Traditional resource use and environmental management has increasingly unable to meet people's pursuit of material and spiritual civilization. Resource-saving and environment-friendly society is the new demands of modern regional planning. Ecological civilization is bound to be the best choice to reflect this concept. To understand the ecological civilization construction methods and tracking evaluation mechanism will provide basis for ecological civilization construction. However, there exists little information from the research of ecological civilization. At present, the study of ecological civilization focused on the following three areas: the content of ecological civilization construction, ecological civilization construction methords and ecological civilization indicators for tracking evaluation system. This paper reviews the nation's current main features of ecological civilization, by using indicator importance to assess the value of important ecological civilization and the importance of selecting evaluation indicators. The above progresses on ecological civilization were summarized and the problems that need to be studied further in the future were also put forward.