Photovoltaic (PV) buildings generate electricity through their surfaces, which can reduce carbon emissions during operation by over 30%. The urban PV building industry in China has vast potentials for development. Driven by the carbon peaking and carbon neutralization goals as well as the demand for urban renewal, the industrialized development of the industry holds significant importance for energy transition and carbon reduction in the construction sector. This study analyzes the technical principles and development values of PV buildings, sorts out the current industrialization status of these buildings from the aspects of industrial scale, pattern, policies, and standards. It also identifies the challenges faced by the industrialization, including systematic inadequacy of policies, bottlenecks in technology integration, imperfect market mechanisms, and weak infrastructure. The study further summarizes the key links for industrial development, namely constructing a PV building model suitable for urban renewal, integrating PV buildings into the urban planning system, building a digital urban energy coordination platform, and upgrading the new urban power infrastructure. Using typical PV building projects as cases, this study empirically analyzes the technical and economic feasibility of urban PV building models, and further proposes the following suggestions for the high-quality industrialization of the urban PV building industry: strengthening top-level design and policy coordination, advancing system integration technologies to improve cluster efficiency, improving the market ecosystem to form multi-faceted support, and promoting the implementation of demonstration projects integrated with urban renewal.