Abstract: Since the reform and opening of policies in early 1980s, the economic development of our country is astounding. However, because the development path was not so scientific and intensive, which led the shortage of all kinds of resources, especially the land resources. These issues reversely are restricting our country's development, affecting people's life, and gradually attracting the attentions of people. Regarding the current situation of land resources in the cities are in severe shortage, but a lot of marginal areas are used in inefficient way even wasted very seriously, and combing the urgent demand of building economic-type society, thus we adapted the ideology of economic-type landscape design, i. e, investigating the marginal areas of a city, analyzing the necessity and feasibility of landscape utilization of marginal areas, and summarizing the major principles of landscape utilization of marginal areas. Using Sheraton Spring Hotel in Haikou City, Hainan Province as a case, this paper discussed the application of landscape utilization of marginal areas in the landscape design, which may provide the reference for the landscape utilization of other marginal areas in the city.