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In this paper, we employ multi-level fuzzy linear regression model to analyze data of manufacturing equipment industry of China in order to discover impact between sales revenue and financial leasing. We also discover credit sale forecasting using this model. We discover that economic leasing has a constructive important effect on sales revenue in total samples, which is consistent with the theoretical framework. However, the results are different in sub-industries, which shows that economic leasing has a constructive and important effect on sales profits in some sub-industries, but some of them are not. Furthermore, we also find that asset characteristics has a substantial effect on financial leasing decision. 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