This paper discusses the fundamental issues for wind energy focusing on civil engineering, including reducing construction cost, establishing relevant standards and codes, measuring wind speed and forecasting energy output and mapping wind resources. This paper concludes that as China will have a long period for wind energy development and project construction, it is important to establish guidelines of civil engineering for wind projects, to develop wind measuring and forecasting technique with proprietary intellectual property rights of China, and to survey wind resources and to map the results in nation-scale and province-scale. This paper also prospects researches and land usage for wind projects in accordance with conditions of China and characteristics of wind projects which are beneficial for wind energy development in China.