Abstract:The environmental vulnerability has been the issue in the field of international environment, but such domestic study is few. As county is the basic regional units characterized with regional, spatial and administrational independence in china, assessment of the environmental vulnerability at county level is a matter of importance. Based on the requirement of environment management, focused on county level, this paper clarified the attribute of environmental vulnerability, selected evaluation indexes from three aspects of stability, sensitivity and applicability, and established the evaluation models so as to systematically assess environmental vulnerability within county area. The results indicated that the environmental stability of Kenli County was instable, the environmental sensitivity appeared a descend trend and the environmental adaptability showed an uptrend as a whole during 1986-2003. The partial correlation method was adopted to analyze the natural factor sensitivity of Kenli County, and their sensitivity sequence was that the groundwater level>evaporation and precipitation ratio>groundwater salinity>air temperature. Therefore, the natural sensitive factors of the study area were determined as the former three. The results of obstacle degree of regional adaptability indicated that the saline\|alkali soil amelioration rate was the most important obstacle factor during 1986-2003, the restriction of the farmland shelter\|forest density mainly appeared during 1995-1998, and the pesticide and fertilization application became the main obstacle since 2000, and the effective irrigation area ratio and the drainage system area ratio raised as the problem before 1990. The conclusions are that the environmental vulnerability of Kenli County is declining,but still in vulnerable state. At the same time, Kenli County should put the emphases on the development of the sensitive and obstacle factors. The assessment method can find the fundamental reasons and the development process of the County environmental vulnerability, which is significant for the current domestic study.