Abstract: The rural land use planning is a direct means to guide the use of rural land, and it is also the key step to realize and promote the construction and development of the new countryside in China. Based on the field survey of the land use planning mode of D village in northern Zhejiang, this paper makes a study and obtains such results that the villagers participatory land use planning pattern adopted by D village lays emphasis on upgrading the level of participation of the villagers, increasing the participation of the villages and expanding the ways of participation, the performance of planning-making is achieved through the protection from such aspects as organizational support, system construction and ability training. Even so, the villagers participatory land use planning is also faced with such problems as the villagers’ lower degree understanding of the planning, the imperfect villagers’ participation ways, the villagers self-interests threatening the village public interests, the cumbersome planning procedures, and so on. In the future, this pattern of land use planning has to be improved from the following four aspects, i.e., to enhance the villagers’ understanding of the planning, to improve the methods of the villagers’ participation in the planning, to adhere to the concept of public interest in the planning and to smooth and optimize the planning process.

Key words: new rural reconstruction; villagers’ participation; land use planning; system construction