In order to achieve sustainable development of building industry in China especially in Shaanxi province, authors introduced the principles of choosing sustainable development evaluation indexes as well as setting up sustainable development evaluation index system, and also gave the methods of dimensionless evaluation indexes and the distance of space geometry method of sustainable development comprehensive evaluation. According to the real development of building industry in Shaanxi province,authors set up the building industry sustainable development evaluation index system in Shaanxi province, and finally appraised comprehensively building industry sustainable development in 1999～2003 in Shaanxi province using the distance of space geometry method.