Abstract:With the rapid development of the economy and growing demand for land, land resources development and utilization are facing a severe situation. The present situation of the development and utilization of the land resources in Laiwu city have been analyzed. There were some problems such as the unreasonable structure layout of the land resource utilization, the reduction of the total amount of cultivated land, the rapid growth of the urban construction land, and the prominent contradiction of the land supply and demand. Some useful exploration and thoughts have been carried out about the optimization of industrial development layout, mining land potential, sustainable development and utilization of land resources.