Abstract: Based on the effect of the cultivated land resources investigated by satellite remote sensing in Xinjiang, this paper expounded the distinguishing characteristics of the cultivated land resources in Xinjiang (including mesoyeild and low yield cultivated land and wastelands suiting for cultivation). The influential factors forming mesoyeild and low yield cultivated land and the restricting condition of wastelands suiting for cultivation are analysed. In order to carring on development of agriculture in Xinjiang and proceeding from the situation as a whole, the paper puts forward some thoughts that includes to combine rational development of the land resources with the ecological environment construction, to adhere to the macroscopic strategy thought of the agriculture development, to carry out the strategy measure to transform mesoyeild and low yield cultivated land in long term, to persist in the guiding principle to economize on water, and so on.

Key words: Xinjiang, cultivated land resources, remote sensing