Study on Intensive Land Use and Urbanization Development in Gansu Province

Urbanization is the inevitable requirement and result of industrialization development,in the other hand,urban land intensive use is necessary for the development of city.Urban land intensive use and optimization distribution are not only directly related to rationality and validity of urban land use,but also influence the development of our country's economy and society.However,along with the rapid development of urbanization trend,the contradiction between the urbanization and the land utilization is getting more and more obvious and tensity.Starting from the angle of urbanization development the intrinsic relations betweenGansu's urbanization and land utilization were studied.It was concluded that the total land usestructure,urban land use interiorstructureand land utilization efficiency are important factors that affect the intensive land use of Gansu Province.In the study the method of principal component analysis was adopted to calculate the urban land intensive use of 16 cities in Gansu Province with the formation of the index system of urban land intensive use.Then,the calculation results were graded.Based on these research,the existing problems were found and analyzed,and some counter-measures were put forward for harmonious development of urbanization and land utilization.