The lack or lag of urban geology research is one of the bottlenecks hindering urban development. Based on the characteristics of the output of papers related to urban geology in CNKI database and the development of urbanization in China, we find that the development of China's urban geological research can be divided into five stages: “staggering start” “solid foundation” “pilot investigation” “comprehensive development and precise research”. Then through the analysis of the existing problems in the urban development of Huizhou City, it is believed that the future development of urban geology should be combined with the comprehensive investigation of multi-factor urban geology. This paper manage to establish a conducted criterion for the geological basis of urban planning, according to the safety of urban geology, the monitoring of urban geological disasters, the evaluation of environmental bearing capacity of urban geological resources, the suitability evaluation of land development, the development and utilization of urban underground space resources and the three-dimensional geological modeling of cities ,which are built in depth study.