The rocky desertification monitoring is an important content of the rocky desertification control project，and an important method to analyie and evaluate the project implementation effects scientifically,and to assess the completion situation of every sites. The monitoring layout planning is very important for the rocky desertification monitoring. This paper mainly focus on how to set up the rocky desertification monitoring network system and plot out the monitoring sub region，and arrange monitoring sites reasonably using the integrated monitoring resources of hydrology, forestry, territory, agriculture, environmental pro- tection departments. Monitoring can promptly grasp the rocky desertification dynamic situation and the control effects, which may help to explore good patterns of the rocky desertification control.