Abstract:Linyi city is a traditional agricultural city with rich land resources. Agricultural land accounted for a larger proportion of the total land area. In recent years, the protection of arable land has been put in the first place in the economic development. Farmland should be used intensively in order to produce more benefit as much as possible. But there are some noteworthy issues that need to be deeply and continuously explored. In this paper, present condition of land utilization in Linyi city has been analyzed, the origin for the reduction of arable land and the protection countermeasures of land resources have been analyzed as well, and relative countermeasures are put forward.