Twenty-nine index data are chosed to evaluated the current situation of human settlement environment of 286 Chinese cities by the factor analytic method.The current situation and its regional difference of urban human settlement environment in China is exposed.The results indicate that:(1)The situation of Chinese urban human settlement environment as a whole is low.Among the 286 cities,there are only 119 cities which comprehensive score of the urban human settlement environment greater than 0,the percentage is 41.6%.(2)The situations of human settlement environment in different cities have significant difference.The gap between the highest comprehensive score and the lowest is near 5.And the comprehensive score of majority of the cities concentrate in (-0.5,0.5).(3)With regard to region difference aspec,the easten and westen cities surpasses the cities in the midddle region,and the difference of the situation of urban human settlement environment in different provinces is remarkable.