The only way to advance the agricultural modernization is to moderate the land scale management. The fundamental conditions of the land scale management are satisfied in the Hebei plain area. But there are some problems to be solved, such as the land fragmentation, the poor farmland infrastructure, especially, the irrigation facilities, and the limited capacity of the land transfer to further promote the scale operation. Therefore, it is desirable to analyze the land scale management states, the transformation characteristics and its drive force. It is shown that the land scale management goes from the land transfer concentration stage into the scale management and social service transition stage and the scale management form goes from the pure land transfer to the coexistence of the land transfer and the land trusteeship. The drive force is the development of the agricultural productive forces, the interests of the operating subjects and the service system of the agricultural production. Some suggestions for the present stage are made: The establishing of the land swap mechanism， the linkage of the land transfer and the land improvement, and the driving scale operation with the land trusteeship.

major grain-producing area  /  land scale management  /  land transfer