With the growth in the people’s living standard, the demand of resources is more and more, which leads to continuous exploitation of a large number of mineral resources in our country so that there are many ecological problems. In this paper, the ecological impacts of strip mining in desert steppe are analyzed from such aspects as plant and animal resources, land resources as well as landscape through field investigation in project area by taking the strip mining project in Dongkekeyiligeng mining area of Darhan Muminggan Liahheqi in Inner Mongolia as an example. Moreover, the suggestions on ecological conservation measures of strip mining are put forward based on the theory of restoration ecology.

desert steppe  /  strip mining  /  ecological conservation