The ecosystem-based coastal zone management (EBCZM) is an innovative integrated management concept that can meet the above practical needs. First of all need to start from the practice of China's coastal zone management, illustrates the management (EBM) based on ecosystem level the concept, connotation, development, principles, etc., and puts forward based on extended ecosystem level of Marine management (EBMM) and based on the ecological system of coastal zone management (EBCZM) concept, and from the jiaozhou bay coastal zone ecosystem, the root cause of ecological risk, and the main indicators of closely related to human activities, preliminary established the "based on index system of coastal zone management level of jiaozhou bay ecosystem". KEYWORDS Management based on ecosystem level, Jiaozhou bay, Coastal zone management index system.