OBJECTIVE: To establish a method of contents determination of 17 amino acids in Fritillariae Pallidiflorae Bulbus produced in Xinjiang. METHODS: Cation-exchange column was used to separate 17 kinds of amino acids; post-column derivatization liquid chromatography was used to determine the contents of amino acids: the column was strong sulfonic acid cation exchange resin LCAK06/Na with mobile phase A (weighing trisodium citrate 11.9 g, citric acid 6 g, phenol 1 g, dissolving by water, then adding 65 mL of methanol and 6 mL of concentrated hydrochloric acid, bringing the volume with tap water, adjusting pH to 3.4), mobile phase B (weighing trisodium citrate 11.9 g, NaOH 2.8 g, phenol 1 g, boric acid 5.0 g, adding water to dissolve, adjusting pH to 10.8), gradient elution,flow rate was 0.45 mL/min for A pump and 0.25 mL/min for M pump,the detection wavelength was 440 nm for proline and 570 nm for the remaining amino acids,the injection volume was 50 μL. RESULTS: The linear range were 20~400 nmol/mL of aspartic acid,threonine, serine, glutamic acid, glycine, alanine, valine, methionine, isoleucine, leucine, tyrosine, phenylalanine, histidine, lysine, arginine, proline,10-200 nmol/mL of cystine(r were higher than 0.989 0); RSDs of precision, stability and reproducibility tests were lower than 2.0%; limits of detection were 0.16 nmol/mL except for cystine(0.08 nmol/mL); recovery was 98.5%-99.5%(RSD was 0.06%-0.21%,n=6). CONCLUSIONS: The method is simple with good precision, stability and reproducibility, and can be used for the simultaneous determination of amino acids in Fritillariae Pallidiflorae Bulbus produced in Xinjiang.