[Objective] To study the influence of land use change on the runoff in Xuzhou City from 1983 to 2013, and provide reference for water resources utilization and protection and land use structure adjustment in the city.[Methods] Using the data of land use change derived from Landsat TM/ETM⁺, the spatiotemporal characteristics of runoff were simulated using soil conservation service hydrological model(SCS).[Results] (1) In the years with abundant, normal and scarce rainfalls, the annual runoff depth was found increased by 46, 42, and 38 mm, respectively; (2) The runoff depth ranged from 299 mm to 800 mm. (3) The runoff coefficient was found with the most significant variation as high as 0.3, when forest was transformed to construction lands, other transformation ranged from 0.1 to 0.3; (4) The averaged increases of runoff on different soil moisture conditions ranked as:AMCⅠ >AMCⅡ >AMCⅢ.[Conclusion] The increase of construction land was the major factor that resulted in the increase of the runoff in recent years. The percentage of construction land reached the threshold value of 20% in 2003, which corresponded to the runoff inflection point. Water-covered land, construction land, farmland, and coal mining land were the types with high depth value of runoff, whereas, forest and grass land has the low runoff depth. The transformation from forest to construction land caused the most significant increase of runoff coefficient.