THE URBANIZATION PROCESS IN SICHUAN PROVINCE AND FARMLAND PROTECTION
The urbanization of Sichuan province has entered a rapid development period, but it caused an increas-ingly contradiction between the constructive land and arable land due to a lot of arable lands were taken up. The farmland protection situation faced a great challenge. In this study, Sichuan province was took as an example, and the methods of literature analysis and systematic survey were used to study the issue of between urbanization and farm-land protection. The results showed that:in recent years, the urban construction in Sichuan province had made great progress, for example, the industrial structure was constantly optimized, the population of urbanization increased ev-ery year, the scale of urbanization was expanding. But with the rapid development of urbanization, arable land de-creased annual 28 000 hectares from 2010 to 2012. Some suggestions were proposed to realize the coordinated devel-opment of town construction and farmland protection, such as to rationally plan the land, establish and improve the farmland protection system, increase land reclamation development, improve people′s awareness of the protection of farmland, improve land utilization, positively develop agriculture, and promote agriculture to industrialization.
farmland protectionurbanizationcoordinated developmentSichuan provinceconstruction land