In April 2021, 15 Chinese Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) migrating from XiShuangBanNa all the way north to Kunming City have attracted worldwide attention. Analysis of land use changes in the distribution area of the Asian elephants in China, the relationship between supply and demand of ecosystem services and the distribution of Asian elephants is of great significance for the protection of Asian elephants and the enhancement of local residents' well-being. This paper adopted the method of equivalent value factor per unit ecosystem area and demand model for ecosystem services to calculate the supply value and demand index of ecosystem services in the distribution area of Chinese Asian elephants in 1990, 2005 and 2015, and succeeded in matching four models for ecosystem services supply and demand through spatial standardization to explore the supply and demand pattern of preferred distribution of Asian elephants in China. The results demonstrate that forestland, grassland and arable land are the most important land use types. In 1990-2015, the rate of change of the three land uses types were +1.09%, -4.82%, and -4.86%. The total value of ecosystem supply was 610.855 billion yuan (CNY) in 1990, 743.441 billion yuan (CNY) in 2005, and 1,397.337 billion yuan (CNY) in 2015; the demand for ecosystem services continued to surge, and the overall distribution pattern illustrate a tendency of being high in the middle and low in all sides. The Asian elephants were located in high supply-high demand, high supply-low demand areas, and were increasingly tending to move towards high supply-high demand areas.