The invention discloses a wide-spectrum plant cold-resisting agent for plants such as food crops, economic crops, vegetables, fruit trees, economic trees, flowers, and lawns. The active component of the agent is chitosanoligosaccharide or a derivative thereof. The chitosanoligosaccharide is oligosaccharide of glucosamine linked through beta-1,4-glucosidic bond, and has a molecular weight of 300-10000Da, and a deacetylation degree of 50-100%. The chitosanoligosaccharide derivatives are chitosanoligosaccharide sulfuric acid derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide hydrochloric acid derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide phosphoric acid derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide sulfonamide derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide acyl isothiocyanate derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide phosphoric derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide guanidine derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide nicotinicacyl isothiocyanate derivative, chitosanoligosaccharide-cerium (IV) complex, and the like.