Drawing up the overall plan for land use is the guarantee to provide land use for the construction of a well-off society, and is an important measure to strengthen the macroeconomic regulation. The paper describes the three motive forces from the theoretical point of view for promoting this plan:safety in grain production, stable development of economy, and environmental protection. In order to better serve the economic development, the author proposed to divide the overall plan into three phases based on the economic development need:The first is a strategic plan——medium and long term land use plan;the second is a campaign plan——five-year land use plan in concordance with the State's Five-year Plan;the third is a tactic plan——the detailed regional land use plan which is characterized by goal unity, total quantity invariability and dynamical demand. In order to establish a persistent effect mechanism for land use and to prohibit the unjustified appropriation of farmland, the author proposes:The National People's Congress should draw up"the law of land use planning" and"the law of basic farmland protection" ;The tracking of the basic farmland usage using the remote-sensing technology should be established;Land use should be dynamically supervised; Farmland use contract should be signed with farmars.