Aiming at the problems of large throttling loss of traditional load sensing system(LS) and high difficulty of electro-hydraulic difference compensation control in the research of flow-saturated resistant,independent metering(IM) technology was applied to load-sensing systems,and a new independent metering system resisting flow saturation was designed.The energy saving characteristics were established and analyzed,and compared with the traditional LS system.The result shows that the energy saving effect of the proposed IM system is better than that of the traditional LS system,and when actuators are worked in power retract mode,the energy saving effect is more obvious,which is up to 15.97%.