Abstract: In order to acquire the accurate evaluation results of farmlands’ quality in the region along the Yangtze River in Jiangsu province, this paper uses the calculation method of natural quality scores to pursue this evaluation. The qualities of farmlands in the western of the research region which is located in Ning-Zheng-Yang hilly area are diverse. Every class of farmlands are distributed here and the differences between the areas of each class are small. The qualities of farmlands in the southern of the research region which is located in Taihu Lake plain area are superior. And the qualities of farmlands in the northern of the research region have the features as following: the farmlands in the eastern and western parts are comparatively good, while those in the middle part are comparatively in a low quality. Based on the evaluation results, this paper advances the proposals for the harmonious development between farmland, environment protection and economy elevation from the aspects of exerting the farmland production potentiality, integrative exploitation of the land resource reserves, enhancing economical output rates of the non-farmlands, consummating the restrict mechanism of conversion between farmlands and non-farmlands, developing circular economy and combination of source control and service to overall production process.

Key words: farmlands, farmlands’ quality evaluation, the Region along the Yangtze River, Jiangsu Province