Abstract:The total plan of land use is programmatic document for urban and rural construction and land management. It is the basis for realizing land use controlling mechanism. On the basis of analyzing problems occurred in the process of carrying out totlal land use plan in Rizhao city, elements which will effect the implementation of the general plan have been introduced from economic, technical and policy aspects in this paper, and suggestions for revising and editing total land use plan are put forward as well.