This paper establishes an evaluation index system of circular economy, and applies entropy to evaluate the circular economic development level of China and all provinces in 2003-2016, and compares the variance in pilot provinces and non-pilot provinces, and employs GIS to discuss their spatial patter evolution. The results show a sharp rising level but still in low stage, provincial level is 16.1% lower than the whole country. Province variance is diminishing. Circular economic development level of the whole country is chiefly limited by resource consumption and resource comprehensive use level. Pilot provinces (cities) bear a feature of fast then slow speed, but always faster than non-pilot provinces (cities) since 2006, where the resource consumption level variance is the largest. The high development level regions of circular economy transfer to the eastern coast and central China from western and northern, whilst the low level show a localized concentration to dispersed spatial evolution, relatively low and medium level are mutually transforming.