Regional development evaluation is a complicated systematic project involving constructing evaluation index system,assigning index weight,standardizing data,designing evaluation index,grading standards evaluation,etc.By taking Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region as a case study,firstly,a framework for regional development evaluation was designed in the three aspects of comprehensive,coordinated,and sustainable developments.Secondly,basic indicators were selected by frequency-statistics method and correlation-analysis method.Thirdly,weights of indicators were assigned by improved analytic hierarchy process(9/9—9/1).Fourthly,the"standard figure" method was put forward in order to make the results comparable in the country-wide range.Fifthly,a set of indexes were designed to evaluate regional development from different perspectives and levels.Finally,the development of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region since 1990 was evaluated using the evaluation system.