Abstract: The characteristics of land use transition and its driving factors in Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province from the perspective of the “Production-Living-Ecological” functions were quantitatively analyzed, to explore the laws of land use transition in the city were explored. The geo-information atlas and multi-indicator comprehensive index methods were used to explore the geographic features of land use transition and the spatial-temporal patterns features of recessive forms in Jinzhong City from 2000 to 2020, and the geodetector was used to analyze the drivers of transition. The results showed that during the study period, Jinzhong City was in a state of high-intensity land use transition, and the most significant change in atlas units from 2000 to 2010 was the conversion of agricultural production land to greenland ecological land and rural living land. From 2010 to 2020, the main type of atlas unit was the conversion between agricultural production land and greenland ecological land. The transition index of all districts and counties in Jinzhong City showed a continuous upward trend, forming a “Z” shaped spatial agglomeration in the northeastern part of Jinzhong in 2020. Yuci District, Pingyao County, and its surrounding Shouyang County, Taigu District, Qi County, and Yushe County together formed a “T”shaped high-speed development area. The transition of land use was the result of the combined effects of the natural environment, transport location, and social economy. The natural environment and transportation location had a greater driving force for the explicit transition of land use, while transportation location and socio-economic factors had a greater driving force for the recessive transition.

Key words: “production-living-ecological” function, land use transition, spatiotemporal characteristic, driving factor, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province