Intensive utilization of rural construction land is an important part of rural land use, and is one of the important measures to solve the contradiction between supply and demand of land. The paper constructed a set of evaluation indexes to evaluate the intensive utilization degree of rural construction land in Beiyuan area of Linxia County in Gansu Province, using the information on land use intensity, input intensity, and output results, the socio-economic situation and the regional terrain conditions. Then factor analysis method and analytic hierarchy process(AHP) were used to bestow weighting using combination of objective and subjective methods, and sorted the order of the intensive utilization of rural construction land in Beiyuan area using the improved TOPSIS method. The results showed that Tuqiao Town, Xianfeng Township, Hexi Township have the highest land use intensity; Lianhua Town, Beiyuan Township, Anjiapo Township and Qiaosi Township have higher land use intensity while Nanyuan Township and Potou Township have lower land use intensity. The causes of differences were analyzed with the consideration of land utilization, economic and social factors.