Abstract: The central government of China recently released an important policy document on “building a new socialist countryside", which means advanced production, improved livelihood, a civilized social atmosphere, clean and tidy villages and efficient management. This paper analyzes characteristics, socio-economic driving forces of land-use change in Kunshan, Jiangsu province, China, and discusses the ways of building new socialist countryside and realizing sustainable rural development, from the perspective of land use. Based on remote sensing (RS) maps, change matrix is constructed for detecting land-use change between 1987 and 2000 through pixel-to-pixel comparisons. The outcomes indicate that, to a large extent, land-use change in Kunshan is characterized by a serious replacement of cultivated land with urban and rural settlements, artificial ponds, and construction land. For the whole area, fragmentation of land cover is very significant. In addition, the results of bivariate analysis indicate that industrialization, urbanization, population growth and China?s economic reform measures are four major driving forces contributing to land-use change in Kunshan. Finally, some managerial measures and policy implications for local building new socialist countryside are suggested as follows: (1) carrying out rural construction land consolidation, so as to improve villagers living conditions; (2) implementing cultivated land consolidation to advance agricultural modernization; (3) laying out plan for building new socialist countryside; and (4) innovating the mechanism of sustainable land management.

Key words: land-use change, building new socialist countryside, sustainable rural development, Kunshan

摘要： 结合经济社会、资源与环境数据库，运用双变量统计分析模型分析了昆山市土地利用变化的社会经济驱动力，并从土地利用的视角探讨了昆山市建设社会主义新农村，实现农村可持续发展的途径。研究表明，1987-2000年间昆山市土地利用变化的主要特点是耕地被城镇用地、农村居民点、水面养殖坑塘和工矿交通用地大量占用，土地利用斑块破碎化非常明显。工业化、城市化、人口增长和经济改革措施是期间土地利用变化的主要驱动力。作者提出昆山市在新农村建设过程中应注重： （1） 开展农村建设用地整理，改善农村居民生活环境，实现村容整洁；（2） 通过实施耕地整理，确保粮食安全，推进农业现代化建设；（3） 科学编制城镇发展和新农村建设规划，合理整合土地资源，提高集约用地水平；（4） 创新用地管理机制，加快建立土地利用中农民利益的保障机制，确保农民生活宽裕。

关键词: 土地利用变化, 新农村建设, 农村可持续发展, 昆山市