This paper, based on China's sand & clay ores managing policies from 1982—2017, discusses the overall trend and evolutional features of state sand & clay ores managing policies by analyzing them from the four perspectives of policy documental types, year, intensity and quantity. It also analyzes the existing issues in China's sand & clay ores managing policies and provides suggestions accordingly through establishment of a 2D framework of policy tool- policy function and code and count frequency of policy contents. The results show that China's sand & clay ores managing policies embody a structural imbalance of the environmental policy tool, which needs to optimize the structure environmental policy tools, strengthen the impulse of supply policy tools, and increase the traction of demand policy tools.