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TOptimization of regional landscape pattern is significant for improving function and value of ecosystem, and restraining the expansion of urban layout. Taking Chengdu City for example, this paper applied RS and GIS techniques, landscape indexes and ecological service function evaluation to further analyze the temporal and spatial characteristics of landscape pattern and spatial differences of regional ecologjcal functions, and on this basis, identified the spatial distribution of ecological source lands. Based on the long-term objective of building Chengdu into a modern garden city, this paper applied the accumulative cost distance model and introduced garden city theory to construct regional ecological corridors and ecological nodes, and explored the approaches of optimizing landscape pattern of modern garden city. The results showed that a great deal of arable land has been transferred to construction land in the urbanization; intensity of regional ecological functions showed obvious spatial differences; ecological source lands were mainly distributed in the Longmen Mountain, the Qionglai Mountain, the Changqiu Mountain and the Longquan Mountain; according to actual conditions of the study area, the road ecologjcal corridors, river corridors and agricultural corridors in the layout of "four rings and six radial corridors" were constructed; ecological nodes dominated by intersection, wetland and forest park were formed. This research method and results are significant references for building Chengdu into a modern garden city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]