Dali is a national historical and cultural city, Yunnan tourist resort. Xiaguan district is the Dali tourism distribution service base, surrounded by hills, against the background of Erhai Lake, with a high quality external space environment. To shape the landscape of the city's image with the plateau is crucial. The city building height of Xiaguan district is one of the key factors to city style featuring. Based on research and analysis of current situation, this study firstly summarizes status basic characteristics of urban building height of Xiaguan district, secondly widely learns from the research on control method about urban building height, especially for rich natural landscape, heavy history and culture region, refines the "basic model plus correction model" for height control technology framework. Finally, by GIS technology and CAD overlay multi-factor cross sectional analysis techniques, the methodology is applied to build process of building height, for generating building height control guidance sheets and control zoning map to provide reference to the building height control for detailed planning.