An investigation of land resources in Shanxi province was conducted by the method cf sampling investigation in planning the soil and water conservation of the Loess Plateau. The sampling point was first located from the topographic map of 1:500,000 in scale on the network of squares,then the information of land resources in the fields were taken at one Ni-lometer intervals, and it made up a controled network of present land utilization of Shanxi province.Based on the principle of forming image by assemling points, a present land utilization map，1:500,000 in scale for Shanxi province is, first compiled.It has provided a complete set of an overall and systematic basic map,for planning soil and water conservation.