Industrial corridors in China have a long history, where several cities are connected by roads or railways, making up a banded industrial area with shared economic development goals. Before 1949, China's industry distribution was very fragmented with small manual workshops, whereas according to the statistics in 2014, 87% of the Chinese provinces have one or more industrial corridors. In total there are 51 industrial corridors in China, which are all supported by the government, and most of them were developed after 2000. This paper first reviews the history of industrial corridor development process in China, focusing on their landscape and environmental features. The paper then examines five representative industrial corridors, where digital technologies were used for analysing video-recording at a constant speed of sampled industrial corridors, exploring the landscape and environmental features. A Matlab program was developed to identify various elements, including industry, landscape, and public facilities, through image processing techniques. The results reveal the present situation of the industrial corridors in China. Moreover, a survey was carried out to investigate the public awareness and evaluation on the environment of those industrial corridors, and through an integrated analysis of survey results and the characteristics obtained by digital techniques, relationships among industrial growth, landscape ecology, government policies, and corridor’s landscape and environmental features have been explored.