Abstract:Urban soils act functionally as an ecological screen in protecting urban environment. As the characteristics of organic pollutants, such as carcinogenic, teratogenic and mutagenic, are perceived by people, a growing attention is paid to soil organic pollution. In the context of lack of relevant environmental quality standard at present in China, we identifyied the surface soil organic pollutants in Shenyang suburbs, evaluated and classified the soil organic pollution quantitatively by factor analysis assessment method. The result shows that benzopyrene, hexachlorobenzene, DDT and BHC have the largest contribution to soil pollution load, and are therefore the main organic pollution factors. Then the factor analysis assessment method is applied, and the organic pollution assessment overall scores of the 34 suburb surface soil sample stations are in the range of 0-224.62, mainly slight and moderate pollution. Results of the evaluation and classification basically consistent with the actual situation. On this basis, we analyzed the main sources of organic pollutants in surface soils, which is of significance in preventing and controlling the organic pollution of the soils, thus ensuring food and water safety.