The framework of the planning method for ecological corridor in historical and cultural cities is: having a clear idea of the general layout of ecological corridor in the area, the ecological patches and traditional historical and cultural sites in the region, finding out the relationship between the urban and rural industrial development, the natural ecology, the regional historical and cultural heritage and the urban ecological corridor planning, and then exploring a new idea of rationally utilizing the surrounding natural resources and human resourcesand promoting the development of the first and the third industries centering around the urban ecological corridor. The specific planning and designing steps should be: to get the basic data required on various open source platformsand to work out the layout of ecological and human elements through GIS or CAD data visualization transformation; to determine the ecological corridors on different planning levels, and select as the major part of planning the ecological corridor which most efficiently integrates various elements; to analyze the ecological characteristics, human resources and industrial characteristics along the planned ecological corridor, and formulate detailed guidelines for the ecological landscape, human resources, tourism development, and industrial development along the corridor.