Abandoned mines occupy land resource， and bring many ecological environment problems； thus， ecological restoration of abandoned mines is imminent. Currently， investment for mine ecological restoration is inadequate at various government levels， and social capital is urgently needed. Through a case study of market-oriented ecological restoration of mines in Jiangxi province， analysis is conducted of the direction of development and utilization of ecological restoration of abandoned mines and the applicable scope of the different ways of restoration， and it is made clear how the social capital investment participates and gets revenue in the operation of the ecological restoration of， providing a reference for regional market-oriented ecological restoration of mines.