The invention provides a virtual network mapping method based on a principle of proximity. In the method, when a substrate network node is selected in node mapping, not only is available resource taken into account, but also whether the principle of proximity is satisfied is taken into account, namely whether link connection exists between the substrate network node and the substrate network node which is successful in mapping; and in addition, a mechanism that a node is lined up according to the remaining resource in the virtual network node mapping and a mechanism that a link is lined up according to the bandwidth before the virtual network link mapping are introduced into the method. The virtual network mapping method based on the principle of proximity provided by the invention is suitable for the networks which are already used or are going to use a network virtualization technology to perform network segregation, resource management scheduling or customized service providing, such as an experiment network, an operator network. The virtual network mapping method based on the principle of proximity has the characteristics of low complexity of link mapping, high utilization ratio of the substrate network resource, high success ratio of the virtual request mapping, and the like.