The area of loess plateau covers 45 per cent of total area of shaanxi province .the disaster of landslide and col-lape occors frequently at the slope of loess plateau, whicL produces serious damages to the daily life of the local peo-ples and national economic development each year. The chracteristics of topography and geology of loess plateauhave been discussed, formation factor and deformation mechanism of landslide have also been analysed. The au-thors orooosed strateeies to orerent landslide in loess nlaleau.