Abstract: Sand-dust weather can be divided into dust storm, sand blowing and dust haze. The sources of sand-dust during sand blowing weather mainly come from Beijing outskirts. For effectively combating sand blowing in Beijing region, we have finished a series of field observations of sand blowing on different utilizing land types in Beijing outskirts during the spring of 2003 and 2004. At the same time, soil samples of each type of land were collected, and the samples were analyzed in the lab later. The primary conclusion is that wind velocity to blow sand on bare land surface in Beijing outskirts is about 6m/s, and the characteristics of sand blowing are quite different to each land using type. Under the condition of the same wind velocity, sand blowing intensity of each type of land in the order of degree is ploughed land, land with crop residue, orchard land, unused land, forest land and grassland. Different land use types have different sand blowing properties, which indicates that adjusting land use structure is an important method to control sand blowing in Beijing.