Under the resource constraints，the economic growth of special economic zones in traditional paths has entered an unsustainable predicament，therefore，finding and exploring the paths to get rid of the shortage of resource supplies and to realize the sustainable development is an urgent need for the development of special economic zones. Green development is the core of transformation development，and its essence is resource saving，whether the emerging industry that takes technological innovation as the connotation or the reconfiguration modes of eliminating backward industries are all in this way. The special economic zones have already begun an important practice in the development path of green transformation. In this paper，we build a green development evaluation indicator system to carry out the quantitative measure of the progresses and levels of the green transformation in the special economic zones，and then，put forward development suggestions.