Abstract:With the rapid development of urbanization, the regional landscapes of many cities and regions in China are gradually disappearing, and the landscapes are converging. Under the current goal of building a livable environment, how to protect and inherit these unique regional landscapes has become an urgent problem. This study starts by exploring the path of regional landscape creation, taking the Gandel River Valley in Wuhai, a semi-arid region in the north, as an example, and carries out in-depth analyses and interpretations of the natural and humanistic regional landscape characteristics of the study area through the combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses of the landscape characteristics. Three indicator layers of topography and geomorphology, natural environment, and humanistic activities are extracted from the results of the preliminary qualitative studies. Based on the ArcGIS, we evaluate and analyze the regional landscape characteristics of the site and finally combine the qualitative and quantitative assessment results to propose a regional landscape construction strategy for river valleys in the northern arid desert region. This study aims to construct a regional landscape construction path to promote the high-quality development of urban and rural human settlements and provide relevant reference for protecting regional landscapes in similar areas.