Sand and gravel is an essential material for construction engineering. The sand and gravel industry is closely related to public. Meanwhile, the average amount of sand and gravel used for year per person is an indicator of the developing degree of the country. This purpose of this report is to describe the challenges, such as the operation strategies at home and abroad, the change and impacts of environment and market, for sand and gravel industry in the past decade. For improving the competitiveness of the sand and gravel industry greatly, it depends not only on the adjustments of business strategies, but also on the assistances and cooperation from government departments. To the end, many suggestions were provided to related governmental agencies and industries.