Abstract: Land use/cover change is an important part of regional change and an obvious form of anthropogenetic effects. Nanchang City is one of the developing regions between Beijing-Guangzhou economic belt and coastal regions. In recent years, the contradiction between human and land use is becoming serious with the rapid development of economy. Based on data of land use/cover change, this paper has studied the characters of land use/cover change in Nanchang city, and the conclusions are given as follows：(1) The pattern of land use is mainly composed of cultivated land, water areas and woodland; (2) There is an increase in construction land and a decrease in cultivated land, so land use change of structure is closely related to urbanization; (3) Both the index of the individual event and comprehensive index in Nanchang City are higher than the average level in China; (4)During the period between 1991 and 2001, land use/ cover diversity index and fractal dimension gradually strengthened gradually,. The trend in the change between 1991 and 1996 was obviously bigger than between 1996 and 2001, but enhancement tendency is weakening at the last period.

Key words: land use, land cover, Nanchang City