Abstract:

Now land resource has become the most important factor to development zones. The government requires all development zones to improve their intensive degree of land use at full steam. Under the guidance of scientific development standpoint,it is necessary to establish the system for economic evaluation of land use in development zones. Development zones give a great impulse to regional economy of Jiangsu Province,but it is facing a challenge in the new development condition. This paper constructed an index system for economic evaluation of land use in development zones and used the system harmony model to get the harmony degree of each development zone on the whole. After computing the harmony degree,the authors analyzed the characters of the result and came to the conclusion that the economic efficiency of land use of the 103 development zones was not high and many zones needed to improve their intensive level of land use. The authors suggested that the spatial layout of the evaluation result had a great regional difference.

Key words: Jiangsu Province, development zones, land use, economic evaluation, harmony model