Abstract: According to the surveys on the present situations of the traditional cost design and product cost management，the connotation of the industry cost technology, the new concepts of the industry cost design and cost technology are proposed. The backgrounds of forming cost design theory in manufacture industry and the application of cost design methods during the last 10 years in China are comprehensively described. The Development trends and the key tasks in future industry cost design are systematically analyzed.

Key words: Cost technology, Developmint trends, Industry cost design