In order to reveal the change law of land structure in recent years and the future land use structure in urban Tangshan, an analysis of the rules is conducted by applying such information theory as information entropy, equilibrium degree and dominance degree to nine types of land in urban Tangshan from 1998 to 2007. Then principal component analysis and SPSS are used to analyze the driving forces and the impact of various factors on land use structure. Finally, land use structure in 2012 and 2017 is predicted through Markov models.