Abstract:Linyi city is near Jiangsu province. The former is an old revolutionary base areas and less economically developed cities, while the latter is one of fastest economic development cities. Differences in economic development makes a difference in practices for protecting land. Setting Xuzhou city, Suqian city, Nantong city and Yangzhou city in Jiangsu Province as examples, practices for solving the contradiction between land and rapid economic development in these areas have been analyzed, and compared with practices in Linyi city. Relative countermeasures are put forward to gurantee cultivated land in economically underdeveloped areas.