The mining cities are the main districts to exploit mineral mining resources and make vast contribution to national economic development. But at present, with its staple mineral resources being depleted, ten percent of mining cities have entered the terminal period of exploiting resources, which causes the development of the mining cities stagnating or falling back, and results in a series of social, economic and environmental problems. Facing so many difficult situations, the authors advance some strategies to realize the sustainable development for the mineral resources depletion type of mining cities at a new stage: to design the city transformation; to give full play to the comparative advantages of the area; to moderately rely on national financial aid; to promote the transformation of industrial structures; to emphasize the development of technology productivity.