Dynamic change in land use in Suzhou between 1984 and 1994 were studied with the aid of remote sensing & GIS techniques. The results showed that great changes took place in land use, particularly reflected by the noticeable decrease in area of cultivated land and increase in non-agricultural landuse (e.g. urbanization, highways, industry, and fishing ponds, etc.). Building up farmland quality, yielding-farmland to lakes, intensifying land arrangement, and reasonably controlling scales of landuse for construction are regarded as workable countermeasures for addressing the issue of land use in Suzhou.