Industrial space agglomeration is the basis for industrial agglomeration to form and develop. On the basis af objective regional difference and coordination of regional division of labor and multiple dimension demand in regional market, industrial chain is regional cooperation carrier whose contents and form is industrial cooperation. The article analyzes the geographic distribution of western industry by using the theory of industrial agglcrneration and industrial chain. Accordingly, the western industries of special characteristic chain are divided into five forms of old industrial base, common- resource, scarce - resource, manufacture - based, mixed- based and diffused- based industry. The different strategies slould be adopted to deal with special chains,