Green innovation is conducive to the sustainable development of China's economy. As an important participant in economic development, the improvement of green innovation efficiency of industrial enterprises is conducive to the realization of green transformation of China's industry. In this paper, the panel time-varying stochastic frontier model is used to measure the green innovation efficiency of industrial enterprises in China's provinces from 2013 to 2017. The results show that: since 2013, the green innovation level of industrial enterprises in China has been improved continuously; the innovation efficiency shows time-varying characteristics, and the whole is continuously optimized with the change of time; from the perspective of regions, there are camera decisions of economic development and environmental management responsibility in each province; from the perspective of regions, there is a certain innovation gap between the East, the West and the East, but there is a convergence trend.