Abstract: Bymeans of the research on the mineral resources as well as their distribution feature in the time and space within the Qilian metallogenic belt,the status of the mineral resources have been grasped preliminarily.It shows that the mining situation in China,especially in the Qilian metallogenic belt is not hopeful in pace with joining to WTO.Inorder to suit the needs of the economic development,the suggestion about the mineral resources developing in the Qilian metallogenic belt have been posed in the paper,which is to exp and the funds sources from various field of home and abroad,especially creating favou rable conditions in order to drawing the funds from the abroad; the policy of the science and technique vigorously developing mining industry would be in sisted on; and for the purpose of the development in geological exploration in Qilian metallogenic belt,the sp ecial project on prospecting mining resources would benecessary to established.