Abstract The landslide disaster outline of Longyan highway in Fujian province,China,is presented firstly. The disaster distribution,deformation characteristics,landslide scale,developing tendency,triggering reasons,disaster degree and stabilizing measures are studied. The disaster types,disaster mechanism and the engineering countermeasures are proposed. Meanwhile,the basic principles and methods to prevent and mitigate disasters of highway landslides in this area are proposed to guarantee the highway operation and safety.