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As the communication and cooperation in life insurance industry across the Taiwan Strait are becoming deeper, it is necessary to have a deeper research on the efficiency of life insurance industry across the strait. This paper applies stochastic frontier approach extend from Zhou et al. (2012) to estimate the input factors efficiency of the 90 life insurance companies from 2006 to 2011. We treat the number of employees, shareholder's equity, and the liability as the input factors, while the operating revenue as the output factor. Our major empirical findings are as follows: The average labor efficiency score of Taiwan areas is higher than that in mainland China. Companies in mainland China get a better average liability efficiency score than those in Taiwan. The average shareholder's equity efficiency scores in the two areas are quite close, while companies in Taiwan do a little bit better. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]