Abstract: With a comparison between the reinforced soil type retaining wall and counterfort type retaining wall plans for the coal receiving pit in Chang xu coal mine，a design plan with the counterfort type was determined. The counterfort type retaining wall was calculated with a software computation and manual recheck method in order to ensure a strictness and reliability of the computation and analysis results of the retaining wall. Thus the computation results could more rationally guide the structure design of the retaining wall.