Abstract:

Small town is an important component of China's urban system.The improvement of small towns' land intensive use not only alleviates the current problems in the developing of small towns,but also promotes the healthy development of small towns.On the basis of previous research on urban land intensive use,an comprehensive evaluation index system of small towns' land intensive use was constructed by carefully analyzing the connotation of small towns' land intensive use.This index system was utilized in Xinghua to evaluate small towns' land intensive use level and to study its influencing factors by factor analysis way.Then two main conclusions could be made after research.For one thing,there was obvious spatial difference in towns' land intensive use level,which indicated that all towns in Xinghua could be divided into five categories: the highest level land intensive use towns,higher level land intensive use towns,middle level land intensive use towns,low level land intensive use towns and nonintensive land use towns.And the spatial distribution pattern of small towns' land intensive use in Xinghua showed a decreasing trend from south to north in general and formed by towns of Dainan,Zhaoyang and Daiyao as center to the periphery and gradually decreasing in detail.For another,with further analysis about the influencing factors of small towns land intensive use level,all towns in Xinghua could be divided into four types:land use efficiency constraint towns,land use degree constraint towns,infrastructure constraint towns and land use sustainability constraint towns according to the particularly affecting situation of the influencing factors on small towns.Finally and most importantly,all towns in Xinghua shuld choose targeted measures to effectively improve land intensive use level in future based on their main constraints of land intensive use.

Key words: small towns/ land intensive use/  comprehensive evaluation/ Xinghua City