Massive sloping land conversion(MSLC)program in China is one of the biggest government sponsored and managed projects.Although many achievements have been reached,some challenges still exist.Using data from a sur- vey of 2005 rural households in Beichuan county,Sichuan province,we carried out analysis of the targeting of the project (whether the farmlands involved in the project meet the criteria of MSLC)by logistic regression models.Based on the results from our analysis,the targeting of the project turned out to be not very specific.Therefore,we proposed an effec- tive farmland selection index system for the MSLC program in China.