By taking a typical loess hilly-gully area—Zhaozhuang village in Yan'an City as a study area and selecting indexes such as dynamic degree of landuse

trend-state index of landuse

and landscape index of landuse

dynamic changes of landuse were analyzed quantitatively on village scale.Results showed that landuse in the study area changed to some extent during the past 6 years

which was characterized mainly by decreased farmland and increased unused land.Unused land

resident-construction land

forest land

and shrubby and grass land increased in varying degrees and their dynamic degrees were 43.92%

15.35%

0.33%

and 0.17%

respectively.Farmland

orchard

and water area decreased in different degrees and their dynamic degrees were 7.45%

3.79%

and 0.20%

respectively.The trends of farmland

orchard

and water area dropped

while the trends of unused land

resident-construction land

forest land

and shrubby grassland raised

which scales were increscent.Patch number and patch density increased.The dominance index and deviation index decreased while the indexes of diversity

evenness and fragmentation increased to some extent.