Abstract: Construction of intelligent coal preparation plant is of vital strategic significance to promoting China coal preparation industry's supply-side structural reform, building the sector's new competitive superiorities, and realizing a powerful country in coal preparation undertakings.Following an analysis of the problems existing in the design of coal preparation plants in the intelligentization age, the thoughts on design of intelligent plants, as well as the idea and the prospect of the design of such plants are proposed, in a bid to expedite the further development in plant design and hence quicken the pace in construction of intelligent coal preparation plants.