Abstract: Coal is named by the "industrial grain",and the coal industry is the essential resources-based industries to our national economy.Over the years,experts and scholars have continued to study the competitiveness of the coal industry,but the studies about its content and features are not many.The paper has given the definition of the coal industry competitiveness,on the basis of the analysis of the characteristics of the coal industry,and then analyzed the coal industry competition and the internal competitiveness of the coal industry,in order to further study the competitiveness of the coal industry for reference.