Abstract: At present, the measurement method of consolidation potential of hollow village residential area can not measure the ecological environment improvement potential of hollow villages, then impacting on rural revitalization. To solve this problems, this paper adopted normative analysis method to redefine the micro-definition of rural residential consolidation potential based on realizable angle, in order to express the importance of ecological environment improvement potential. On the other hand, the comparative analysis method was adopted to analyze the connotation composition of potential under various methods of rural residential potential measurement, and according to the specific situation of the rural residential hollow in the study area, a method of calculating the realizable consolidation potential based on the classification method of ecological-living-industrial land was proposed. The ecological land category, other land category, the safe idle category, the unsafe use category, the unsafe idle category and the unsafe abandoned category in the production or living land were identified as the consolidation potential. According to the realizable degree of land consolidation, it was divided into three kinds of potentials： easy realization potential, realizable potential and difficult realization potential. In the end, the residential consolidation potential of Nanyang village of Shanxi province was calculated for demonstration. The results show that this calculating method and micro-definition of the potential of rural residential consolidation can analyze the realizable point of potential components and measure the actual potential, and also can protect the village internal ecological environment and promote the rural ecological revitalization.

Key words: ecological environment, rural residential land, consolidation potential, classification of ecological-living-industrial land, realizable point, Nanyang village