Abstract:Ecological protection and restoration is crucial to the maintenance of national ecological security, and the challenge of national spatial planning is to scientifically and rationally determine the key ecological protection and restoration areas. Taking the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle as the study area, and the 2020 land use type data as the basic data, the MSPA-InVEST-Conefor research model was utilized to screen the ecological source areas, and the MCR model was adopted to construct the resistance surface in order to extract the ecological corridors, which together constituted the basic ecological security pattern. The ecological source areas and ecological corridors together constituted the basic ecological security pattern. Based on the circuit theory, the ecological pinch points, ecological obstacle points and ecological break points were extracted, and finally, the key areas for ecological protection and restoration were identified by the hierarchical method and superposition analysis. The results showed that the total area of ecological source area was 27363.30km2, accounting for 14.50% of the total area of the whole region;there were 62 ecological corridors, with a total length of 5090.92km;the total area of ecological pinch points was 2260.58km2, of which there were 196 level 1 ecological pinch points;the total area of ecological obstacles was 4555.50km2, of which there were 124 level 1 ecological obstacles;and there were 1154 breakpoints, including 138 railroad breakpoints, 557 highway breakpoints and 459 main road breakpoints. Based on the extracted and identified spatial elements, combined with the natural conditions and relevant policies, the ecological security pattern of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Circle was constructed with“four zones”, “four screens” and “six corridors”. Targeted ecological protection and restoration strategies were proposed according to the key areas of ecological protection and restoration to promote the self-regulation and restoration of the ecosystem, which can provide a reference basis for the benign development of the ecosystem.