Methods for Land Use Planning of China in New Times

The gradual improvement of socialist market economic system presents new challenge to the land use planning, an important policy instrument for the state's macro controlling of land. Based on a new understanding of the characteristics of land use planning and the requirement which land use planning faces,this paper puts forward a method system including land evaluation and change of land use, a modeling of land use change and evolvement of ecological environment, and a lawful analysis of land use zoning, along with some proposal for enhancing the study of the methods of land use planning