Evaluation of the Urban Land Intensive Use and It’s Regional Differences in Shaanxi Province Based on GIS

Abstract

With the accelerating process of urbanization in China, the demand for urban land is increasing rapidly; the finiteness of land resources determines that urban land use must take the road of intensive utilization. This paper selected 10 cities in Shaanxi Province as the research object, by establishing an urban land intensive use evaluation index system, which included four aspects of the land’s economic benefits,the investment intensity, the utilization intensity and the degree of sustainable, by the principal component analysis method and the statistical software SPSS, it studied the status of the urban land intensive use and spatial differences of 10 cities in Shaanxi province  by the software SUPERMAP. Results show that the degree of the land intensive use of 10 cities in Shaanxi province is quite different, Guanzhong area shows higher, the northern Shaanxi is the second and the Southern Shaanxi is the lowest; the urban land intensive use degree in Shaanxi province is correlated with the level of economic development and location. Base on these, policy implications are derived that the city government should increase the land investment intensity, improve the economic benefits of land and land use intensity, speed up the economic development, improve the level of the urban land intensive use.