Abstract: The selection of compensation pattern is one of the most important processes in the design of economic compensation for cultivated land preservation mechanism, which would also contribute to the achievement of cultivated land preservation and the sustainability of the project. On the other hand, from the perspective of farmers in the project area, the selection of compensation pattern would bring important impact on their enthusiasm of agricultural production activities and the improvement of welfare. Besides,from a national perspective, as a typical pilot area of economic compensation for cultivated land preservation in China, Chengdu's experience in economic compensation for cultivated land preservation would exert important significance for the promotion of this scheme in other areas. So, through there search of farmers' reaction to the policy in Chengdu, we can provide a reference for improving the efficiency of economic compensation for cultivated land preservation scheme. In this paper, based on the investigation of 223 households in Shuangliu and Congzhou areas, two important districts in central Chengdu, the multinomial logistic model (MNL) was used to analyze the preference and the factors offarmers' behavior when they participated in the economic compensation for cultivated land preservationscheme, and farmers' characteristics, households' characteristics, agricultural production characteristics and farmers' perception characteristics were chosen as four main independent variables to measure thedegree of influence on the compensation pattern. The conclusions are as follows: 1) Farmers have astrong preference for the monetary compensation and endowment or agricultural insurance compensation,which account for 47.4% and 39.6% of the total samples respectively, because they think these twopatterns are more convenient and securer than other patterns. Comparatively, the inclination to other patterns is relatively weak, such as the material compensation, technological ( intelligence )compensation, policy compensation and so on, which only accounts for 13% of all the samples. 2) The multinomial logistic model result shows that, farmers' selection preference changes with the attribute of their educational level, age, economic conditions, agricultural production characteristics and their perception for the scheme. Other factors such as the population structure, number of farming and off-farmlabors, arable land size, economics and the proportion of non-agricultural income all have significant influence on the selection of compensation pattern. However, farmers' perception for agricultural policyand their understanding of farmland ecological function are not significant in the model. 3) Farmers' features of land transfer have important effects on the choice of compensation pattern. That is to say,farmers, who are involved in land transfer, have a stronger preference to the endowment insurance compensation pattern, for the reason that they think endowment insurance compensation pattern is more sustainable and affordable when they get old.