In the context of the overall transportation industry moving towards sustainable development, how to promote the sustainable development of highway construction projects by improving the overall level of highway landscape is a problem that highway builders need to think about and solve. This paper selects the Wudu-Jiuzhaigou section of the G8513 Pingmian Highway as the research project and takes the local elements as the entry point to analyze and sort out the classification and characteristics of the local elements. The representative local elements contained in the natural and cultural resources of the project location are extracted. The application ideas and techniques of local elements in highway landscape shaping are summarized. Then, typical application examples are introduced, and finally the role of local elements in promoting sustainable development of highways is summarized and prospected.