Advances in Resear ches on Relations between Cultivated Land Change and Socio- economic Development
耕地变化与社会经济发展关系研究进展

It is very important both to theories and practices to study the inherent mechanism of relations between cultivated land change and socio-economic development, because the serious loss of cultivated land during the stage of rapid economic development has been paid more and more attention to by government and society. Based on the brief review of study on the impact of economic development on cultivated land area reduction, the impact of economic development on cultivated land quality change, the socio-economic driving forces of cultivated change, and the impact of cultivated land change on food security, and combined with China's special conditions that too many people have too little land and with the actual situation of China's current study, this paper analyzed the problems in study on the relations between cultivated land change and socio-economic development, such as the accuracy of data, the problems of spatial and temporal scales, the uniformity of index system, the research model and etc. This paper also discussed the research trends in future, such as making a through study on the inherent mechanism of cultivated land conversion, strengthening the innovation and breakthrough of research methods, making more research on the social and ecological values of cultivated land, and developing applied research.