LUCC(land use and cover changes) has been paid attention by the global changes researching scientists all along,it is one of the core projects about global change research.In this paper,we analyzed the LUCC and the driving forces in Yan River Basin from 2000 to 2010 with the aid of visual interpretation data from Landsat TM in 2000 and HJ images in 2010,and here we also used the social economic data,combining with land-use transition matrix,LUCC dynamic change calculation and field investigation.The result shows that: ⑴ The plow land decreased obviously,but the forest and high coverage grassland showed the reverse trend and the construction land showed the trend of increasing.⑵ We found that the policy of bioenvironmental recovering,economic development and adjustment of industrial structure,population explosion and the urbanization were the critical driving forces of the LUCC in the whole Yan River basin during 2000 ~ 2010.