The research of Land ecological security pattern not only can provide a new thinking of effectively solving regional ecological security problems including soil and water loss, soil degradation, desertification, but also has an important realistic meanings for improving the safety and sustainability of land use ecosystem. In this paper, the present research status and some recent advances in the land use ecological security assessment, land use pattern based on ecology, optimization method of land ecological pattern are reviewed, and future research directions are discussed. In the near term, the priority research areas are:（1）Method and model of ecological security assessment for ecological security pattern; （2）Land ecological security pattern of different ecological friable areas; (3) Spatial explicit model of land ecological security pattern; (4) Scenario simulation of regional land ecological pattern.