Abstract: Abstract: The land policy of balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation has been implemented for 10 years and it has played an important role in controlling cultivated land transferring to land for construction. Under the current policy and economic environment, the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation has come forth some new characteristics. This paper analyzed the latest macroscopical trends which related to the land policy of balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation in China, such as food security and cultivated land quality construction, land macro-control and land supervisor system construction, national functional regionalization, balance of urban and rural development and building a new socialist countryside. We summarized new four characteristics such as cultivated land compensated before construction occupation, transferring of the compensated land from land development to land consolidation and rehabilitation, quantity balance turning to quantity and quality balance, regional balance to projects balance and information management for cultivated land approval, supply, occupation and compensation.