Study on the Characteristics of Land Use Change in Jinzhong City

Based on the data of land use from 1996 to 2004 in Jinzhong city,the characteristics of land use change in the district were analyzed.The results showed:(1) The area of cultivated land,grassland,other agricultural land and water conservancy land were decreasing.The area of forest land,horticultural land,settlement and mining land,transportation land and unused land were increasing.Other land hadn't any change.The area change of grassland was the most.(2) The single degree of land use change can be ranked as:grasslandtransportation landunused landother agricultural landforest landsettlement and mining landcultivated landhorticultural landwater conservancy landother land.(3) Different types of land use might have different spatial variety of relative land use change degree.Grassland was the land use type of most spatial variety of relative land use change degree.Cultivated land had the least spatial variety of relative land use change degree.