Abstract: This paper focuses on severalkey issues on principal coastal functional zoning(PCFZ)in provincial levelincluding determination ofboundaries,division of subtunits,establishment of evaluation indicator system,andmethods of evaluation.The results show that the detemmination ofinland boundary is hased on the administrativeborder in the county(city or districts)level,and the sea demarcation is announced bythe provincial govemmentand by 20 m isobath outwards of thecoast of Fujian Province.The subunits division of PCFZ in provincial level in-tegrates thesea area and the concerned inland and takes the administrativejurisdiction of inland and sea areas incoastal county(city or districts)level as an evaluation sub-unit.With 24 basic units of PCFZ in Fujian Provincewhere it has land areas of 27689 km²and sea areas of 13393 km².The evaluation indication system of provincialPCFZ includes23 indications,such as land and sea areas,forest coverage,shoreline per person.The method ofanalytic hierarchy process(AHP)was used to detemminethe weights;and comprehensiveevaluation model was ap-plied to evaluate theresourcesand environment carying capacity(A,),the existing development density (A₂)andthe potential development (A₃).And then hierarchical cluster analysis(HCA)wasused to clasify 4 levelsof low,medium,relatively high,and very high.Finally level of 24 basic units of PCFZ ofFujian Povince was arived.The research results in thispaper generally confomm tothe actual management situationin coastal areaand it canbetaken as reference for PCFZ in other management levels.