The database construction of resources and environment science of Chinas surrounding countries is the basic task for resource environment problem research and macro decision-making. The level of database con-struction of resources and environment science of surrounding areas is lower than that of developed countries be-cause of China's complex geopolitical relationship with other countries. However, the Ministry of Science and Technology, China Academy of Sciences, the National Development Bank and the various ministries have launched resources and environment science database construction work at global, continental or national scale in the past 2-3 years. The national strategy of promoting economic zone of Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road Construction puts forward higher, more urgent request to the database construction of resources and envi-ronment science of surrounding areas. This paper firstly provided an overview of the significant requirement of government and scientific research, summarized the most recent developments and ideas in large scale scientific datasets and platforms formed by USA, European Union, and international organizations. Then, the recent prog-ress of the construction of resources and environmental scientific datasets were comprehensive reviewed and the problems existed were discussed. Finally, the general strategies for establishing resources and environmental da-tabase were introduced, including metadata standards design, data quality control, dynamic updating approaches, etc. For the basis and demand of our country, the content of surrounding countriesresources and environment science database should highlight geopolitical issues and macroeconomic policy-making researches, and we should construct a database covering both natural sciences and humanities at multi-scales. On the information processing and service mode, we should use advanced and mature space information technology to enhance the services of the data comprehensively.