Abstract: This paper based on the basic situation of l7 cities in Shandong province, building the four aspects of the economic benefits of urban land, use degree of urban land, investment intensity of urban land, sustainable development of urban land, including 12 indicators of the evaluation index system, using principal component analysis method, combined with SPSS statistical software, selected four principal components of urban land intensive use. Then with four principal components, combining with the contribution of main composition weighted each factor score, measured the intensive land utilization of l7 cities in Shandong province comprehensively. And in the view of regional spatial development, combined with ArcGIS processing software, researching the intensive land use spatial difference of the current situation of the urban built-up areas of 17 cities in Shandong province, research results show, the extent of the urban land use is quite different; eastern coastal areas show relatively higher, the central cities show the second, and the inland cities of the southwest show the lowest on space ;the difference of the city industrial structure and the economic development level are very important for urban land intensive use.