Intensive Use of Village Land in the Course of Rural Urbanization of Jiangsu Province

The purpose of the paper is to find problems in rural land use and to explore driving forces and ways of intensive use of rural land by studying the area change of villages in Jiangsu Province since 1990 in the course of urbanization.Methods of documentation and statistics were employed.The decrease of rural population went with the increase of land for rural construction.Both land for construction and rural residential land expanded in Jiangsu.Internal and external factors resulted in the area change of villages.The external factors involve urban expansion,the increase in infrastructure land and the influence of macro-policy.The interior change of land for construction is the major internal factor.The rural land use shall be facilitated to achieve a harmonized rural development and intensive use of land resources.