An investigation of land resources in Shanxi province was conducted by the method cf sampling investigation in planning the soil and water conservation of the Loess Plateau. The sampling point was first located from the topographic map of 1:500

000 in scale on the network of squares

then the information of land resources in the fields were taken at one Ni-lometer intervals

and it made up a controled network of present land utilization of Shanxi province.Based on the principle of forming image by assemling points

a present land utilization map，1:500

000 in scale for Shanxi province is

first compiled.It has provided a complete set of an overall and systematic basic map

for planning soil and water conservation.