The Chundu porphyry copper deposit is located at the southern part of the western branch of the Zhongdian copper-polymetallic metallogenic belt. The diorite-porphyrite and granodiorite-porphyry are chronologically dated using zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb method. The zircon grains are light yellow to colorless transparent, tetragonal bipyramid crystals, showing regular rhythmic banding in the cathodoluminescence images which are typical for zircons of magmatic origin. The LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb analyses yield ages of (212±3) Ma (sample B-9, n=13, MSWD=0.23, Th/U ratios of 0.51~0.98) for the diorite-porphyrite, (217±2) Ma (sample B-28, n=21, MSWD=0.31, Th/U ratios of 0.54~3.76) and (218±2) Ma (sample E-9, n=20, MSWD=0.31, Th/U ratios of 0. 5~1.16) for the granodiorite-porphyry respectively. The results show that the Chundu granite was formed in the Late Triassic, a period (237~208 Ma) of massive magmatic activity in the Yidun arc.