Abstract: In order to examine the differences of rural land transfer and to enrich the cognition of the scale effect of land transfer, town was used as the unit for exploring the characteristics of cultivated land transfer. Based on the economic data of 24 towns in Jiangjin District of Chongqing from 2007 to 2012, the spatial-temporal changes of the form, object and scale of cultivated land transfer were analyzed by statistical analysis. In addition, the effects of natural location, economic level, resource endowment, agricultural policy and market on cultivated land transfer at town level were also analyzed by using principal component analysis and Logistic multivariate regression analysis. The results indicated that in the study area, the forms of town-level cultivated land transfer were diversified. Furthermore, lease and subcontract were two major transfer forms from 2007 to 2012 in these towns. For the transfer object, most cultivated land was transferred to farmers, followed by enterprises and specialized cooperatives. The annual difference of the scale of cultivated land transfer at town level was obviously and its changing trend was diversified. The main changing trends of cultivated land transfer were “increase-decrease-increase” and “consecutive increase”. The scale of cultivated land transfer at town level was in a random distribution with a decreasing autocorrelation. The overall pattern of spatial association of cultivated land transfer at town level was unstable. As for the driving factors, agricultural laborers and commercialization rate in breeding industry were the major factors affecting cultivated land transfer. Land transfer rate showed an increasing trend with the decrease of agricultural laborers, while with the increase of commercialization rate. Moreover, fixed asset, cultivated land per capita, and urbanization rate also had significantly positive effect on the scale of cultivated land transfer at town level. Finally policy strategies were put forward to facilitate land transfer with consideration to the demands of different development levels and characteristics of different towns.