Taking Xi’ an City as an example and using statistical data from 1996 to 2005

the landuse change of Xi’ an City during its accelerated urbanization is studied.Firstly

the landuse change of the city is analyzed from different stand-points.The area of cultivated land during the 10 years

as well as that of pasture and idle land

is found to decrease.Moreover

the areas of garden

forest land

population centre

industrial and mining field

traffic field

and water body increase.Therefore

the landuse of the city is in the duration of development and adjustment.After that

by bringing in an index and setting up a regression equation

the correlation between landuse change and urbanization of the city is studied on the ground of analyzing the urbanization.The analysis indicates an increased index

which elucidates that the expansion of population centre

industrial and mining field

and traffic field is quicker than the urbanization.As a result

the lack of land resources has severely retarded the urbanization and will impede it in the future.At last

some suggestions are proposed.