Influence of Urbanization Process on Land Utilization

The influence of urbanization process on land-using of Dongying City was analyzed.The results showed with urbanization level gradually increased(y= 0.01x-25.72,R2=0.97),the main characteristics of land utilization was that the cropland area was reduced by 1 158.2 hm2 per year from 1984 to 2 002 and the residential land and orchard land were increased by 744.4 hm2 and 286.3 hm2 per year during same period,respectively.The analysis between the urbanization levels and different types of land use,showed that there was significant correlation(at 0.01 level) among the cropland,the orchard land, the residential land,the lake and the urbanization level.Their correlation coefficient was more than 0.853.There were regression relations between the urbanization level and all types of land-using and there were linear regression relations between the urbanization level and the 4 types of land-using.