A reasonable appraisement to the degree of intensive land use for cities and towns is an important means for advancing the managing level

improving the efficiency of intensive utilization and ensuring the sustainable development of city-and-town land.In view of the three dimensions of the investment

efficiency of land use and sustainable use of land resources

a sustainable development model based on intensive land use was constructed and the sustainable development of intensive land use was divided into the four types of sustainability

poor sustainability

nearly unsustainability and unsustainability.Result from the analysis based on the characteristics and existing data of land use for 15cities and towns along the railway in North Xinjiang Wei Autonomous Region shows that the type of sustainable development in the study area belonged to the sustainability.Scientific land use strategy was finally put forward for sustainable development from the perspectives of rational town-level expansion

i.e.

establishing land protection system including economical

administrative and legal means

optimizing regional and town-level land use structure and distribution

frugally and intensively utilizing town-level land and promoting friendly interaction between town-level land use and eco-environment with both prevention and control measures.