Abstract:

As an important base for regional economical development, a development zone means a great deal in driving the development of regional industry and improving the urbanization level. However, because of malfunction orientation, sameconfiguration of industry, and lowefficiency to some extent in the use of land, the effect of scale and convergence in development zones is not obviously embodied. The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the land use intensity in different development zones in Jiangsu Province by fixed quantificaiton method in order to make the standard of land intensity and put forward countermeasures to improve the level of land use intensity in development zones. Method of statistical analysis and Delphi were employed in this article. The result of the paper suggests that the level of land use intensity in development zones in Jiangsu Province is rather high, while at the same time the level of land use intensity is different in different development zones and even in the same development zone. Also, the level of economic development, the industry policies and the structure of land use are the three main factors affecting the level of land use intensity in development zones in Jiangsu province. So, a conclusion is gained that it is necessary to adjust the policies of industry and land use structure, and to make corresponding policies for the full use of land in development zones based on the present economic situation and the development direction and in accordance with the relative and the utter land use intensity and the resource consumption situation.

Key words: land use intensity, relative intensity level, utter intensity level, development zone