In order to explore the characteristics of land use/land cover change (LUCC) and spatial-temporal change of vegetation cover,we choose land use database to compare the different year of landscape patterns by matrix analysis method.Based on 16-day composite MODIS NDVI data,we calculated the trend of the vegetation cover evolution in Hulunbeier steppe during 2000~2013 by linear regression.The results showed that 1) The land types in the study area were mainly grassland and forestland,which accounted for around 80% of total area;2) In 14 years,the largest increased type was unused land,which was transferred mainly from grassland,and the largest decreased type was arable land,which mainly transferred to grassland;3) Vegetation coverage was generally stable and kept an increasing trend,in which,the area of moderate and high coverage accounted for the highest proportion (53 635.08 km2);4)The area where the change trend of vegetation coverage was at an improving state concentrated in the central and western regions,and the regions with a degraded trend distributed in the east.The areas under significant degradation distributed in Hailar and its north and south neighboring parts.