Intensive utilization of rural construction land is an important part of rural land use

and is one of the important measures to solve the contradiction between supply and demand of land. The paper constructed a set of evaluation indexes to evaluate the intensive utilization degree of rural construction land in Beiyuan area of Linxia County in Gansu Province

using the information on land use intensity

input intensity

and output results

the socio-economic situation and the regional terrain conditions. Then factor analysis method and analytic hierarchy process(AHP) were used to bestow weighting using combination of objective and subjective methods

and sorted the order of the intensive utilization of rural construction land in Beiyuan area using the improved TOPSIS method. The results showed that Tuqiao Town

Xianfeng Township

Hexi Township have the highest land use intensity; Lianhua Town

Beiyuan Township

Anjiapo Township and Qiaosi Township have higher land use intensity while Nanyuan Township and Potou Township have lower land use intensity. The causes of differences were analyzed with the consideration of land utilization

economic and social factors.