山东省耕地数量变动态势及驱动因素分析

ultivated land is the soul of land resources. As an economic powerful province and agricultural province in nation, the cultivated land protection of Shandong province not only affected the social stability in rural areas , agriculture’s development, increase of farmers’ incomes and the problem of ecology and environment’s quality, but also influenced the food security of the whole country. After < The Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China > came into force in 1999, Shandong province used a series of policies about cultivated land protection. But the quality of cultivated land also decreased quickly. The paper employs statistic analysis methods study the dynamic change of quantitative and regional differences of cultivated land in Shandong province, based upon which, the major driving forces that influence the changes of cultivated land are discussed. The results offer the evidence to the rational utilization and protection of land resources.