Abstract: The dynamic characteristics and evolution trend of land use are of great significance to urban construction and planning. Based on the remote sensing data of land use in 2010, 2015 and 2020, this paper conducted supervised classification according to the nearest neighbor method, and analyzed the temporal, fabric and focus change characteristics of land use in Zhengzhou City in recent 10 years through land use transfer matrix, focus model and measurement model. The results showed that :(1) the intensity and characteristics of land use change in different stages differed significantly from time scale. The use of construction land continued to increase and the cultivated land continued to decrease from 2010 to 2020. The area of forestland and water decreased in different degrees from 2010 to 2015, but increased significantly from 2015 to 2020. (2) in the terms of land transfer, most of cultivated land was converted into construction land and forestland, while a small part into water from 2015 to 2020. (3) According to the focus model analysis, the change trend of the focus of all kinds of land use in Zhengzhou City from 2010 to 2020 mainly shows that the government shifted the land use focus of construction land to the east, forestland to the northwest, cultivated land to the southeast, and water area to the east over time, indicating that Zhengzhou City has been in an eastward development trend from 2010 to 2020, and the cultivated land space has been further compressed towards the urban edge. On this basis, the main driving factors of land use change in Zhengzhou City is discussed as economic activities and administrative decision-making.