Abstract: Recently the air pollution caused by volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is drawing much attention in China. About half of the total VOCs from anthropogenic sources was reported coming from industrial sources, especially point sources. Although many studies related to the emission inventory of VOCs in different industrial types can be found from literatures, little is known about characteristics of industrial point source VOCs before they are treated by different techniques. A total of 552industrial gaseous VOCs point sources before treatment were collected and analyzed in respect to different industrial categories. The results showed that the flow rates of VOCs from industrial point sources were mainly from 10^3to 10^5m3/h, while the VOCs concentration ranged from 10^2to 10^4mg/m³.Food manufacture, timber processing, printing represented the industries with high flow VOCs and their flowrates ranged from 10^4to 10^5m3/h. Non-metallic products manufacture, agricultural and sideline product processing, oil refinery and chemicals manufacture represented the industries with high VOCs concentration ranging from 10^3to 10^4mg/m³.There were more groups of VOCs found in chemical and pharmaceutical manufacture than in other industries. Aromatics, esters, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones were typical VOCs in different industries. The results could be used for evaluating different industrial VOCs sources and selecting of control techniques of VOCs pollution.