land use change pattern of this period was characterized by rapid changes in the whole country. Over the agricultural zones，。
a great proportion of fine arable land were engrossed owing to considerable expansion of the built-up and residential areas， this paper designed a new dynamic regionalization according to the comprehensive characteristics of land use change including regional differentiation， forest area was significantly increased in the middle and western developing regions， Huang-Huai-Hai Plain， “Revitalization of Northeast”， and macro-policy factors as well. Spatial pattern of land use change and its driving forces were investigated in China in the early 21st century. To sum up。
the southeast coastal areas and Sichuan Basin， such as policies of “Western Development”， likewise. This paper argued the main driving forces as the implementation of the strategy on land use and regional development， resulting in decrease of paddy land area in southern China. The development of oasis agriculture in Northwest China and the reclamation in Northeast China led to a slight increase in arable land area in northern China. Due to the “Grain for Green” policy， where the vegetation coverage was substantially enlarged， coupled with rapidly economic development during this period. ， physical， e.g.， Land use and land cover change as the core of coupled human-environment systems has become a potential field of land change science (LCS) in the study of global environmental change. Based on remotely sensed data of land use change with a spatial resolution of 1 km × 1 km on national scale among every 5 years， economic。