This article is adapted from Mr.Xiao′s reflections after he attended the IALE ’95 world congress held in Toulouse,France.He hold that contemporary landscape ecology shares the same ‘hot points’ with modern ecology (i.e. Global Change,Biodiversity,and Sustainable Development etc.).In the mean while,Landscape Ecology has its own characteristics,which include:1)Eco spatial Theory and landscape heterogeneity;2)Dynamic landscape model and future landscape planning;and 3)Landscape system analysis and GIS application etc.On account of the difference in economic development and thus in social eco ideology among countries and areas,landscape ecology development is substantially unequivalent.Developing countries like China are far behind the western world in methodolgy,measurements and applications.