Abstract: In response to the serious challenges of national "food security" and "ecological security", the basic state policy of "intensive land use, protecting cultivated land" and the economic development strategic positioning under the situation of "New Normal" that Chinese government put forward, this paper systematically analyzed the concept and connotation of Economic Core Area, and the dialectical relationship between the economical and intensive land use, and pointed out that the Economic Core Areas in China are the main space-carriers of economic growth and urbanization based on the high spatial-temporal matching degree of population, industry and land, which should be the key and promoting subject to realize economical and intensive land use to the whole country or regions. And then, according to the above analysis, this paper systematically cleared out the connotation of economical and intensive land use in the Economic Core Area, and several basic cognitions of economical and intensive land use in China, and pointed out that the extensive economic growth, the real estate market distort, irrational land planning, chaotic land property rights and obligations, incomplete land supply and management are the main causes of the uneconomical and un-intensive utilization of land. At last, the paper pointed out that China should stimulate and implement the mechanism innovation, urban planning innovation, technologies and standards innovation, as well as supervision and management innovation to achieve intensive land use in Economic Core Areas under the situation of "New Normal".

Key words: new normal, economic core area, land intensive use, comprehensive security concept, new-type urbanization