Enterprises' status reflects comprehensive competition and is the basis of discourse power of supply chain. This paper investigates the relationship between enterprises' status and independent innovation capability. The results show that: (1)Enhancing the capability of independent innovation can significantly enhance their status in supply chain; (2)The enhancement of the status may promote the capability of independent innovation in turn; (3)The financial risk level of manufacturing enterprises is an important factor which may have impact on the status of enterprise in supply chain and in the upstream and downstream relationships, and the improvement of customer concentration is conducive to enhancing the status of the enterprise in supply chain while the concentration of suppliers is the opposite; (4)In addition to the impact of supply chain status, the capability of independent innovation is influenced by the overall level of employees, the market environment and the government support and so on.