The land is an important carrier of urbanization process,while urbanization has a direct impact on the change of land use pattern.This study analyzed the characteristics of the urbanization and land utilization change in Yantai City during 1999-2010.And the functional relationship between urbanization and land use was established by regression analysis.The result showed that:(1)There was a significant functional relationship between urbanization and industrial land,residential land and farmland,forestland.(2)With the advancing of urbanization process,the farmland area was decreasing,while the residential and industrial land area increased significantly.(3)Urban construction land area increased excessively.