Land leasing is an important behavior of local government to guide regional industrial structure upgrading. From the aspects of pattern and structure of land leasing, this paper constructs a spatial panel model to empirically analyze the influence of land leasing of local government on industrial structure upgrading and its sensitivity, using panel data of 281 Chi- nese prefecture-level or upper-level cities during 2003--2014. The empirical results show that there is spatial correlation in industrial structure upgrading of Chinese cities, and l...