Presently, the construction of coal energy base has become an important aspect influencing the economic development of our country.This essay conducts an preliminary approach to the thinking and working methods in carrying out comprehensive territorial planning in the coal-mine area.Based on the evaluation of areal coal resource and other natural resources and geographical division and co-operation of production within an even broader spatial scope, it expounds the basic principles in rationally determining the regional economic structure and the allocation of production, and points out that, with special respect to the different characteristics of the three developing stages in the coal-mine area, it is necessary in research to put great attention to the influence of water resource and transportation condition, to place coal industry, electricity industry, metallurgical industry, chemical industry and building material industry as the main economic departments, to keep harmonious and balance among the key items of these industries and the integrated economic development and to convert these planning schemes to practical action both in time arrangement and in spatial allocation so as to make these schemes become the scientific guidance to the economic construction of the coal-mine area.