The intensive cultivated land use concerns to the country food security. This paper was a systematical review and prospect on this field which is necessary and helpful in understanding the focuses, insufficiency and further direction. This paper suggested that (1) in the research perspective, it should emphasize the multi-disciplinary research and conduct positively the research on ecological intensive cultivated land use; (2) in the research scale, it should strengthen the multi-level and sub-regions, especially at the large scale region; (3) in the research content, it should stress the evaluation index system, the drive mechanism, the spatial and temporal change and the future change tendency of intensive cultivated land use; (4) in the research method, it should intensify further the quantitative research and introduce modern technology such as GIS, RS and effective mathematical models into the deep evaluation.