The research is conducted based on the geographic information tupu analytic method and Markov analysis and transfer matrices. Using this method, the paper has made the tupu analysis of evolution of spatial pattern of cultivated land resources in Jianghan plain between 1980 and 2010.With the support of tupu analysis method, this paper also has measured the regional difference of dynamic of cultivated land with the research area counties. The result shows that, during 1980 to 1990, the led type of regional.land transfer was conversion of arable land to water. On the contrary, during1990 and 2000...