Being the uppermost productive material and the most direct object for farmers, cultivated land is one of the basic factors consisting of the comprehensive ability of crop production. The loss of the amount of cultivated land includes not only the dominant loss caused by the absolute reduction in quantity, but also the recessive loss caused by the whole quality decrease. The recessive loss of our cultivated land since 1996 was studied by using the standard coefficient method. And the causes for the recessive loss were analyzed as well.