysis to analyze the five typical developed countries (USA, Japan, Germany, France and UK) and "BRICS countries". The research findings are as follows: firstly,from the dimension of industrial innovation chain, policy formulation must follow the nature of the specific industry's development; secondly, in regard to the dimensions of policy instruments, policies' improvement must tackle the problems emerging from the bottleneck of special industry development; thirdly, ten countries' policy samples have demonstrated that the perfection degree of policy-making system in the new-energy vehicle industry has determined the industry's actual performance. Furthermore, in order to improve policy-making system of Chinese new-energy vehicle industry, this paper proposed three implications including increasing policies' formulation to feed the supply side, emphasizing continuously to establish more charging stations or piles by considering the environmental side, and adopting the strategy of "public transportation is encouraged in the short term, while private transportation will be encouraged in the long term" from the demand side.

Key words: new-energy vehicle, industrial policy, industrial innovation chain, policy instruments, content analysis