To build a Resource-efficient city, it is necessary to bring into full play the urban func- tions by organizing the structure, especially the spatial structure through planning so as to form a compact urbanization pattern.

This paper discusses the realities of China’s resource-efficient city construction, and then designs the index system to reflect synthetically the development of resources, environment, economics and society of resource-efficient city based on researches of sustainable development, ecological economy, recycling economy and resource-efficient society.

The direction of constructing resource-efficient city is to establishing scientific development view,to insist both exploitation and resource-efficiency,to put more attention on the latter,to establish related system and mechanism,to gradually improve the implement the guarantee system of resource-efficient city construction,and to accelerate persistent development of economy and society.

The evaluation system for resource-conserving city;

Ideas and measures for resources-saving urban green space;

The seminar of National conservation-minded landscape was held in 2006, led the industry throughout the country to build a conservation-minded landscape gardening craze, many articles of the "conservation-minded landscape" have been published.

The correlative problems researching of the water resources developing and utilization and the water-saving city building of Urumuqi;

By analysis of characters of water resources in Dunhuang , this paper discussed the development and utilization ofwater resources , took preliminary studiy on building the water-saving city of Dunhuang, at last ,it proposed the corresponding measures.

In order to relieve the present situation of water resources serious shortage in cities of China, a slogan on developing water-saving city is put forward.