Abstract:Cultivated land is the land for growing crops and a basic resource for human survival conditions. In this paper, the pattern of temporal and spatial distribution of cultivated land resources in Shandong province has been studied by using the Shandong Statistical Yearbook (2001—2015) data and GIS technology. It is showed that the cultivated area during the period of 2000—2013 is on the rise as a whole, which is divided into two stages of decay and adjustment. Cultivated land has a tendency to fall after 2012, which is worthy of attention. From the point of view of the stage characteristics of cultivated land resources, the cultivated land resources of the whole province present the characteristics of the west more eastern less and the land reclamation rate of growth shows the trend of expansion to the East. From the point of view of the whole distribution of cultivated land resources, the average annual growth rate of cultivated land area in Shandong Province during 2000—2013 is 1.11%, the average annual growth rate of south region of Shandong is up to 1.45% slightly, and land reclamation rate is up to 60.03%, the highest in the northwest of Shandong. Cultivated land area is the most widely in Weifang city. The colonization rate of Liaocheng city is the biggest, which is 67.10%, and about 2/3 of the land is cultivated land.