[Objective] The objective of this study is to analyze the land use change and the influences of policy factors on land use change in mining area in order to provide scientific support for the sustainable use of regional land resources. [Methods] This paper took Xuejiawa, Ningwu County as the study area, by using the RS and GIS technology, and used the remote sensing images of 1990, 2005 and 2013 as data sources to quantitatively analyze the land use dynamic changes and the land use degree of the study area in two different periods of 1990—2005 and 2005—2013, and to analyze the major policy driving forces in land use of the study area. [Results] The mining land increased greatly from 1990 to 2013. The results demonstrated that the comprehensive dynamic degree of the land use from 2005 to 2013 was higher than that from 1990 to 2005. As for the single dynamic degree of land use in the two periods, the mining land showed the highest variability among all land use types, with the variability in the previous period was far greater than the later period. [Conclusion] From 1990 to 2013, land use change was in recession generally. The mining industry policies are the driving forces of land use change in the study area, ecological environment protection policies and arable land protection policies also profoundly affect land use change in Xuejiawa Township.