The gradual improvement of socialist market economic system presents new challenge to the land use planning, an important policy instrument for the state's macro controlling of land. Based on a new understanding of the characteristics of land use planning and the requirement which land use planning faces,this paper puts forward a method system including land evaluation and change of land use, a modeling of land use change and evolvement of ecological environment, and a lawful analysis of land use zoning, along with some proposal for enhancing the study of the methods of land use planning