Abstract:The assessment of Ecosystem Services(ES) is a relatively new scientific methodology, and it can offer a possible approach to the palliation and prevention of complex ecological problems caused by human activities and also helpful to the resolution of conflicts arising from land-use questions. Since Ecosystem Services were launched as a major conceptual tool in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA, 2005), interest in them has been increasing rapidly. Despite the scientific as well as economic and political enthusiasm for the approach, only few case studies have as yet been published. We studied the interface between Ecosystem Services and landscape or land use planning in Ganzhou district of Zhangye city, in western Gansu province, integrating ES and land use is our core object. In the article, we present a visualization methodology and various data which can be used in applied research on Ecosystem Services. Firstly, we classify the Ecosystem Services offered by various biotopes and land use types of the study area, and then examine the effects of different land-use types and forms on the provision of ESs. On the basis of our results, we discuss the uncertainty of data and method, and suggest possible advantage and disadvantage of the approach in case studies. The results show that: 1) The four types of ES production capacity values were shown to: Cultural Services>Supporting Services>Regulating service>Provisioning services at two scales of the irrigated and Ganzhou District; 2) From 2000 to 2009, the four types of ES supply were decreasing, at the same time, urban land use and road network construction which driven by human activities were rapidly increasing, and the whole oasis of agricultural area had exploited overly; 3) The approach developed in this study is highly workable and reliable, and the difficult work is analysis of multi-disciplinary data and knowledge. This study may have some implications for the ES assessment of other zones.