Abstract Based on the provincial data, this paper uses a two-stage network SBM model to measure the efficiency of industrial green innovation from 2008 to 2017 in China.The empirical results indicate that although the R&D efficiency has been improved to some extent in recent years, the R&D efficiency and the transformation efficiency of technological achievements are still at a low level, and the trend of two-level differentiation within regions is obvious. And there is a strong positive spatial correlation between financial agglomeration and two-stage industrial green innovation efficiency.Therefore,financial agglomeration can only promote the efficiency of R&D, but it is not obvious in the stage of technological achievement transformation. The spatial spillover effect of financial agglomeration only exists in the stage of technological achievements transformation.