Abstract: Three major land use models including ecological tourism, farm planting garden and rural agriculture are identified, based on the information about existing land use ways obtained by the Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Rural Appraisal methods. The complex rural agriculture is further divided into four models, namely, traditional model, grain crops model, multiple management model, and production selling cooperation model. The different land use models are resulted from the interaction between the heterogeneous distribution of natural environment and the diversity of cultural traditions. Models from rural traditional agriculture to ecological tourism are the different development stages of land-use in the special ecological environments. The shift of land use model decreases cultivated land, increases land productivity, promotes biodiversity conservation and sustainable development, and profits the development of excellent traditions as well.

Key words: Land use model, Sustainable development, Biodiversity conservation, fine root, production, turnover, Pinus massoniana