Resource-based cities use their own resources to develop economy,but at the same time,their environment is damaged on different degrees.Large-scale structural unemployment has brought unprecedented employment pressure to resource-based cities.Based on the panel data of 115 resource-based prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2016,this paper uses the system GMM analysis method to analyze how environment regulation affects employment in detail,and carries out regression analysis for different development stages and resource types of resource-based cities.The results show that(1)the intensity of environmental regulation in resource-based cities has a significantly negative impact on employment.(2)For resource-based cities at different stages of development,the degree of influence changes from strong to weak in order:recession type,mature type,growth type and regeneration type.(3)The impact of the intensity of environmental regulation in mining cities on employment is significantly negative,and the intensity of environmental regulation in forest industry has no significant impact on employment.Finally,based on the analysis results,this paper proposes to reasonably formulate environment protection standards based on the relationship between environment regulation and employment,achieve the goal of environment improvement while ensuring employment,and achieve the coordination and unity of economic,ecological and social benefits of resource development.