Analysis on relationship and coordination between urbanization and cultivated land resource change of Sichuan province

Based on the tendency analysis of urbanization level and cultivated land resource change from 1978 to 2011 of Sichuan province, the paper studied the theoretical relationship and quantitative model between urbanization and cultivated land resource change, and analyzed the coordination. Results showed: accompanied with the rising of urbanization level in Sichuan province, cultivated land total areas and per person area presented decreasing tendency which possessed stage characteristics; coordinated development between urbanization and cultivated land resource hardly realized under the theoretical framework, as cultivated land area would decrease 5.743 units if urbanization level promoted one unit; coordinated degree between urbanization and cultivated land resource change of Sichuan province showed stage characteristics which presented state of basically coordinate and coordinate to barely coordinate and incoordinate to basically coordinate and comparatively coordinate . Based on these, the paper put forward suggestions on the coordinated development between urbanization and cultivated land resource