In order to extend life of salt well, avoid sinking and use the formed cavity reasonably, the factors of effecton cavity stability must be researched during the process of water mining of rock salt, so that the effective prevention measures can be put. The stability of dissolving cavity for the low depth thin layer rock salt has been researched by the ADINA non linear finite element method.The results show that the stability of dissolving cavity obviously becomes strengthened with the decrease of its height, and has a decreasing trendas with the span increase of the cavity . The effect of incidence on stability of the cavity is very little. The stability of cylindroid cavity is higher than that of converse taper cavity. The assorted model is a kind of transition shape. The influencing order of cavity stability is the ffollows, height>geometrical shape>span>incidence.