With the rapid development of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation on a global scale, the world's major economies inevitably have to play a fierce game in the field of high-tech. Based on the relevant data of UN Comtrade and UIBE ADB database , a comparative analysis of the global competitiveness and global value chain position of the equipment manufacturing industry of the world's major economies is conducted. The results show that the overall competitiveness of Japanese and German equipment manufacturing industry is much higher than that of other big countries.The United States has a large variation in some years.China has been in a gradual upward trend, but compared with other major economies in the world, the international competitiveness of China's equipment manufacturing industry is weak.