Abstract: The main content of estimation of sustainable development is to ensure human load stay within global carrying capacity. Because humans consume the products and services of nature, every one of us has an impact on the earth.The ecological footprint concept has been designed to answer this question and estimate man's inpact on nature. The ecological footprint of any defined population(from a single individual to a whole city or country)is the total area of ecologically productive land and water occupied exclusively to produce all the resources consumed and to assimilate all the wastes generated by population.The ecological footprint method presents a simple framework for national natural capital accounting. In the paper,we introduced the concept of ecological footprint and its calculation method.And the article calculates and analyses the ecological footprint of Suihua City over recent 10 years. And, we surveyed diversity of ecological footprint and development ability. The ecological footprint ledger is composed of two main sections. The first ledger is basic biotic resources comsumption including its byproducts,the second is energy comsumption.Based on the ecological footprint concept and analysis framework,human consumption can be compared with regional-level natural capital production using existing data.The results showed that the ecological footprints deficit of Suihua City was 0.421ha per capita in 2001 which is declined by 1998 and 1999. And results demonstrated that utilization benefit of resource increased.The method of improving sustainable development of Suihua City is increasing ecological footprint's diversity and reducing footprints.