We analyzed land use changes of Chongqing City during the last 10 years

and then built a landuse evaluation system

considering both regional geographic characteristics and the requirement of quantitative evaluation.The results showed that the area of farmland decline sharply between 1999-2008

accounting for a net decrease of 293 679.7 hm2.Meanwhile

the area construction land increased substantially by a total of 74 334.1 hm2.Both the structure of landuse configuration and the degree of land utilization decreased

from 0.713 2 and 0.114 3 in 1999 to 0.294 2 and 0.038 7 in 2008

respectively.Land use conflicts highlighted the low intensification degree of landuse in the study area.Land use efficiency and utilization benefit increased significantly from 0.065 5 and 0.046 7 in 1999 to 0.447 2 and 0.301 1 in 2008

respectively.However

the overall efficiency is still relatively low

indicating that the land productivity can still be improved potentially.Landuse performance value was still relativity low

but its trend was keeping increasing steadly

similar the changes of social economical development and natural environmental condition.Chongqing City is moving towards in a development direction of reasonable and sustainable land use.