Abstract: Beijing's urban construction has been gradually extended to mountain area. The complex nature geological conditions and engineering geological conditions of the shallow mountain put forward higher requirements of geotechnical engineering investigation and evaluation. In this paper, according to the actual engineering from the engineering geological characteristics of the shallow mountain, the topography, landfrom, formation lithology and lithology substance component, bad geology function and engineering geological conditions is analyzed The engineering geological problems of the shallow mountains are slope stability, uneven settlement under complicated geological conditions, and special soil. Design should be based on the geotechnical engineering condition, and avoiding the formation of high and steep slope, reducing the difficulty and cost of foundation treatment and other aspects optimization design, attention to surface drainage measures and environmental protection.According to the uneven ground treatment methods are mainly structural measures, artificial replacement foundation, composite foundation, pile foundation.